Conflicts and fiber cuts

Sun Mar 6 23:13:33 UTC 2022

You do realise there's a shedload of fibre running around Europe ? There are so many redundant paths that you'd have to chop through quite a lot of it before anyone noticed much difference.

I mean even within Ukraine itself, traditional internet (i.e. non-satcom) has proven to be surprisingly resilient.

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On Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 at 07:09, Hank Nussbacher <hank at interall.co.il> wrote:

> As the discussion rages on NANOG, RIPE, CENTR and many other
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> uber-technical forums, I would like to see whether we can focus on what
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> we know best - networking. Perhaps a weekly report of fiber cuts
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> throughout Europe (starting from Feb 15) and the RFO that the carrier
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> provided. Of especial interest would be undersea/underocean cuts or
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> strange outages that the carrier cannot explain. Perhaps we can then
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> map where some nation/state is sabotaging fiber or tapping into such fiber.
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> Anyone willing to run with this?
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> -Hank