INDIGO-Central, which links Perth and Sydney, suffered a shunt fault in early August inside the Perth Submarine Cable Protection Zone, alongside INDIGO-West. The sources we reviewed do not report a restoration date for INDIGO-Central.
No cause has been established. See the INDIGO-West incident for the reported vessel-activity concerns.
Shunt faults reported on INDIGO-Central and INDIGO-West off Perth
SUBCO reported shunt faults on both INDIGO systems in close succession, inside the Perth Submarine Cable Protection Zone.
Supports: status, fault location
Supports: fault confirmed, status
Supports: status, fault location, fault confirmed
“Earlier tonight: Shunt faults on two systems (Indigo West and Indigo Central) straight after each other and in close proximity to each other. Remarkably this also happened in the Submarine Cable Protection Zone off Perth Australia.”
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Shown for context. An earthquake or storm nearby is only given as the cause when a source says so, and outage signals show connectivity dropped somewhere in a country, not which cable.