Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
Emile Aben
Based in Amsterdam, NL
I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet … More
• 9 min read
This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact are ongoing. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and examine to what extent the Internet in the region is resilient to these events.