One hour Cuban Internet outage
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One hour Cuban Internet outage


Doug Madory of Renesys reports that Cuba was unreachable via satellite or the ALBA-1 cable for one hour today. I've no idea what the problem was -- preventative maintenance?, equipment upgrade? -- I will post a followup if I learn more.




- Cuban International Traffic Shifts From Satellite To The Alba-1 Undersea Cable
Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Dyn Research, sent me a note on Cuba's international traffic. As you see here, on July 1, nearly all satellite traffic (blue and green) was re-routed to the ALBA-1 undersea cable: As a result, median...

- Cuba-jamaica Link Of The Undersea Cable Is Operational
Doug Madory of Renesys reports that the Cuba-Jamaica link of the ALBA-1 cable is carrying Cable and Wireless (C&W) traffic. The first plot shows Transit, a Renesys-defined metric which is a function of several variables and may be interpreted as...

- First Traffic On The Alba-1 Cable
Doug Madory, who has been keeping us up to date on traffic (or the or lack of it) on the ALBA-1 submarine cable between Venezuela and Cuba pointed me to a new blog post this morning, in which he reports limited cable traffic. For the past six years, three...

- What's Up With The Alba-1 Cable? Time To Follow The Money.
MIC Minisiter Maimir Mesa commenting on the ALBA-1 cableLast week I received an email from Doug Madory of Renesys Corporation, the Internet monitoring company. Doug is the analyst who, last May, provided us with smoking-gun evidence that the ALBA-1 undersea...

- Hard Data On The Idle Alba-1 Undersea Cable
I received an email today from Doug Madory of Renesys, a company that monitors the dynamic state of the global Internet. Madory wrote that there is no evidence of a submarine cable in use in Cuba in 2012. He said that latencies to Cuba are very stable...



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