Papua New Guinea experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) disruption on August 24, 2026, lasting approximately 75 minutes. The event began at 03:50 UTC and concluded by 05:05 UTC, with a severity score of 188 recorded for the affected BGP signal.
Technical Details
The disruption was characterized by a drop in the median BGP signal, which measures control plane visibility for network prefixes. The signal dropped by 3% from its peak during the observation window. Concurrently, other connectivity metrics showed fluctuations: the ping-slash24 signal, measuring ICMP reachability across IPv4 /24 prefixes, saw a 26% drop, while the merit-nt backscatter measurement, a proxy for aggregate connectivity, fell by 100% from its peak. The gtr-norm signal, which tracks deviations from an expected traffic baseline, also decreased by 73%.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 05:05 UTC.
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