Fibre cuts the Mediterranean were reported (also see) on December 18th 2009. We decided to have a look at the impact on ping performance using the PingER data.
Losses
The effects on the losses seen from N. America (SLAC in California) to N. Africa (Egypt, Sudan); Middle East (Bahrein, Palestine, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudia Arabia); S. Asia (Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan) are huge. As seen from PingER daily loss data measured from SLAC, comparing the losses on Friday Dec 19 with those on Mon-Thu (15-18 Dec) the losses have increased by a factor of 5 to 30 times for most of the hosts monitored in the above countries.
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