Undersea cable C-Lion1, which is stretched between Finland and Germany, turned out to be faulty. The telecommunications connection was interrupted.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to Yle.
On November 18, in A press release from Cinia, a company that operates fiber optic networks and provides telecommunications services, said the cause of the malfunction is still unknown.
According to the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper, it was a cable break. Samuli Bergström, head of the Traficom Cyber Security Center, confirmed , that C-Lion1 was damaged. He did not comment on where exactly the cable was torn. The event affects international connections.
C-Lion1 is reported to be 1,173 kilometers long. The cable runs between Helsinki and Rostock, Germany It was put into operation in 2016. This is the only cable that goes directly from Finland to Central Europe.
It is worth noting that in March, three cables that provided global internet and communications from Asia to Europe were cut in the Red Sea. This route is considered the most important for the transmission data.
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