Asia-Europe-Africa No 1 Optical Cable
Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) is a 25,000 km from to across Egypt, connecting,,,,,, Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) is a 25,000 km from to across Egypt, connecting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and. The AAE-1 cable has a design capacity of 40 Tbit/s, across 5 fibre pairs, to supply the broadband market across Asia, Africa and Europe. In June 2017, it was launched for commercial services and was considered the longest submarine cable in the world, until it was surpassed by. AAE-1 terminates at carrier neutral data centers in regional hubs, such as Telecom House in Hong Kong, in Singapor. The AAE-1 consortium, which obtained the construction and maintenance contract in 2014, consists of over 17 carriers, including,,, Global Transit, HyalRoute,, Metfone,,,,,,,,, TeleYemen,,,. As a result, 25% of the internet traffic between Europe, Asia and the Middle East has been affected. One hypothesis for the source of the damage is that the cable was severed by the dragging anchor of the vessel which was abandoned by its crew after Houthi forces attacked it with two anti-ship missiles. On 4 March 2025, the was reportedly cut approximately 1,450 kilometers from Zafarana.
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