submarine cables

Microsoft’s March 2024 Azure outage in South Africa showed why a network can survive a cable failure and still be in a deteriorating state: the February Red Sea cuts had already consumed enough spare capacity that a later West African cable incident and an ordinary router-optic failure pushed...

Internet users across South Asia, the Gulf and parts of the Middle East endured slow, jittery connections and higher cloud latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut, forcing major carriers and cloud operators to reroute traffic, rebalance capacity and...