Belize experienced a brief but notable disruption to its internet routing control plane on August 18, 2026. The event, which affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, lasted for approximately 55 minutes, starting at 17:15 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 57. 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 median BGP visibility dropped by approximately 1% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability (ping-slash24) and traffic volume (gtr-norm), showed minor concurrent fluctuations of 3% and 22%, respectively.
The cause has not been publicly attributed. Network connectivity was reported restored by 18:10 UTC.
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