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Cycle #99

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guam lost roughly 69% of internet traffic for 2.4 days beginning july 5, with one measurement showing a 100% drop, while routing announcements stayed intact — meaning the physical layer failed while the control plane kept advertising routes. no cause has been identified. a multi-day, unexplained outage on a strategically located pacific island hosting significant us military infrastructure stands out among this cycle's briefer disruptions in somalia, togo and the bahamas.

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french polynesia lost stable internet routing visibility for 12.9 days from july 21 to august 3 with no cause disclosed, alongside shorter degradations in the british virgin islands (2.6 days), ethiopia (22 hours) and nigeria (10 hours). a near two-week routing outage on an island territory usually means a physical cable problem, but nothing has been stated publicly. 91%
the physical internet layer showed three separate stress points: a fault in fiji's manatua subsea fiber degraded connectivity across parts of the pacific, the republic of congo lost about 97% of measured traffic for 34 minutes centered at 13:20 utc with no public cause given, and taiwan announced moves to harden its undersea cable security. the us senate also confirmed adam cassady as cyberspace ambassador in a narrow 51-47 vote, with a portfolio explicitly spanning ai, semiconductors, undersea cables and satellites. the cable question is being handled simultaneously as an outage problem and a diplomatic office. 89%
tanker traffic through the strait of hormuz fell to its lowest level in more than two months, with owners switching off transponders, aborting transits, or avoiding the passage after attacks and threats, following the collapse of a us–iran understanding. separately, honduras lost about 17% of its visible internet routes for over two hours in a control-plane failure. one is deliberate avoidance of a chokepoint, the other an unexplained routing gap — both are the world's plumbing showing stress. 89%
mali lost dynamic internet routing for more than seven days, from july 30 to august 7, with visible network prefixes flat at 347 — meaning the country's networks stopped exchanging routing updates entirely rather than briefly dropping. shorter disruptions hit venezuela (about five hours) and timor-leste (forty minutes). a week-long routing freeze is a different class of event from an outage; nothing was being updated at all. 89%
in a single window, subsea and terrestrial cables failed on three continents: venezuela's main submarine fibre ruptured after twin earthquakes, pakistan's sea-me-we 5 hit an undisclosed fault, guam saw a nine-hour connectivity drop of nearly 50% with no attribution, and a uk contractor severed fibre in maghull. several causes are unstated or unattributed. the clustering of independent physical-layer failures in one cycle is unusual. 88%
in the early hours of july 11 utc, north macedonia lost 82% of connectivity across four events, burkina faso lost 93% of traffic for nearly three hours with no attributed cause, and the drc's national domain broke after a cable incident off ivory coast triggered a routing error. three unrelated countries going dark or degraded in the same overnight window is likely coincidence, but the clustering itself is worth recording. 88%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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