Last month, submarine cables in the Red Sea were mysteriously severed, disrupting internet service in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This hardly registered in America, but it should have. Targeted ...

The Microsoft Company has sorted out the problem of theAzure cloud platform following the cut off of several subsea cables in the Red Sea that led to high latency and outages in services by customers ...

The global internet is connected by roughly 570 fiber optic cables on the seabed. Recent breaks have industry watchers questioning the resiliency and security of these subsea cables. In late 2024 and ...

Subsea cable repairs are not an easy fix, according to The Internet Report podcast. For one, it's never a straightforward (or one-size-fits-all) task. The process itself is highly complex, typically ...

Crew members aboard a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane patrolling over the Baltic Sea to protect undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage, on Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/John Leicester, ...

Europe’s subsea cable infrastructure, the backbone of its digital economy and energy transition, is facing mounting risks from geopolitical tension, climate impacts, and lack of preparedness. In a ...

The Red Sea is a major artery of the global Internet. More than a dozen subsea cables pass through it connecting Europe to the Middle East, Africa, and APAC, transporting huge swathes of data traffic.

Securing the world’s subsea arteries demands a comprehensive global architecture that links national and regional efforts with international ones and modernizes the legal and institutional regime. The ...

Swedish authorities said Friday they were investigating suspected damage to an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, following a string of incidents experts believe are acts of sabotage orchestrated by ...