West African Internet Outage

West African Internet Outage

Oracle‘s Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the (Africa Coast to Europe) cable system. The cable cut occurred near Nouakchott, .

This subsea cable links most of the countries on the western coast of . For countries that have rely on a single connection, the only alternative is via satellite or to suffer an outage. Countries with multiple cable connections have a little more flexibility and resilience available to them when things like this occur.

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John Dixon

John Dixon is the Principal Consultant of thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd, based in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience, (including, but not limited to) operating, designing and optimizing systems and networks for customers from global to domestic in scale. He has worked with many international brands to implement both data centres and wide-area networks across a range of industries. He is currently supporting a major SD-WAN vendor on the implementation of an environment supporting a major global fast-food chain.

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