Maintenance in progress

a fault was detected on the manatua submarine cable 144 km off samoa — an electrical shunt near a repeater degrading service in niue and the cook islands, with a specialist repair ship still being located. in the same cycle, researchers at china's national defence university published a warning that low-cost unmanned undersea vehicles can sever fibre carrying about 99% of intercontinental data. the pairing of a live pacific outage and doctrinal writing about how cheaply cables can be cut is what makes this notable.

pacific telecom notices; chinese academic publication