Starlink is Building an Orbital Bypass as Undersea Cable Sabotage Threats Mount - ZH Undersea Telecom cables are critical civil infrastructure and are increasingly under threat. The wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown how civilian infrastructure can be easy targets. On Friday, the maritime intelligence company Windward reported that several vessels linked to Iran were slowed or delayed on cable routes in the Gulf of Oman as threats loomed large. For the Gulf allies, the challenge is to protect the cables from sabotage and protect data centers that are under threat from Iranian drones. It's not just threats mediated in the Gulf. Remember in 2024 when the Baltic sea cables were closed between Finland and Germany, causing two weeks of "disappointment". There has to be a solution to cable erosion that can take parts of the internet down for days, if not weeks, and that solution might be Elon Musk's Starlink. Musk joined Baron Capital's Ron Baron on Friday to discuss a number of topics, including Starlink Buildingout and Pp bandwidth, the SpaceX Starship spacecraft launching, the AI-chip plant known as Terafab, and of course, with the Democrats set to control Congress, the future of compute. Keeping our focus on what could be the best solution for underwater telecom cables. Musk told Ron: “Starlink version 4 will have 10x the capability of V3 (which itself is 10x better than V2), especially with long-distance laser links. The next links of the laser will be 10terabits per second. 100x better, we'll put in 10 of them." The clip of Musk and Baron was shared on X by Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt, in which Musk responded by saying, "100 lasers per satellite, each running over 10 Tb/s, with over 100k satellites should be able to run cables underwater," adding, "The speed of light in space is 40% faster than cable and the path is direct, instead of following the contours of the masses. ".

Starlink is Building an Orbital Bypass as Undersea Cable Sabotage Threats Mount - ZH Undersea Telecom cables are critical civil infrastructure and are increasingly under threat. The wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown how civilian infrastructure can be easy targets. On Friday, the maritime intelligence company Windward reported that several vessels linked to Iran were slowed or delayed on cable routes in the Gulf of Oman as threats loomed large. For the Gulf allies, the challenge is to protect the cables from sabotage and protect data centers that are under threat from Iranian drones. It's not just threats mediated in the Gulf. Remember in 2024 when the Baltic sea cables were closed between Finland and Germany, causing two weeks of "disappointment". There has to be a solution to cable erosion that can take parts of the internet down for days, if not weeks, and that solution might be Elon Musk's Starlink. Musk joined Baron Capital's Ron Baron on Friday to discuss a number of topics, including Starlink Buildingout and Pp bandwidth, the SpaceX Starship spacecraft launching, the AI-chip plant known as Terafab, and of course, with the Democrats set to control Congress, the future of compute. Keeping our focus on what could be the best solution for underwater telecom cables. Musk told Ron: “Starlink version 4 will have 10x the capability of V3 (which itself is 10x better than V2), especially with long-distance laser links. The next links of the laser will be 10terabits per second. 100x better, we'll put in 10 of them." The clip of Musk and Baron was shared on X by Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt, in which Musk responded by saying, "100 lasers per satellite, each running over 10 Tb/s, with over 100k satellites should be able to run cables underwater," adding, "The speed of light in space is 40% faster than cable and the path is direct, instead of following the contours of the masses. ".