Greater resilience needed for submarine cable routes

Several high-profile outages of subsea cables this year have caused major interruptions to global internet traffic and led to cable network providers to consider how to instill greater resilience in their networks. These are existential questions for operators, but something that gets little discussion until things go majorly wrong, and so MNOs should be evaluating their emergency traffic action plans. Another major outage is around the corner, and being on the ground at the Capacity Europe event highlighted these risks. Damage to connections to the Middle East and Africa are reported to have forced 30% of internet traffic from Europe to Asia to be rerouted onto terrestrial or satellite networks – with impacts on quality and latency of traffic. The…