{"id":446,"date":"2025-02-07T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/how-to-increase-the-resilience-of-submarine-cables-in-portuguese-waters\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:19:54","slug":"how-to-increase-the-resilience-of-submarine-cables-in-portuguese-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/how-to-increase-the-resilience-of-submarine-cables-in-portuguese-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase the Resilience of Submarine Cables in Portuguese Waters?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Submarine <em>telecom<\/em> cables (SSCs) are the backbone of the modern global communications system.<\/p>\n\n<p>These fibre-optic cables, which stretch thousands of kilometres along the seabed, are in practice responsible for transmitting around 98% of internet, voice and video data between continents. In Portugal, whose geostrategic location is favoured in the interconnection between Europe, Africa and the Americas, its waters are currently crossed by around 10% of all international CSs (this % is expected to grow significantly in the medium term) which are absolutely crucial to the resilience of the global telecommunications network.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Consult the document: <a href=\"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-to-Increase-the-Resilience-of-Submarine-Cables-in-Portuguese-Waters_07Feb25_ENG_Last-Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submarine telecom cables (SSCs) are the backbone of the modern global communications system. These fibre-optic cables, which stretch thousands of kilometres along the seabed, are in practice responsible for transmitting around 98% of internet, voice and video data between continents. In Portugal, whose geostrategic location is favoured in the interconnection between Europe, Africa and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oeid.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}