Undersea cable between Lithuania and Latvia damaged near Liepāja (www.lrt.lt)
from Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de to world@lemmy.world on 05 Jan 08:13
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52194106

It seems another fiber optic subsea cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea, this is not the same incident as the one in the Gulf of Finland a few days ago.

I’m wondering if it’s BCS-East or a different not publicly listed one. Can’t find confirmation yet.

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Lembot_0006@programming.dev on 05 Jan 08:35 next collapse

Just convoy Russian ships when they cross the Baltic. Problem solved.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 05 Jan 12:43 next collapse

Šventoji has had such incidents before. To me it does seem intentional, probably by Russia, but as of right now there’s little info. FWIW, this has NOT disrupted the local internet significantly.

Here’s a map of the area (the red squiggle is my idea of where the cable is):

<img alt="0" src="https://i.ibb.co/1G8PCMMQ/liepaja-sventoji.png">

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Jan 14:03 collapse

FWIW, this has NOT disrupted the local internet significantly.

That’s good to hear. I figured between Lithuania and Latvia there should be enough terrestrial routes for redundancies to work out fine.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 05 Jan 21:09 collapse

Why do Lithuania and Latvia even have a data cable between them that runs through international waters?

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jan 20:11 collapse

My best guess is that since BCS-East was finished 1995, and both countries only had telecom liberalisation in 2003, maybe there was a time where it was easier to build through the water, because it wouldn’t encroach on the monopolists market on the land.

Or it was a sort of easier starter project before the BCS-East-West Interlink was built until 1997 from Lithuania over to Gotland, while also allowing Alcatel to sell access from/to Gotland from/to both Lithuania and Latvia.