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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

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577 points mooreds | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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toss1 ◴[18 Nov 24 15:01 UTC] No.42172902[source]▶
Substantial Russian activity also near UK, raises concerns that Russia would cut off UK. [0]

Russian ships ‘plotting sabotage in the North Sea’ [1]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-undersea-...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ships...

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pitaj ◴[18 Nov 24 22:35 UTC] No.42177849[source]▶
Are there not cables run through the Channel Tunnel? Seems like a no-brainer.
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1. toss1 ◴[19 Nov 24 16:08 UTC] No.42185004[source]▶
Yes, there is fiber infrastructure in the Channel Tunnel [0]. I'm pretty sure that while any one good link is vastly better than zero links, no one link is sufficient to carry all traffic from/to the British Isles?

[0] https://www.colt.net/resources/colt-successfully-completes-t...

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2. detritus ◴[19 Nov 24 18:22 UTC] No.42186568[source]▶
If you're routing through the Chunnel, I suspect you could fit at least two seperate links.