- A major consequence of the US-Iran war? A potential crisis on the Internet across the world, including India
- Could war shut down the internet? Increased threat to undersea cables
- US-Iran Conflict Intensifies; Internet services around the world are at risk
The ongoing war between the US and Iran has now entered its third week. This is already affecting oil and gas cylinders. But now it is being predicted that the war going on between the two countries may affect the internet as well. At the bottom of the sea there are some hopeful cables that provide internet not only to the Middle East but to the whole world. If these cables are affected, the internet can be shut down all over the world.
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Last week, Meta Company told Bloomberg that it had halted part of its 2Africa project. The project is considered to be very important for expanding internet connectivity in Africa and the Gulf regions. It consisted of a 45,000 km underwater cable system designed to expand internet connectivity. However, this project has been suspended and a portion of the cable has been affected. The segment passes through landing stations in Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia. (Photo Courtesy – Pinterest)
Alcatel Submarine Networks, the French co-owned company responsible for laying the cable, has issued instructions to its customers to prepare for emergencies. According to a Bloomberg report, the company also reported that its installation vessel, the ‘Île de Baatz’, is stranded off the coast of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
It is said that more than 95% of the world’s internet traffic is carried through hundreds of fiber optics cables laid on the seabed under the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. That means all your digital activities like email, video calls, cloud services, financial transactions, streaming videos depend on cables. These cables connect the massive data centers set up in the Gulf region by companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google to billions of users around the world. So if war affects these cables, it can affect the entire world. Internet may be disrupted in many other countries including India.
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Last year, a broken cable in the Red Sea disrupted internet services in India, Pakistan and some countries in the Middle East. This had a great effect on the citizens. It is very important to take care so that a similar situation does not arise again.
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