How the Internet Routed Around Cable Damage in the Baltic Sea

Explore how the Internet's resilient infrastructure automatically adapted to maintain connectivity following recent submarine cable damage in the Baltic Sea in this 18-minute conference presentation. Analyze the real-world impact of outages affecting the BSC East-West and C-LION1 cables through detailed RIPE Atlas measurements that reveal latency shifts, packet loss patterns, and dynamic rerouting behaviors. Discover how network operators and Internet infrastructure responded to these critical disruptions, demonstrating the Internet's self-healing capabilities and the importance of redundant connectivity paths in maintaining global communications during infrastructure failures.