• Does the Internet Route Around Damage?

    From Telecom Digest Moderator@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 21 07:35:21 2024
    https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damage-baltic-sea-cable-cuts/

    On Sunday 17 November, the BSC East-West Interlink Internet cable
    connection between Sweden and Lithuania stopped working. The following
    day, the C-Lion1 Internet cable connecting Finland with Germany was also
    cut. Investigation into what could have caused these two cables - which literally cross one another in their paths across the Baltic Sea - to
    have been severed within such a short interval is still ongoing as we
    write this. But as we turn to RIPE Atlas to measure the impact these
    events had on the Internet, the question we really want to ask here is
    whether the Internet managed to route around the damage done.
    ...

    quick summary at the top:

    Event Countries Paths with signif Signif packet
    latency changes loss detected BCS cut Sweden - Lithuania 20% no C-Lion1 cut Finland - Germany 30% no

    ...

    Lots of good analysis.

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