After a year packed with suspicious and disruptive undersea cable cuts, it’s time for multinational customers to review the diversity and network routes of the suppliers that provide their critical communications services.
The global subsea cable network carries 95% of international communications traffic and an estimated $10 trillion of financial transactions daily. Additionally, new subsea cables from companies like Meta, Amazon and Google are replacing older cables.
“An increasing number of enterprises are looking at the details of the network, on land and undersea, and incorporating the risks into their disaster recovery and business continuity plans,” said Brian Lavallée, senior director of market and competitive intelligence at Ciena, a maker of fiber optic communications systems.
He said these enterprises examine details such as where fiber routes are, if multiple paths are in the same conduit and whether multiple paths share a single point of equipment failure.
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