Internet weather

5 Sep 2026, 00:00-24:00 UTC

1 new national outage and 4 new cable incidents.

World latency index 104 (+2 vs the previous day).

The main points

Country outages

• Iraq new Scheduled shutdown, reachable networks down 67%; started 03:30; ended 04:10, after 40 min

Submarine cable incidents

• Palapa Ring West continues latency up to 2.7× normal; started 4 Sep 22:31; still open
• Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG) System new latency up to 2.4× normal; started 04:31; ended 17:32, after 13.0 h
• Bosun new latency up to 2.3× normal; started 13:32; still open
• Batam Sarawak Internet Cable System (BaSICS) ended latency up to 2.2× normal; started 4 Sep 22:31; ended 09:32, after 11.0 h
• North-West Cable System new latency up to 2× normal; started 08:33; ended 13:01, after 4.5 h
• JAKABARE new latency up to 2× normal; started 01:32; ended 09:32, after 8.0 h

Latency index

100 = the usual latency of each route. Above 100 traffic is slower than usual. Change is against the previous day and the same day a week earlier.

Chokepoints that moved most

• Lampedusa latency index +16 to 117Week: +16
• Marsala latency index +14 to 114Week: +16
• Tanjung Pakis latency index +5 to 106Week: +11
• Batam latency index +4 to 106Week: +5
• Tong Fuk latency index +4 to 100Week: 0

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