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Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

This starts to look coordinated:
"Following Finnish media reports that an unexplained failure of an undersea telecommunications cable has disrupted communication services between Finland and Germany, Telia’s Chief Technology Officer Andrius Šemeškevičius says that the communications cable between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged." (via @ErikJonker)
lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2

lrt.lt · Undersea cable between Lithuania and Sweden damaged – TeliaBy LRT.lt, LRT TV

#Telegeography estimates the global international #routing #bandwidth to be at around 5Pbps. The largest growing market is #Africa with a compound annual growth of almost 50% between 2019 to 2023. Great to see how they are slowly catching up and having more growth than any other region globally. The global average lies somewhere between 35-40%.

Furthermore, they show how some hyper-giant cloud and content providers having the lion's share of sub-nautical bandwidth.

A brief, but very interesting read I recommend to everyone!

blog.telegeography.com/used-in

blog.telegeography.comUsed International Bandwidth Reaches New HeightsAggregate demand more than tripled between 2019 and 2023 to reach an eye-popping 5 Pbps.

WEBINAIRE AVR 11 « Récente Panne des Câbles sous-marins et Résilience de l’Internet en Afrique »

Le jeudi 11 avril 2024, le chapitre de Burkina Faso de l'Internet Society, en collaboration avec les chapitres du Bénin, du Cameroun, de la Côte d'Ivoire, de la Guinée, du Niger et du Togo, organise un webinaire « Récente Panne des Câbles sous-marins et Résilience de l'Internet en Afrique ».

Le 14 mars 2024, de

isoc.live/17632/

, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, presented the findings of the ‘Study on the Implementation of in Sri Lanka and the Region’ in a workshop held in .
With the generous support of @AuswaertigesAmt
➡️ mpfpr.de/2023/11/16/workshop-o
and

The innovative #SUBMERSE project will leverage existing #subsea #infrastructure for exciting new fields of #research.

Using existing #submarine cables already used by the research & education networking community, SUBMERSE and its partners can monitor the Earth and its systems.

Join us as we dive into the future of ocean exploration and research. Read more at 👉 submerse.eu

#earthscience #oceanography #seismology #volcanology #earlywarningsystems #SubmarineCables #network @nordunet