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It's amazing how many cables there are routing through the Suez Canal, especially directly connecting Mumbai all the way through to Marseille.

I wonder how well protected they are specifically in the Suez Canal. Presumably the whole area is pretty well surveilled by the Egyptian government, but I have no clue. I just think it's really interesting how many cables are (understandably) routed this way and wonder whether there is full backup redundancy in the few cables running around south of Africa.

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I was initially surprised by how highly the cable map correlates with canonical surface traffic routes, but upon reflection I guess the basic economics of trade centres drives both, so I should've expected it...