SFR fiber optic networks have been “cut”. The connections were gradually returning to normal at the end of the morning.
Slowdowns and cuts in internet access were reported Wednesday morning in several major French cities, after acts of vandalism affected the fiber optic network. More specifically, the long-distance network operated by SFR sufferedof well-structured malicious acts around 4 a.m. this morning“, according to our information. A schedule and a multiplication of cuts that excludes mere chance. The main links affected concern the “roads» between Paris and Lyon, Paris and Strasbourg, and Île-de-France. Police investigations are underway, but the modus operandi leaves little doubt. Vandalism, malevolence, sabotage whatever the term used, it is indeed a deliberate act.
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These vandalism operations affected SFR infrastructure, also used by Bouygues Telecom and Free. At Free, some 100,000 customers would have been impacted. SFR has not yet assessed the consequences for its subscribers, but they would be marginal. Orange, on the other hand, is not concerned. The connections were gradually returning to normal at the end of the morning. Indeed, these telecom routes are duplicated, which makes it possible to overcome this type of difficulty. Redundant infrastructures have taken over. On the ground, repair operations are in full swing. “SFR’s technical teams are fully mobilized», Specifies the operator. Of “large cableswere severed, each comprising several pairs of fibers, which involves complex and time-consuming repairs.
The Ministry of the Economy confirmed to AFP that it had been informed of the problem of “severed pipes» which could correspond to acts of vandalism, while the operator Free, largely affected, reported on Twitter of «multiple malicious acts” on the fiber infrastructure that occurred overnight and now “circumscribed“.
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