Mediterranean Fiber Cable Cut (January-February 2008) Analysis of Network Dynamics
Abstract
On the morning of 30 January 2008, two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged near Alexandria, Egypt. The media reported significant disruptions of Internet and phone traffic in the Middle East and South Asia. About two days later, a third cable was cut, this time in the Persian Gulf, 56 kilometers off the coast of Dubai. In the days that followed,
more news on other cable outages came in. We looked at the impact these events had on Internet connectivity by analyzing the data collected by the Routing Information Service (RIS) of RIPE NCC and using publicly available tools developed by the Compunet Research Group of Rome Tre University and by the RIS.
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