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NATO funds project to reroute internet via satellites if undersea cables are cut | The cables are likely targets in the event of a military crisis
Increasing geopolitical tensions have raised concerns that countries such as Russia, China, and North Korea could target subsea cables during a military crisis. Such a thing is...
To prepare for the worst, NATO is helping to finance a project that will investigate a way of keeping the internet running should the cables be sabotaged: rerouting data through satellites. Such a thing is not unprecedented; Yemeni Houthi rebels were suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic in February. Bloomberg reports that researchers, including academics from the US, Iceland, Sweden, and Switzerland, want to develop a way of seamlessly rerouting internet traffic from subsea cables to satellite systems in the event of an attack or damage from natural disasters.
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