BBC reports Kenya fiber break

Fri Mar 2 07:24:45 UTC 2012

I would like to deeply thank you all for your prompt response as well as 
for your generous contribution and the most interesting information that 
you shared.
Of course any further insight is still more than welcome.

Best regards,

George

On 03/02/2012 01:22 AM, Jim Cowie wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis <gtheo at iti.gr 
> <mailto:gtheo at iti.gr>> wrote:
>
>     Has it been known the exact time of the incident?
>     I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the
>     mid-day of Saturday 25th but nothing more precise.
>     We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly detection
>     analysis that we are carrying out in our research centre.
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     George
>
>
>
> Renesys published a brief writeup of the incident yesterday.   We 
> called it at 09:13 UTC on the 25th.   Lots of interesting outage and 
> transit-shift effects to see in the East African BGP data that day. 
>  We also report some shifts in latency based on active measurement, as 
> everyone's traffic jumps onto the surviving connectivity through 
> SEACOM.   Kenya Data Networks (AS33770) did a particularly good job 
> staying alive by virtue of their upstream provider diversity, kudos to 
> them.
>
> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/02/east-african-cable-breaks.shtml
>
> best,  --jim