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NATO is financing a program to provide satellite-based connectivity in the wake of subsea cable issues in Europe. Project to enable automatic rerouting of data amid cable outages
Implementation of the project is due to begin "very soon." However, researchers will spend two years testing prototypes and dealing with international regulations and "very messy" laws before a working operational system can be created.
NATO will reportedly support the project with a grant of €400k ($433,600) for the $2.5 million project through its Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS). Sweden and Iceland are among the countries interested in the project.
One part of the project is to examine ways of detecting threats to undersea cables more effectively to determine when traffic needs to be rerouted. While cable network operators can detect disturbances on a cable down to the nearest kilometer, the project wants to reduce this to the nearest meter.
