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Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

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122 points hampus | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 22:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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anonymousDan ◴[20 Nov 24 23:08 UTC] No.42199097[source]▶
One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
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booi ◴[20 Nov 24 23:33 UTC] No.42199277[source]▶
Generally it can be fixed in days. They raise it from the sea floor and splice in a new cable section.
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mistyvales ◴[20 Nov 24 23:42 UTC] No.42199352[source]▶
Crazy that you can splice optical cable..
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UltraSane ◴[21 Nov 24 00:14 UTC] No.42199622[source]▶
They actually have very cool devices that will automatically align and fuse two fibers and estimate the loss of the bond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_C0XLLyR0

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1. ahnick ◴[21 Nov 24 02:03 UTC] No.42200329[source]▶
how much do one of those bad boys cost?
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2. UltraSane ◴[21 Nov 24 03:17 UTC] No.42200756[source]▶
The cheapest ones are surprisingly cheap at less than $1,000 and the highest end ones are $10,000