Actually this whole submarine cable thing has geo-politics under its hood. We cannot deny the fact and should not evade the reasons behind it.

I know it's unpleasant to bring it up but we can't just pretend nothing is going on. The SEA-ME-WE cabling project openly rejected and booted China despite Huawei Marine initially winning the tender fairly to build and supply them the cabling project for them out of security threat concerns.

Should China, Central Asia and Russia provide similar response when these same people return and asked for participation in the Trans-Siberia project?

Don't just brush us away and ask this to be taken to RWI or suggest impossible things to your internet subscribers/consumers.

Since you asked so how,

The message is very clear from China and the Far East side to Bharat South Asia/ME. Try anything funny in future with any extortion we can equally respond to cut you out as well from Pacific side via landings on Changi East side Singapore going into the Far East/Pacific.

Tuas(West Side): Bharat/ME
Changi(East Side): China/Japan/Pacific

They won't be deterred because links to Europe and East Coast USA is secured.

As you can see with the charts now, there is almost no interruption to European-Far East Asia(FEA) to China cities including South Korea and Japan.



Shanghai/Seoul/Tokyo are enjoying healthier latency to Europe than ASEAN now.

Links as you mentioned: India Asia Xpress (IAX), PEACE Cable are more benefiting to India accessing Far East Asia than the other way around. Easily it can be taken down but it'll not bring much issues to both Beijing and Tokyo because they have their direct links to both EUROPE and US secured via Trans-Siberia/Pacific route.

The ones suffering now is the Indo-China/ASEAN region with countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, SG, Thailand even as far as HK links to Europe is crawling.

South Asia actually needs ASEAN more than the Far East needs them, one to get to the Pacific via SG transit to reach US while the other needs to reach EU.

Alternatively India will have to go through EU/Africa continent then only they can traverse across the Atlantic.

On the other hand Beijing/Seoul/Tokyo already has their Trans Siberia backup on bypass them to reach EU.

So yeah most affected regions will be ASEAN+HK+Taiwan which relies on a lot on the Indian Ocean links to reach EU.

Last weekend days back someone said from insiders need another 10-13 days. That's another 2 weeks. We shall see at the end of next week.

Don't see a strategic reason for China to do this since even now with the cable severed, the Far East Asia(FEA) links to Europe is still enjoying good connectivity.

If they wanted to sabotage, the links they'd cut off the links linking South Asia/ME to Europe instead that'll bring even a far worst impact. They could also cut off East side of the cables that links Pacific side with their dominance over the South China Sea via East Singapore Changi side.

All things considered the ones who are victims now are South East Asia which is so dependent on the route Indian Ocean/ME route to Europe. There is also no way for ME/South Asia to get to Japan/Korea/HK other than to take the "other" way round the globe via Africa-Atlantic Ocean-Pacific Ocean to reach FEA.

For China/S.Korea/Japan, they've safeguarded their route to EU & America. Cutting off the Indian Ocean Route will only impact their South Asia/Africa traffic which is insignificant compared to the earlier destinations.

There's already some improvements observed today and European links are slowly recovering.

Almost back to normal.

Stay tuned.

Ooops no improvement yet with TIME?

Most SG major carriers are already getting <220ms to Amsterdam today. It's normalizing now.

Server Source:
DataPacket Telecom: https://www.datapacket.com/looking-glass
OVH Roubaix Paris: rbx.proof.ovh.net

DataPacket Amsterdam


DataPacket Frankfurt


OVH Roubaix Paris

Thanks for the update, it is indeed still not recovered yet. EU connections are exceptionally slow today. The latency in fact even increased further today by some 20-30ms from the usual average 260ms to somewhere now close to 300ms for major servers such as M247 and DataPacket.

This is unrelated but the African region is now seeing surges in terrorism activities causing even further major disruptions to more undersea cables.

African Countries Hit by Major Internet Outage
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202405/14/W...fc043c7104.html



East Africa Outages Stir Fears over Africa’s Internet Vulnerabilities
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/east-africa-outa...-134843114.html

It's already almost a month since the EU connection went down, just about 7 days ago another major breakdown occurred in Africa.