{"id":286106,"date":"2024-03-07T18:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=286106"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:24:53","slug":"significance-of-undersea-cable-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/significance-of-undersea-cable-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of Undersea cable for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>-This post on Significance of<strong> Undersea cable for India<\/strong> has been created based on the article \u201c<strong>Undersea Message: India, Get More Cable-Able<\/strong>&#8221; published on \u201c<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u201d on 7 March 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>GS Paper 3-<\/strong> Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>-The article highlights the need of building robust submarine infrastructure for commercial and strategic interest of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>&#8211; Recently, submarine cables in the Red Sea have been damaged. This poses challenge for India\u2019s Telecom Sector.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is an undersea cable or submarine cable system?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is a \u2018line link\u2018 in the form of wire, cable, optical fiber, tube, conduit, waveguide or another physical medium. It is for carrying communications by means of guided electromagnetic energy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the damage and who caused it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Red Sea has 14 undersea cables.They carry 90% of net traffic between Europe and Asia.<br \/>\nThere is no solid evidence to inform who caused the damage. The Houthis claim that they have damaged it, whereas some believe it is damaged by anchors of old ships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/submarine-cables-and-india-threats-and-vulnerabilities-explained-pointwise\/#gsc.tab=0\">Submarine Cables and India- Threats and Vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the significance of building robust undersea cable for India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) <strong>Economic significance<\/strong>&#8211; Undersea cables carry 99% of internet traffic. India&#8217;s TATA communication is a stakeholder in TGN Red Sea cable. Damage to cable may lead to substantial loss to Indian service sector<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Geostrategic Significance-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A) Data is perceived to be new oil and cables carry data.So,cutting hostile or enemy nations&#8217; communication could prove to be a great strategic move during wartime. For ex-During world wars, this tactic was employed by warring nations.<\/p>\n<p>B) India lies at the important maritime crossroads between western Pacific and Persian Gulf. Submarine cable mostly follow these maritime routes.Hence,India may be at a strategically advantageous position while navigating through regional diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is geo-economic and geo-strategic significance of Undersea cables for India?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Significance of Undersea cable for India has been created based on the article \u201cUndersea Message: India, Get More Cable-Able&#8221; published on \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 7 March 2024. UPSC Syllabus&#8211;GS Paper 3- Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc. News-The article highlights the need of building robust submarine infrastructure for commercial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/significance-of-undersea-cable-for-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Significance of Undersea cable for India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9,1227],"tags":[216,242,10496],"class_list":["post-286106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","category-science-and-technology","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-science-and-technology","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}