The NY Times, BBC, The Guardian, CNN and many others reported a fibre outage in the Mediterraneann caused by a ship's anchor near Alexandra Egypt. This that one undersea cable was damaged near Alexandria, Egypt, and the other in the waters off Marseille, France. The two cables, which are separately managed and operated, were damaged within hours of each other. Operators believe the damage was caused by ship anchors during a heavy storm at sea. One of the cables, Sea Me We 4, is owned by 16 telecommunications companies along its route. The second cable, known as the Flag (for Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe) System, runs from Britain to Japan. The outages mainly affected the Middle East and Asia. Most disrupted communications were quickly rerouted through other cables. We decided to look at the impact on Internet connectivity as seen by the PingER project measurements.
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