Fibre cuts the Mediterranean were reported on December 18th 2009. We decided to have a look at the impact on ping performance using the PingER data.
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 (see http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/
) data, 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.
For performance issues following the previous Mediterranean fibre cut see:
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean