SMW4 and IMEWE are cut near Jeddah
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Two of the principal Europe–Asia systems, SEA-ME-WE 4 and IMEWE, failed in the Red Sea near Jeddah at around 05:45 UTC. Traffic between Asia, the Gulf and Europe was rerouted within hours, but along longer paths: Microsoft told Azure customers to expect higher latency on traffic that had previously crossed the Middle East, and degraded performance was reported in India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Cloud services were restored quickly; the physical repairs were expected to take weeks or months. The episode is the cleanest recent illustration of the difference between the network recovering and the cable being fixed.
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