Why the internet goes dark: Politics, cable cuts…and exam day paid Oracle
cable disrupted connectivity to African countries. We saw varying levels of severity and duration across eight countries on the west coast of Africa. This range of impacts may be influenced by the redundancy that these countries have in place; greater reliance on the ACE cable would result in a deeper, longer-duration disruption.
Widespread power outages occur frequently in Venezuela, and we observed internet disruptions resulting from these outages in July, August, October and December 2018. For example, local network providers appear to have been impacted within the country during a , since Oracle Internet Intelligence measurement agents had trouble reaching endpoints within these networks.When a DDoS attack targets an internet service provider, it can disrupt connectivity for that provider’s customers. DDoS attacks generally work by flooding a service provider with bogus information requests or other junk traffic, with the intent of overwhelming target systems or filling network connections.
On November 4 and 5, a group of internet service providers in Cambodia, including EZECOM, SINET, Telcotech and Digi totaling nearly 150 Gbps, causing subscriber downtime lasting as much as half a day. The figure below shows the impact of the attack that targeted SINET. Many of Oracle’s Internet Intelligence measurement agents were unable to reach endpoints in the network, and the lower number of successful measurements saw higher latencies.
Overall, the impacts of internet disruptions will become more and more significant as the internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous in daily life, across both developed and developing countries.Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for sales, service, marketing, human resources, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing, plus highly aut...
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