Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from cable cuts

Cloudflare Radar reports that two Baltic Sea submarine cable cuts in November 2024 had little to no observable impact on connectivity in the affected countries, largely because of European network redundancy. The BCS East-West Interlink, connecting Sventoji, Lithuania and Katthammarsvik, Sweden, was reportedly damaged on November 17, 2024, around 08:00 UTC; Telia Lietuva's CTO said the cable carried about a third of Lithuania's Internet capacity, but that capacity was carried via other routes. The C-Lion1 cable, linking Helsinki, Finland and Rostock, Germany, stopped working at about 02:00 UTC on November 18, according to its owner Cinia. In Finland, median bandwidth rose and latency fell around that time, but the shifts began before the cut and recovered quickly, so the article considers them unlikely to be related.