Illegal Acquisition of Disaster Relief Optical Cables

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Policy Brief: Enhancing the Resilience of Submarine Internet

This document presents a forward-looking and optimistic approach to enhancing Internet resilience through practical and policy-driven solutions.

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International law doesn''t adequately protect undersea

Sensitive data remains safe as long as undersea cables are in good physical condition, but events such as severe sabotage—in the form of cutting

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Protection of Undersea Telecommunication Cables: Issues for Congress

In June 2023, an undersea cable serving the North Slope of Alaska was severed by naturally shifting ice, affecting internet and cell service for residents in this Arctic area. These events

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Hidden Dangers: Undersea Cables and Mitigating

As business and society become ever more reliant on critical subsea infrastructure, it creates a growing source of vulnerability. Recent sabotage attempts on cables in

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Global Internet Connectivity Is at Risk from Climate

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows

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How satellites play a role in disaster relief

Today, satellites continue to play a key role in enabling emergency first responders to implement disaster relief plans, even amidst widespread outages. And as the

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Depths of Deception: State-Backed Undersea Cable Disruptions and

In just the past 18 months, a pattern of undersea cable disruptions, 1 This refers to the physical severing of fiber-optic telecommunications cables that sit on the ocean floor, which can

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Intentional Damage To Submarine Cable Systems By

This paper examines two different legal regimes—the law of the sea and the law on the use of force—to ascertain the extent to which each applies to

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Protecting the £88m optical fibre cables industry

The UK government took a decisive step to safeguard the burgeoning £88 million optical fibre cables industry.

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Protection of Undersea Telecommunication Cables: Issues for Congress

Recent intentional and unintentional acts and natural events have damaged undersea telecommunication cables and disrupted communications. In April 2022, vandals damaged several

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ICT as an Enabler for Smart Water Management

All continents except Antarctica, and most populated islands are linked by subsea fibre optic cables which provide the foundation for the global Internet. Telecommunications cables are designed for

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Undersea cables, geoeconomics, and security in the Indo-Pacific:

How are threats to undersea cable networks evolving, and why is cable competition intensifying in the Indo-Pacific? How is the policy discourse around undersea cables changing, and

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Submarine Cable Security at Risk Amid Geopolitical Tensions &amp

Explore the rising threats to global submarine cable networks amid escalating geopolitical tensions, sabotage incidents, and limited repair capacity. Discover essential resilience strategies and

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Fiber Optics and Disaster Relief

Geomatics technology is being utilized as a proactive and reactive aid for disaster relief. Through an extensive analysis of fiber optics mapping,

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Disaster-Resilient Optical Network Survivability: A

Therefore, fault tolerant and disaster-resilient optical networks have grasped the attention of the research community and have been a critical concern

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Legal Considerations on the Protection of Subsea Cables in the

Among the different criteria for sabotage acts against subsea cables to amount to piracy, two of them represent essential obstacles: the qualification of cables as “property outside the jurisdiction of any

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Submarine Cable Protection and the Environment

Figure 1: Cable system architecture and examples of damage1. (A) Schematic of a submarine fibre-optic cable system as it transitions from the ocean to the beach manhole and landing station. From there,

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Protection of Undersea Telecommunication Cables: Issues for Congress

Recent attacks on undersea infrastructure, including the Nord Stream pipelines, has heightened concerns for cables, and spurred calls for increased protection of undersea telecommunication

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Disaster-Aware Submarine Fiber-Optic Cable Deployment for Mesh

In this study, we investigate a disaster-aware submarine fiber-optic cable deployment optimization prob-lem to minimize such expected costs in case of a disaster.

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Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters , your online source for breaking international news coverage.

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The deep-sea ''emergency service'' that keeps the

Ninety-nine percent of the world''s digital communications rely on subsea cables. Fixing them keeps us all connected – and has changed our

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Unleashing the Power of Fiber Optic Networks in Disaster Response

In conclusion, the deployment of fiber optic networks emerges as a powerful tool in disaster response and recovery. From bolstering resilience to supporting emergency services and

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Disaster resilience of optical networks: : State of the art, challenges

In this position paper, we discuss the impact on optical networks of all major classes of disaster events mentioned above, and we overview recent relevant techniques that have been

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As undersea cables break off Europe and Taiwan,

Recent cases of damage to submarine cables around the island and in Europe suggest that proving sabotage, much less holding anyone accountable,

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New measures protect UK''s £88M optical fibre cables

The Government has accepted the TRA''s recommendations to impose anti-dumping and countervailing measures on imports of optical fibre

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Policy Brief: Enhancing the Resilience of Submarine Internet

As dependence on digital services intensifies, the resilience and security of submarine cable systems are increasingly under scrutiny—particularly in light of recent outages in Africa, Tonga,

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Safeguarding Subsea Cables: Protecting Cyber Infrastructure amid

This paper addresses how the United States and its allies can more strategically compete with Chinese and Russian threats to subsea cables and reduce the vulnerability of cable

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Best Practices for Fiber Optics Disaster Recovery

The best disas­ter recovery plan is to prepare and rehearse long before the disaster hits. That means setting processes in place, training technicians on what to do and pre-positioning

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Undersea Cables are Increasingly Critical and Vulnerable

The Nord Stream pipeline attack in September 2022 highlighted the vulnerability faced by such cables and led to calls for ensuring better protective

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State Department refugee office to assume USAID''s

The State Department office that handles refugee issues and works to cut illegal migration will lead the US response to overseas disasters, according

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