After looking at the countries most impacted by the cable cut in our first blog on this topic, we now turn our attention to the Internet service providers in the region and how they fared. Due to differences in network architecture, cable ownership, and transit purchasing, carriers in the same country may not all experience the same degree of outage. For all of the following, we consider a network to be "outaged" when it is unreachable from the perspective of the broader Internet—as represented by Renesys's 250 peering sessions.
The following two tables provide the top 15 providers with the largest number of outaged networks. We list the provider's name, the country in which most of their unreachable networks are located and their autonomous system number (ASN), an assigned number that uniquely identifies their organization on the Internet.
In the first table, we list the providers in decreasing order by total number of outaged networks. In the second table, we list them by decreasing order of the percentage of their networks that are unreachable.Not surprisingly, the hardest hit providers are located primarily in the hardest hit countries: Egypt, Kuwait, India and Pakistan. One local provider in each of Egypt and Kuwait lost essentially all of their Internet connectivity.
