Nowadays, submarine cables are much talked about because of their importance for the expansion of Internet, since submarine cables are essential for the interconnection of the equipment in different geographic points. Some of these cables, installed on the ocean floor, connect entire countries and continents to the web, but they are not indestructible.
On March 30, 2018 the ACE submarine cable has been cut, reducing the connectivity of much of West Africa. According to reports, the breach occurred off the coast of Mauritania, resulting in significant drops in connectivity for at least ten neighboring countries. Mauritania itself was offline for almost 48 hours before connectivity is partially restored.
Other affected countries that maintain connections through this submarine cable were able to use satellite or terrestrial cable connections, but Mauritania was fully offline, since it depended exclusively on the ruptured submarine cable.
Interruptions like this rarely make headlines, but it's a good reminder of how fragile the bulk of the Internet's infrastructure is, especially in places like West Africa. When a main cable is cut off, all other connections must work to compensate for the gap. When there is no other infrastructure to rely on, connectivity simply drops out. In the absence of investment, the Internet becomes less reliable for the entire region.
Angola suffered with the cut of this cable?
As the map shows, the submarine cable ACE unfortunately, there are no reports that our country has suffered with the cut of this cable, but here we can highlight one of the cases that affected our country in 2017, where there was a cut in SAT-3 fiber optic submarine cable, and Angola ended up experiencing constraints on Internet services.
