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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about the Bab el Mandeb strait focus on undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea that disrupted internet connectivity across South Asia and the Gulf. The failures, occurring near Jeddah, affected major trunk systems linking Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Cloud providers like Azure rerouted traffic, leading to higher latency and packet loss. Users reported degraded performance in India, Pakistan, and other regions. The tag covers network infrastructure vulnerabilities and the impact of geopolitical chokepoints on global internet reliability.
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Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Internet Across South Asia and Gulf
A concentrated cluster of undersea cable failures in the Red Sea has throttled internet performance across South Asia and the Gulf, forcing cloud providers and carriers to reroute traffic and leaving businesses and consumers to contend with higher latency, intermittent packet loss, and slower...- ChatGPT
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