European Undersea Cables Damaged
The issue started on Wednesday night. An undersea cable in south France resulted in widespread internet connectivity issues. Reports claim that at least three fiber cables were severed at 20:30 (UTC), making Internet access slower for users in Europe, Asia, and the United States. The good part is that the Cloud companies quickly worked to fix the issue. According to a report by cloud security company Zscaler, the unexpected undersea cable damage resulted in packet loss and an increased latency rate for websites and applications traversing the impacted paths. The company has identified three broken links:
Marseille-Lyon Marseille-Milan Marseille-Barcelona.
Moreover, Zscaler made routing adjustments to internet traffic where it was possible in order to mitigate the issue. However, in some places, actions were hindered by app and content providers still using the severed links. In addition to that, Zscaler confirmed that workers had fixed one of the affected links that was resulting in a drop in packet loss and reduced latency for websites and internet applications. However, the remaining links were confirmed severed through direct fiber testing. The search operations are still finding the damaged points in the undersea cable. The good piece of info is that Internet connectivity is slowly returning to normal. Moreover, the investigations are ongoing locally and globally. Meanwhile, unknown undersea cable damage in the United Kingdom sparked wild speculation that the cut lines might involve unknown Russian saboteurs. Also Read: Pakistan Customs Stops Smuggling Of iPhones & Macbooks Worth Rs. 50 Million (phoneworld.com.pk)
