Published Articles (65)

Region May 3, 2026

Submarine cable health, March–April 2026: 16 high-severity events mapped

Route Analysis May 1, 2026 📡 791ms

Tbilisi to Yemen: 790 ms via Frankfurt and Starlink — How War-Disrupted Aden Reaches the Internet

Route Analysis May 1, 2026 📡 877ms

Almaty to Tokyo: 877 ms via London and Singapore — a 21,000-Kilometre Internet Detour

Country Apr 23, 2026

North Korea: The Ping That Never Returns

Country Apr 23, 2026

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the Empty Caspian Seafloor

Country Apr 21, 2026

Turkmenistan's Entire Internet Runs Through Three Foreign IPs

Country Apr 19, 2026

Gibraltar's Submarine Cable: One Landing at the World's Busiest Strait

Route Analysis Apr 17, 2026 📡 507ms

507 Milliseconds From Minsk to Rarotonga: A Packet's Journey Through Moscow, Vienna, Los Angeles, and Tahiti

Cable Apr 15, 2026

When Typhoon Sinlaku Made a 200-km Cable Take a 12,000-km Detour: Anatomy of a BGP Reroute During a Cat-5 Storm

Cable Apr 14, 2026

Maroc Telecom's Private Cable: One Owner, Six Landings, and an 8,600 km Corporate Backbone

Country Apr 14, 2026

Iran's Internet Map: 7 Landing Stations, 6 Cables, and a 175 ms Trip to Next-Door Kuwait via Italy

Country Apr 13, 2026

Indonesia: 143 Landing Points and the World's Most Complex Cable Network

Country Apr 12, 2026

Japan: 70 Landing Stations and the World s Most Earthquake-Proof Cable Network

Country Apr 12, 2026

Tunisia in 70 ms: six cables and the Italian Sparkle gateway

Country Apr 11, 2026

1969 ms to Rarotonga: A Week of Congestion on the Manatua Cable

Region Apr 8, 2026

368ms to Dodge a War: How Red Sea Cable Cuts Reroute the Internet

Country Apr 7, 2026

Cuba: 150 km from Florida, 10,000 km to the Internet — Where Geopolitics Decides Your Ping

Country Apr 5, 2026

Tonga: One Cable, One Volcano — How a Pacific Island Nation Lost Its Internet for 38 Days and What It Looks Like Now

Route Analysis Apr 5, 2026

Jerusalem to the Cook Islands: 462ms — How Two Submarine Cables and a Tahitian Detour Connect the Middle East to the Last Pacific Nation That Got Fiber

Route Analysis Apr 4, 2026

Cape Town to Penang: 308ms — The SAFE Cable Paradox and Why All Roads Lead Through Marseille

Route Analysis Apr 3, 2026

Singapore to Tostado: 417ms — How TELXIUS Routes Southeast Asia to a Small-Town Telephone Cooperative in the Argentine Pampas

Route Analysis Apr 2, 2026

Harstad to Sydney: 403ms from the Arctic Circle to the Southern Hemisphere — How Arelion Routes Northern Norway Through Marseille and Singapore to Reach Australia

Route Analysis Apr 2, 2026

Jerusalem to Tanzania: 418ms Through Djibouti — The Tiny Nation Where 10 Submarine Cables Meet 8 Military Bases

Route Analysis Mar 30, 2026

Jerusalem to Peru: 584ms — How Hurricane Electric Routes the Middle East to Latin America Through Milan, Virginia Beach, and Sao Paulo

Region Mar 29, 2026

Week in Review: One Second to Taiwan, 724ms to an Island, and a Packet That Crossed Three Continents to Reach Colombia

Route Analysis Mar 28, 2026

Tbilisi to Mauritius: 724ms via Johannesburg — When SEACOM Takes Your Packets 15,000 km South Before Sending Them East

Route Analysis Mar 28, 2026

Singapore to Colombia: 548ms Across Three Continents — Why TELXIUS Sends Your Packets Through Paris and Virginia to Reach South America

Cable Mar 25, 2026

Svalbard: How Norway Laid the World's Northernmost Cable Through Arctic Storms — And Why Someone Cut It

Region Mar 25, 2026

Antarctica: The Last Continent Without a Submarine Cable — Where Scientists Schedule Their Internet by the Hour

Route Analysis Mar 22, 2026

Nigeria to Cameroon: 502ms and Six Countries to Reach a Neighbor — When a Direct Cable Goes Unused

Route Analysis Mar 21, 2026

The Internet's Longest Detours: When Your Data Crosses 11 Countries to Reach a Neighbor

Region Mar 20, 2026

Arctic Cables: How the World's Northernmost Communities Stay Online

Region Mar 19, 2026

September 6, 2025: The Day the Red Sea Lost Its Cables — And the Internet Survived

Route Analysis Mar 19, 2026 📡 217ms

Two Routes to Taiwan: Eurasia in 217ms vs America in 345ms

Route Analysis Mar 16, 2026

Equatorial Guinea: The Country Whose Internet Crosses Eight US Cities to Reach Australia

Route Analysis Mar 15, 2026

Georgia to Taiwan: 743ms Through Nine Countries — Why Cogent Sends Packets Across North America to Reach Asia's Biggest Cable Hub

Region Mar 14, 2026

The Pacific Islands' Internet Paradox: Why Data Crosses Three Oceans to Reach Samoa

Route Analysis Mar 12, 2026 📡 321ms

Cogent vs NTT: Two Carriers, Two Philosophies, Two Paths to Asia

Route Analysis Mar 11, 2026 📡 387ms

Samoa & Tonga: Internet at the Edge of the World

Route Analysis Mar 10, 2026 📡 277ms

Cuba's Internet: One Cable, One Company, Zero Redundancy

Route Analysis Mar 9, 2026 📡 214ms

Georgia to Hong Kong in 214ms: The Route That Skips the USA

Route Analysis Mar 7, 2026 📡 318ms

Why NTT Sends All Asian Traffic Through the USA: The Transpacific Paradox

Route Analysis Mar 6, 2026 📡 256ms

Sri Lanka to Mauritius: 255ms via Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and TATA's Indian Ocean Backbone

Route Analysis Mar 5, 2026 📡 52ms

Australia–Singapore Submarine Cables: The Complete Guide

Route Analysis Mar 4, 2026 📡 318ms

Georgia to Indonesia: 318ms the Long Way — Why NTT Sends Asian Traffic Through America

Route Analysis Mar 3, 2026 📡 274ms

Belarus to Japan: 273ms via Tallinn and NTT's Transpacific Highway

Route Analysis Mar 1, 2026 📡 182ms

Belarus to China in 181ms: Faster Than You'd Expect Through Frankfurt

Route Analysis Feb 27, 2026 📡 409ms

Belarus to Qatar: 409ms and Then Silence — The Most Opaque Route in Our Database

Route Analysis Feb 25, 2026 📡 203ms

Georgia to Egypt: 202ms via Mombasa and Mauritius — The Backwards African Route

Route Analysis Feb 23, 2026 📡 293ms

Singapore to Colombia: 292ms via Paris and Miami — The Latin America Problem

Route Analysis Feb 21, 2026 📡 322ms

Georgia to Philippines: 321ms the Wrong Way Around — Through the USA

Route Analysis Feb 19, 2026 📡 298ms

Georgia to French Polynesia: 298ms Through Honolulu to Tahiti

Route Analysis Feb 17, 2026 📡 312ms

Belarus to New Zealand: 311ms to the World's Most Remote Internet Hub

Route Analysis Feb 15, 2026 📡 200ms

Belarus to South Korea in 200ms: The Fastest Route Through Moscow and Hong Kong

Route Analysis Feb 13, 2026 📡 370ms

Georgia to Fiji: How a Pacific Island Gets Its Internet via London

Route Analysis Feb 11, 2026 📡 427ms

The Longest Route We've Ever Measured: Oman to Chile at 452ms

Route Analysis Feb 9, 2026 📡 334ms

Why Does Internet Traffic from Kazakhstan to Indonesia Go Through London and San Jose?

Route Analysis Feb 6, 2026 📡 182ms

Why Landlocked Countries Have Terrible Internet: The Physics of Connectivity

Cable Feb 3, 2026 📡 200ms

Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage 2024–2025: When Ships Became Weapons

Cable Jan 30, 2026

Red Sea Cable Cuts 2024: How Houthi Attacks Rerouted the Internet

Cable Jan 27, 2026

GlobeNet: The Transatlantic Cable Powering Latin America's Financial Networks

Cable Jan 22, 2026

Hawaiki Cable: New Zealand and Australia's Pacific Lifeline

Cable Jan 17, 2026

APCN-2: The Backbone of Intra-Asian Internet

Cable Jan 12, 2026

SEA-ME-WE 5: The Internet Highway Between Asia and Europe

Cable Jan 8, 2026

2Africa: The World's Longest Submarine Cable at 45,000km