UGARIT cable: latency up to 2.1× normal, 25 Aug 2026
What we measured
| Cable | UGARIT |
| Segment | Pentaskhinos, CY → Tartous, SY |
| Detected | 2026-08-25 23:01 UTC |
| Resolved | 2026-08-26 00:32 UTC |
| Duration | 1h 31m |
| Observed latency | 7.7 ms |
| Baseline | 10.3 ms · 2.05× |
| Increase | +105% |
| Severity | warning |
Who is affected
Countries where UGARIT comes ashore, how much of their submarine diversity this cable represents, and what our measurements into them show.
| Country | Dependence on this cable | Other submarine cables | What the measurements show |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyprus resilience index: 88 · resilient |
1 of 15 cables (7% of submarine diversity) | Blue, CADMOS, CADMOS-2 +11 more | no measurement today; median 33 ms over 30 days (9 routes) |
| Syria resilience index: 49 · vulnerable |
1 of 6 cables (17% of submarine diversity) | Aletar, BERYTAR, Ebla +2 more | average 48 ms over the last day vs 59 ms over 30 days - faster |
Dependence is structural (share of the country's submarine cables), not a traffic share: real traffic distribution across cables is not public.
Path analysis
Traffic kept the same route. Latency rose without a visible path change, which points at congestion or a fault on the existing route rather than a reroute.
Cross-probe verdict. Other measurements did not confirm the event. We treat this as a probable false positive and label it as such.
Timeline
- Alert 2026082501: warning - ratio 2.05x
- Alert #177 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #177 resolved: RTT 7.69ms (baseline 10.25ms), 3 consecutive OK
Detection method
Latency is sampled continuously from our probe network. An alert opens when round-trip time to a monitored endpoint holds above its rolling baseline, and closes automatically once it returns. Full method is described on the methodology page.