TAT-14

<h2 id="cable-failure">Cable failure</h2>
<p>In November 2003, TAT-14 suffered two breaks within weeks of each other, first on the southern link between the US and UK, then on the link between France and the Netherlands which had been providing redundant service to the UK via the northern link through Denmark, resulting in disruption to Internet services in the United Kingdom.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a>
</p><p>On May 19, 2014, preliminary reports from hosting provider <a href="/facts/DigitalOcean/bTGD40wt">Digital Ocean</a> suggested that TAT-14 was the cause for the disrupted services between the EU and the US.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>
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<h2 id="decommissioning-of-the-tat-14">Decommissioning of the TAT-14</h2>
<p>Subsea Environmental Services has removed and recycled the cable shore-ends in the U.S., U.K., France, Denmark and The Netherlands as well as the deep-water segments in the North Atlantic.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120716211819/https://www.tat-14.com/tat14/index.jsp">TAT-14 Cable System</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived July 16, 2012)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Report No. SCL-00267" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. 2020-04-02. Retrieved December 21, 2020. the TAT-14 submarine cable will be retired from service on December 15, 2020 <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-369A1.pdf" target="_blank">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-369A1.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"About the TAT-14 Cable Network". TAT-14. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2023-01-14. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200807210032/https://www.tat-14.com/tat14/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200807210032/https://www.tat-14.com/tat14/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"CABLE LANDING LICENSE". U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 1999-10-01. Retrieved 2013-08-09. <a href="https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Orders/1999/da992042.txt" target="_blank">https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Orders/1999/da992042.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"VS wijst knelpunten Nederland aan" (in Dutch). RTL Nieuws. 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2013-08-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170101013425/http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/vs-wijst-knelpunten-nederland-aan" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170101013425/http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/vs-wijst-knelpunten-nederland-aan</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Out With the Old Cables, in With the New". 2020-12-21. <a href="https://blog.telegeography.com/out-with-the-old-cables-in-with-the-new" target="_blank">https://blog.telegeography.com/out-with-the-old-cables-in-with-the-new</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Upcoming Dismantling of the TAT-14 Submarine Cable System". 2021-05-11. <a href="https://www.ien.eu/article/upcoming-dismantling-of-the-tat-14-submarine-cable-system/" target="_blank">https://www.ien.eu/article/upcoming-dismantling-of-the-tat-14-submarine-cable-system/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Wearden, Graeme (2003-11-26). "Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic". ZDNet. Retrieved 2013-08-09. <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/cable-failure-hits-uk-internet-traffic-3039118125/" target="_blank">https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/cable-failure-hits-uk-internet-traffic-3039118125/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Craig, Andrew (2003-11-26). "Net failure hits UK". webuser.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-09. <a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/376427/net-failure-hits-uk" target="_blank">http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/376427/net-failure-hits-uk</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>"Network Outage in EU affecting AMS1 and AMS2". DigitalOcean. 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2018-01-30. <a href="https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/6782mtcjgxg9" target="_blank">https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/6782mtcjgxg9</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>"Subsea Cable System". Red Penguin Marine. 2024-03-05. Retrieved 17 October 2024. <a href="https://redpenguinmarine.com/case-studies/red-penguin-to-advise-on-tat-14-cable-decommissioning/" target="_blank">https://redpenguinmarine.com/case-studies/red-penguin-to-advise-on-tat-14-cable-decommissioning/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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