Togo Experienced Brief BGP Disruption on July 7

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Togo experienced a brief connectivity disruption late on July 7, primarily affecting the network control plane. The event lasted approximately 15 minutes, starting at 23:35 UTC and ending by 23:50 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 51. The primary affected signal was the BGP median, which measures the visibility of network routing information in the global control plane. This signal recorded a drop of 3% from its peak during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed no significant deviations during this short event.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored within the same observation period.