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Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic
- vb-8448 3y agoI wonder if this is somehow related with meta's down.
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- ortusdux 3y agoThe cut happened last week, so probably not.
- bdamm 3y agoAs I understand it, the problem is not so much that they have been damaged, but rather that they have been damaged inside the combat zone and so repair craft are not likely to enter the area, thus the damage will remain.
- edhelas 3y agoAnd suddenly most of the World discover that the Internet is "just a bunch of cables connected together".
- 0xDECEA5ED 3y agoIt's a series of tubes!
- rany_ 3y agoIs this related to the Meta outage? Edit: answering myself here, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605925 says that this actually happened a week ago but the media reports are just very delayed. Basically it is actually unrelated.
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- toast0 3y agoFYI, this cut happened last week, just took a while to get reported in mainstream media. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/at-least-one-subsea-fiber-cable-damaged-in-the-red-sea-some-reports-blame-houthi-rebels/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/at-least-one-subs...
- vkaku 3y agoThat whole region is full on conflict. Be prepared for more Internet links to be severed. Always better to double on Pacific, Atlantic plus Indian Ocean routes.