Ethiopia experienced a disruption to its internet routing control plane on Tuesday morning, lasting approximately 50 minutes. The event began at 07:40 UTC and concluded by 08:30 UTC, primarily affecting the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 276. The affected BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for the country’s IP address prefixes on the global internet. During the event, the BGP median value showed a 6% drop from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability and traffic volume forecasts, remained within normal operational ranges.
The cause has not been publicly attributed. Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.
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