Cloudflare, the Connectivity Cloud colossus, reckons the recent undersea internet cable damage events in the Baltic Sea have had “little-to-no observable impact.” Despite the sneaky suspected cable-cutting antics of what are considered Chinese/Russian entities, European internet infrastructure has proved resilient due to significant redundancy, according to pre- and post-damage observations.
It is easy to say ‘This is fine’ but Cloudflare has backed up its assertions with a series of graphs charting internet traffic volume and quality metrics spanning the cable sabotage events. Both the BCS East-West Interlink, connecting Lithuania and Sweden, and the C-Lion1 cable, between Finland and Germany, have been damaged to varying degrees in recent days.
