Taiwan Submarine Cable Map Showing Current Outage

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by phantomathkg • 11 months ago

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neilv• 11 months ago

Can someone explain? (Are all the reds failures? Is it all physical damage to cables, or some other cause?)

irjustin• 11 months ago

This whole page is an exercise in confusing UX.

Left has "Active" in red because it's "Active Incident" not the cable is "Active" but at first glance "Active" makes it seem like the cable is operational.

yellow_lead• 11 months ago

The title is a bit misleading. We have internet here. We also have several cables currently damaged.

phantomathkg2• 11 months ago

Sorry, should have said "Current Cable Outage" instead.

re-thc• 11 months ago

Exactly. It's not like Taiwan is the only place with cables damaged. Australia used to be worse.

gdjsjsbsbsj• 11 months ago

I can remember when 1 cable outage cause all caused all of the east coast of Aus to lose internet access

everyone• 11 months ago

Is china cutting them?

dheatov• 11 months ago

Extremely likely.

koenigdavidmj• 11 months ago

The alerts icon (triangle with a ! in it) shows a text list of the outages. There are many active; only one happened recently. They seem spaced out from each other, not indicative of a burst of Chinese naval activity.

phantomathkg2• 11 months ago

It is not a burst but a consistent sabotage action happening in the background [1]. To make the matter worse, those vessels that commit the crime will be merchant ship flying flags of convenience. [2]

[1] https://globaltaiwan.org/2025/03/countering-chinas-subsea-ca.... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3zy9jvd4o

gslin2• 11 months ago

For English translation about incidents, Google Translate for entire website might be helpful: https://smc-peering-tw.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_t...

gslin2• 11 months ago

Also some related news:

* https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/china/undersea-cable-taiw...

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3zy9jvd4o

Taiwan Submarine Cable Map Showing Current Outage

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