a quarter of all the data traffic between asia, europe, and the middle east was effected. internet service providers had to react immediately. the way we could instruct though, and it worked global from an east and west coast perspective of 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 release 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. kia, or a few examples from europe in recent years. the destruction of submarine data cables in norway. and in 2022, between norway and suave bar to september, 2020 to partially destruction of the god stream one and 2 gas pipelines. october