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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

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Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

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This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic Sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact continue. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and ask to what extent the Internet in the region has been resilient to them.

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