PEACE

The PEACE submarine cable system occured a cut in the Red Sea 1450 km from Zafaranaat, Egypt, on March 4, 2025, at 17:46 GMT, disrupted internet traffic between Asia and East Africa to Europe. The reason for the cut is not clear yet. Its repair is expected to take several months.

The PEACE cable link between Singapore and Marseille was put into service in last September. The PEACE cable has become an important high capacity route between Asia and Europe, in addition to AAE-1 and SMW5. 

The Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable is also broken in the Red Sea. It was cut in last December, repair has been prolonged. The AAE-1 cable was cut in the Red Sea earlier in February 2024, it wasn't repaired and restored until late July, with an outage period of almost 5 months.

There are increasing concerns on the security and resilience of global submarine cable network. 

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) established the International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience in last October, and had its first in-person International Submarine Cable Resilience Summit on 26–27 February 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. The Summit agreed and adopted a Declaration as a framework for fostering resilience and encouraging cooperative efforts to support this vital infrastructure.

Update

1. The PEACE Cable was repaired on March 26, 2025. PEACE and HMN Tech had great efforts to repair the cable cut in approximately 3 weeks, a quite shorter interreuption of the PEACE cable system than others. It demonstrates the capability and commitment of PEACE and HMN Tech to operate a reliable subsea cable system linking Asia and Europe via the Red Sea.

2. The AAE-1 cable cut was repaired on April 7, 2025,  with an outage of almost 4 months.