Commercial shipping likely cut Red Sea cables that disrupted internet access, experts say

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Probably a ship Cut the cables in the Red Sea Experts, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in a statement on Tuesday, which disrupts internet access, the lines of another event to break them for a year, he said.

The International Cable Protection Committee told Associated Press through the Dar Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the southern mouth of the Red Sea, which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.

During the weekend, officials in more than one country described the affected cables as South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4, India-Middle East-West Europe and Falcon GCX cables. Doug Madory, the Internet Analysis Director at the Urban company, said that on Tuesday, this list was expanded to include the European Age Passage Cable.

The first reporting claimed that the deduction took place on the coast of Saudi Arabia, and that there was nothing that authorities in the kingdom did not accept or manage cables. This has broken internet access to Asia and Middle Eastern countries.

“Early independent analysis shows that the possible cause of the damage is a commercial transportation activity in the region, Jo “The damage to submarine cables, one of the drifting anchors, constitutes approximately 30% of the events representing about 60 errors each year.”

Madory also told the EP to the EP, the assumption of a commercial ship has lowered the anchor and dragged it into four cables and broke the connections. Cabling in the Red Sea may be at a shallow depth, which makes it easier for it to drag it to an diameter.

With submarine cables, satellite connections and black -based cables, it is one of the backbone of the internet. Typically, internet service providers have multiple access points, and if one fails, it reappears the traffic, but can slow down access to users.

However, re -orientation of traffic may cause delay or delay for internet users. Madory, Africa, Asia and the Middle East at least 10 countries are affected by the cable section, he said. Among these nations were India, Pakistan and United Arab Emirates.

Cable security, Yemen’s Houthi rebels’ attacks on ships were also concerned Israel-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip. At the beginning of 2024, Yemen’s internationally accepted exile government claimed that Houthis plans to attack submarine cables. He was cut a few later, dragging his anchor by a ship that was probably attacked by Houthis, but The rebels refused to be responsible.