Damage to submarine cables in the Red Sea is disrupting telecommunications networks and forcing providers to reroute as much as a quarter of traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East, including internet traffic. HGC estimates that 25% of traffic between Asia and Europe as well the Middle East has been impacted, it said in a statement Monday. Underwater cables are the invisible force driving the internet, with many funded in recent years by internet giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook parent Meta. “We have no intention of targeting sea cables providing internet to countries in the region,” he said. The company says on its website that it can send internet traffic across some 80 submarine cable systems that reach 100 countries.

Source: CNN March 04, 2024 13:18 UTC