Telecoms Cable Break Reported Between Finland and Germany

Monday, November 18, 2024

All telecommunications running on the submarine cable have been cut off. A cybersecurity expert tells Yle that the cable break is likely to be intentional.

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... All telecommunications running on the submarine cable have been cut off. A cybersecurity expert tells Yle that the cable break is likely to be intentional.

An undersea telecommunications cable that links Finland to continental Europe has been damaged.

The C-Lion1 submarine cable, which runs between Finland and Germany, has a malfunction, according to Cinia, a majority-state-owned Finnish company that builds fibre optic networks and supplies telecommunications services.

All telecommunications running on the submarine cable have been cut off. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-18 02:02 PM | Reply

... An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut in the early hours of Monday by what was likely an external impact and a nearby link between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged.

The 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) high-speed fiber optic Helsinki-Rostock link serving data centers is damaged in the Baltic Sea east of southern Sweden, and there's a high likelihood that it's completely cut as all of its fiber connections are down, executives of its owner and operator Cinia Oy said at a news conference.

Telia Lietuva AB, Lithuania's largest communications provider, said an undersea data cable linking the Baltic nation with Sweden's Gotland island was cut Sunday. The cable was within 10-meter proximity to the Finnish cable. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-18 02:05 PM | Reply