Marseille : and one beautiful night the internet was cut off
[Update: According to specialized sites of the industry, this coordinated sabotage struck not only several international cables in Marseille (the Amsterdam-Paris-Lyon-Marseille line, the line coming from Barcelona and the one going to Milan), but also another one in Aix-en-Provence, affecting the delivery of internet via the submarine cables which leave the port of Marseille to serve Asia.
If the national press has for the moment released sparse information so as not to sound the alarm and avoid giving bad ideas, several impacted Internet operators have nevertheless had to publish “incident tickets” following these sabotages. Cogent (North American manager of huge fiber optic networks carrying 17% of the world’s Internet traffic) said for example that one of the attacks occurred “on a private site of the water company of Marseille, which is also a major hub for fiber cables for various operators”, and the French data center manager OVH said in particular that “the cut has impacted the link between Marseille and Singapore” by “saturating all the Internet traffic coming from the United States and Europe” to this state…]
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