{"id":2062,"date":"2024-03-14T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2024-03-14T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:48:38","slug":"large-internet-outage-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"large Internet outage in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 14, 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/outage.ant.isi.edu\/?zoom=6&amp;lon=0.744705&amp;lat=5.859217&amp;canvas=dark&amp;ts=1710414420&amp;speed=1&amp;db=ostreaming&amp;grid=1&amp;splash=0&amp;poi_scale=3&amp;ddown=dtli,-6.0,8.0\">we observed a large outage in several West African countries<\/a>.  In Ivory Coast and Liberia, the outage was quite severe, affecting 93% of the active network blocks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-1024x866.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-1024x866.png 1024w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-1536x1299.png 1536w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-2048x1732.png 2048w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-1200x1015.png 1200w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14b-1980x1675.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Serious Internet outages in Ivory Coast, beginning 2024-03-1409:00Z.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately some locations were able to partially recover from the problems, presumably by routing through different paths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1024x866.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1024x866.png 1024w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1536x1299.png 1536w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-2048x1732.png 2048w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1200x1015.png 1200w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1980x1675.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lagos, Nigeria showed outages starting at 2024-03-14t08:00Z, with a partial recovery around t15:00Z.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The root cause for these outages is likely a problems in multiple undersea telecommunication cables, as has been reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/03\/14\/africa-internet-outage-undersea-cables-failure\/66948a0c-e228-11ee-95aa-7384336086f3_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/14\/much-of-west-and-central-africa-without-internet-after-undersea-cable-failures\">the Guardian<\/a>, among other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 14, 2024, we observed a large outage in several West African countries. In Ivory Coast and Liberia, the outage was quite severe, affecting 93% of the active network blocks: Fortunately some locations were able to partially recover from the problems, presumably by routing through different paths: The root cause for these outages is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[350,58,44,253,57],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-isi","tag-outage-detection","tag-trinocular","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}