a quarter of all data traffic between asia, europe, and the middle east was effected internet service providers had to react immediately. the way we could construct don't need to approval from east and west coast perspective on the african continent. we've got access to 2 cable systems on each of the coast, so i'll need to a configuration allows us to re route capacity on to alternative cable systems. when you do so, a problem for them on, on one of the deep sea cables are part of the critical infrastructure. 1.3000000 kilometers long. they connect all of the world's continents with electricity, telecommunications, and data traffic. like a spider's web, they are interconnected and it's often possible to redirect the data that's because cables are continually damaged or destroyed, due to accidents or possibly acts of sabotage. here are a few examples from europe in recent years. the destruction of submarine data cables in norway and in 2022, between norway and swamp. on september 2022 partially struction. that's a good stream. one end to gas pipelines. october 2020 to 3 submarine cable