Madagascar Telecommunications Fiber Optic Cable Outage
A major undersea fibre-optic cable cut on Sunday disrupted internet services across East Africa, slowing connections and causing widespread outages in the region and South Africa. This graph shows additional details related to IODA's Active Probing measurements, including Round-Trip Time (RTT) Latency and the percentage of IODA's probe packets that did not get a response. The Internet Outages Map is an at-a-glance visualization of global Internet health over the last 24 hours, tracking Internet outages across ISPs, top application providers, public clouds, and edge service networks. The Telma Madagascar communications company was first alerted last Wednesday that the underwater EASSy cable that supports Internet access to the island nation was out of service. The damage, according to a company release, occurred at a depth of 2,600 meters and about 38 kilometers offshore from. In this long exposure image, fiber-optic lights glow at the Field of Light immersive art installation from artist Bruce Munro, part of the Light at Sensorio on April 13, 2021 in Paso Robles, California. FILE—Two young boys use a computer in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, September 29, 2021. A dozen countries across Africa suffered internet outages March 14, 2024, as multiple undersea telecommunication cables reported failures.
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