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 affected the Middle East and Asia. We decided to look at the impact on Internet connectivity as seen by the PingER project measurements.
Looking at the hourly ping losses (there are ~20 pings in an hour, so a loss of 1 ping is 5% loss) for January 30th 2008 for large increases in losses which persisted to the end of the day (to avoid regular diurnal change), the main effects seen were on:
Country |
Loss before |
Loss after |
Sites affected / total |
|---|---|---|---|
Sudan |
< 4.5% |
> 15% |
3/3 |
Bahrein |
0% |
>10% |
2/2 |
UAE |
<4.5% |
>20% |
1/1 |
Jordan |
0% |
>15% |
4/4 |
Oman |
0% |
>15% |
1/1 |
Qatar |
0% |
>4.5% |
1/1 |
Saudi Arabia |
0% |
>4.5% |
2/3 |
India |
0% |
>50% |
2/8 |
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