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Strategic Report

Undersea Cables & the Red Sea’s Digital Lifeline

The corridor carries a vast share of global internet traffic. We map where it is physically vulnerable, and where nobody has clear responsibility for it.

Date
April 2026
Authors
REDSEA Institute
Reading time
22 min read

01Summary

What the report argues

The cables on the Red Sea floor carry a significant share of the traffic between Europe and Asia, through some of the most contested water in the world. This report maps the physical chokepoints, the repair-capacity gap, and the governance arrangements that were never designed for the current threat picture.

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