The undersea cables that keep the internet alive:Map

hawki · Jan 27, 2018

FYI:

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-...les-that-russians-could-cut-2017-12?r=UK&IR=T

Krusty · Jan 27, 2018

I can't see any mention of a cable between Australia and Singapore being cut and in the process of being repaired for the second time recently.

https://www.itwire.com/business-tec...etween-australia-and-singapore-cut-again.html

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/...ingapore-submarine-cable-connection-cut-again

Minimalist · Jan 25, 2019

Undersea cable damage wipes out most Internet access in Tonga islands

The island nation of Tonga lost its primary connection to the Internet when an undersea fiber cable was damaged Sunday, forcing Tonga to rely on a satellite dish while the country waits for a repair ship to arrive, news reports say.

The outage could last a week or more.
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https://arstechnica.com/information...es-out-most-internet-access-in-tonga-islands/

guest · Feb 3, 2019

Tonga has cable connection to outside world restored
February 3, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/tonga-has-cable-connection-to-outside-world-restored/

Tonga's two-week period without a working subsea cable to Fiji has ended.

The cable had originally fallen over on January 20, and a second fault was subsequently found; however, RadioNZ reported on Saturday that the connection to the main island has been restored.

On Friday afternoon, the Tongan government had said it would take up to 18 hours to splice the cable before services would resume.
By Saturday evening, it was expected that Tonga's telcos would be back using the cable connection.
It was also reported that Tonga Cable is looking into a second cable connection to the Pacific nation.
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guest · Feb 3, 2019

Krusty said: ↑

I can't see any mention of a cable between Australia and Singapore being cut and in the process of being repaired for the second time recently.

https://www.itwire.com/business-tec...etween-australia-and-singapore-cut-again.html

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/...ingapore-submarine-cable-connection-cut-again
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Sharks are nasty , they bite cables just to make us mad

Osaban · Feb 3, 2019

Always demonizing Russia, absolutely insane...

Minimalist · Aug 29, 2019

National security concerns threaten US-China undersea cable: WSJ

USofficials are seeking to block an undersea cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, backed by Google, Facebook and a Chinese partner, over national-security concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nati...s-threaten-us-china-undersea-cable-wsj-530294

Minimalist · Sep 11, 2019

Could hackers gain a global ‘kill click’?

The internet cables that connect the world are vulnerable to cyberattacks and Congress wants to know who’s in charge of protecting them.

There is no clear answer for its members, however.
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https://www.fifthdomain.com/congress/capitol-hill/2019/09/11/could-hackers-gain-a-global-kill-click/

guest · Jan 14, 2020

Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage
The fragility of global internet infrastructure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect
January 13, 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/yemen-internet-blackout-undersea-cable/

Last week, the internet went dark for Yemen and its 28 million citizens. It's still not fully back today. In fact, the entire Red Sea region has dealt with slow to nonexistent connectivity since the severing of a single submarine cable on Thursday.
The cables naturally suffer breaks and cuts given those harsh conditions, but usually multiple cables serve each area to create redundancies and contingencies for when one line goes down.

Even under ideal circumstances, it can take weeks to repair a cut cable. Contractors must dispatch a specially equipped ship to the impacted region, run a special hook along the sea floor, pull up the cable in the right spot, and make the repair before throwing the cable back down into the depths.

"The whole process looks a lot like it did in the 1860s when we first started laying submarine cable," Oracle's Madory says.
The current situation in the Red Sea region joins a slew of other outages and failures that have resulted from damaged submarine cables.
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guest · Feb 8, 2020

Google and Facebook turn their backs on undersea cable to China
Tech giants’ high-speed internet link to Hong Kong has become politically toxic
February 6, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/06/google-and-facebook-turn-their-backs-on-undersea-cable-to-china/

Google and Facebook seem to have resigned themselves to losing part of the longest and highest profile internet cable they have invested in to date. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission last week, the two companies requested permission to activate the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) between the US and the Philippines and Taiwan, leaving its controversial Hong Kong and Chinese sections dormant.

Google and Facebook saw the writing on the wall. On January 29 last week, representatives from the two companies – but not PLDC – met with FCC officials to propose a new approach. A filing, made the same day, requests permission to operate just the two PLCN fiber pairs owned by the American companies: Google’s link to Taiwan, and Facebook’s to the Philippines.

“I think stripping out the controversial [Hong Kong] link will work,” says Starosielski. “But whenever one of these projects either gets thwarted, it sends a very strong message. If even Google and Facebook can’t get a cable through, there aren’t going to be a ton of other companies advancing new cable systems between the US and China now.”
Ironically, that means that US data to and from China will continue to flow over the NCP cable controlled by China Mobile – the only company that Team Telecom and the FCC have ever turned down on national security grounds.
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guest · Jun 19, 2020

US Government To Reject Pacific Undersea Cable – Report
June 18, 2020
https://www.silicon.co.uk/networks/broadband/us-government-reject-pacific-undersea-cable-345838

The United States looks set to block an undersea cable that connects Los Angeles to Hong Kong, despite the fact that it has already been built.

The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable was funded by Google and Facebook, as well as a Chinese broadband provider called Dr. Peng Telecom & Media Group Co.
But trouble began in August 2019, when it was reported that the cable was being opposed by the US Justice Department (DoJ) because of national security concerns over its Chinese investor and the direct link to Hong Kong.
Undersea cable
This was important, as the DoJ leads a multi-agency review panel known as Team Telecom, and now according to the BBC, Team Telecom has recommended the US denies its approval.
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guest · Sep 1, 2020

Google, Facebook Dump Plans for US-Hong Kong Undersea Cable
August 31, 2020
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com...cebook-dump-plans-us-hong-kong-undersea-cable

Google and Facebook Inc. dropped plans for an undersea cable between the U.S. and Hong Kong after the Trump administration said Beijing might use the link to collect information on Americans.

But the companies quickly submitted a revised proposal that includes links to Taiwan and the Philippines, as envisioned in the application that was withdrawn on Thursday. The new filing didn’t include Hong Kong-based Pacific Light Data Communication Co., a partner in the original plan and a concern for U.S. security agencies that cited its links to mainland China’s Dr. Peng Telecom & Media Group Co.
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“We continue to work through established channels to obtain cable landing licenses for our undersea cables,” a spokesperson for Alphabet Inc.’s Google said in an email.
The Google representative said the original application “has been withdrawn, and a revised application for the U.S.-Taiwan and U.S.-Philippines portions of the system has been submitted.”
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