NATO Approves of Plan to Reroute The Internet Through Space
- by TechRound
- Jul 25, 2024
- 0 Comments
- 0 Likes Flag 0 Of 5
LinkedIn
While consumers are well-acquainted with wireless internet today, the World Wide Web still relies on massive subsea cables that wrap around the planet. Recent initiatives led by SpaceX and Amazon have started to bring internet infrastructure to the final frontier; space.
Now NATO has backed a plan to reroute the internet through space infrastructure if those cables fail.
With this context, we find NATO’s plan for a backup internet system. The initiative hasn’t been publicly announced yet, so it doesn’t have a quick, accessible name. What has been reported by Bloomberg, is that it’s a collaborative effort between the US, Sweden, Switzerland, and Iceland. That may sound like a random collection of countries but, Switzerland aside, these are three countries that manage key points in the Atlantic’s subsea cable infrastructure.
NATO has given over $400,000 towards the project, which is costed at $2.5 million. According to this project, the estimated cost of cable failure could exceed $10 trillion. So, in response, researchers want to develop a system that reroutes the internet through available satellites in the event of a damaged cable. The plan was no doubt spurred by recent issues with subsea cables, where large portions of East Africa were left without internet. Off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire, four cables; ACE, WACS, SAT-3, and MainOne, were taken offline by an undersea landslide.
It may seem like a small contribution from the multinational organization, but it reaffirms that NATO is exploring ways to safeguard internet access from predictable and unpredictable disruptions. It also tacitly reveals that, to NATO at least, satellite internet is the way. If consumer-facing services like Starlink and Project Kuiper become dominant, future civilizations may get their internet via the stars instead of the sea.
Related Articles
Please first to comment
Related Post
Stay Connected
Tweets by elonmuskTo get the latest tweets please make sure you are logged in on X on this browser.
Sponsored
Popular Post
Tesla: Buy This Dip, Energy Growth And Margin Recovery Are Vastly Underappreciated
28 ViewsJul 29 ,2024