Cameroon Experienced BGP Control Plane Disruption on July 28
Cameroon’s internet control plane experienced a disruption late on July 28, lasting for approximately one hour. The event, which began at 23:35 UTC and concluded by 00:30 UTC on July 29, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal. The disruption…
Cameroon’s internet control plane experienced a disruption late on July 28, lasting for approximately one hour. The event, which began at 23:35 UTC and concluded by 00:30 UTC on July 29, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal. The disruption registered a severity score of 80.
Technical Details
The primary affected signal was BGP, which measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for a country’s IP address prefixes. During the event, the BGP median value dropped by 1% from its peak. Other network telemetry signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter measurements, showed minor concurrent fluctuations but no major outages in the data plane.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Network conditions were reported as restored by the end of the observation window.
