In August 2021, the Australia–Singapore Cable was damaged off Perth after the container ship Maersk Surabaya allegedly dragged its anchor through the protection zone.
What appears to have kept Australia’s cables relatively safe in practice, then, is not primarily active enforcement of the zones but redundancy and self-interest elsewhere in the system.
The US tops TRG Datacenters’ internet outage preparedness ranking through dense cable and exchange capacity. The study reviewed nearly 100 countries on submarine cable counts, internet exchange points, cybersecurity readiness, electricity access, and i…
Governments around the world are asking critical questions about national security and submarine cables, seeking to protect this critical infrastructure and mitigate risk.
The millions of kilometers of fiber optic cable lying on the ocean floor have traditionally been invisible assets—laid once and forgotten until something breaks. But Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology is transforming this dark infra…
While new submarine cable systems are being built to expand global internet capacity, the maintenance of submarine cables has not seen the investment required to maintain these systems.
Submarine cables carry over 99% of international data traffic and face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that extend far beyond traditional network security.
In this episode of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet podcast, Fe…
There is no shortage of headlines about high-profile cable breaks, particularly around the Baltic Sea and Taiwan. But it’s worth remembering that where there have been faults, there have also been repairs.
In this episode of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet podcast, FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington joins the show for a deep dive into the evolving world of spectrum allocation, broadband infrastructure, submarine cable policy, and cyb…
