Iran and the Internet: Uneasy Standoff
We’ve received enough interest about our previous notes on Iranian Internet connectivity that I wanted to give a brief update, and some reflections. In short: Iran is still on the Internet. As the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Moving Target
This has been an exciting month for those of us who study the Internet’s infrastructure and think about ways to keep it running (and growing). Did I say exciting? Maybe “exhausting” would be more...
View ArticleEgypt Leaves the Internet
Thanks to all for great comments and questions. Please see below for latest updates on the ongoing Egyptian Internet blackout, including some trace-based analysis and a few words about neighboring...
View ArticleEgypt’s Net on Life Support
As of approximately 20:46 UTC, four hours after this blog was first published, Noor started disappearing from the Internet. They are completely unavailable at present as shown below As we observed last...
View ArticleWatching Algeria
Early reports from Algeria tonight suggested that another Internet takedown may be underway, similar to the one that affected Egypt. So far, however, we don’t see confirming evidence for it. Algerian...
View ArticleWhat Libya Learned from Egypt
Libya’s nationwide Internet blackout is entering its second full day. From a technical standpoint, it’s clear that this is a very different strategy than the one used by Egypt in the last days of the...
View ArticleIrene Wallops US Internet
Hurricane Irene knocked out power to millions of homes and businesses as it travelled up the US East Coast this weekend. Even as the winds subsided, torrential rains triggered savage flooding...
View ArticleEast African Internet Resilience
It is a fact of life of global Internet infrastructure that wherever shipping routes and cable routes overlap, submarine cable breaks are going to happen. In just the past two weeks, we’ve seen four...
View ArticleWill Iran Follow Sudan in Leaving the Internet?
As Iranian President Hasan Rouhani addressed the United Nations for the first time this week, people all over the world took to the Internet to hear and discuss his message, many for the first time....
View ArticleSyria, Venezuela, Ukraine: Internet Under Fire
Renesys is headed to RightsCon next week, to bring some data to the discussions around evolving Internet localization, the economics of infrastructure diversification, and the role of the private...
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