Telecom Diversity Europe-MiddleEast-Asia

News of 3 major telecom cable cuts are creating significant problems for the internet and other traffic between Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia.

Conspiracy theories aside (it is rather a coincidence that all 3 cables had problems over just a few days) this incident highlights a few points:

1) Diversity of both land and sea cables is critical to network infrastructure.
2) The US remains the major global internet hub, with far more transpacific capacity than SeaMeWe3, SeaMeWe4, and FLAG have between Europe and Asia via the Mid-East.
3) Network managers must design back-ups across the US into their global networks.

I feel for all the network managers that are having to deal with these outages, having been there myself. Good Luck!