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Alcatel declared force majeure on Meta's 2Africa cable due to Iran war operations in the Persian Gulf. For the first time, both global internet maritime chokepoints are simultaneously closed.
Russia's 2019 Sovereign Internet Law is fully operational in 2026. BGP routing is increasingly controlled by state infrastructure, major CDNs are throttled or blocked, and GitHub is intermittently inaccessible. Here is what the Runet means for developers with Russian users or infrastructure touching Russian networks.
Starlink's Gen3 satellites with laser inter-links now deliver 25.7ms median latency — competitive with fixed broadband. SpaceX is deploying V3 satellites via Starship with 10x more downlink capacity. This post covers the developer API, real latency numbers, the use cases that actually work, and what Starlink's limitations mean for application design.
Iran's internet has been at 4% of normal since Feb 28 — Day 25 as of March 24. NetBlocks calls it the largest nation-state shutdown ever. Technical breakdown inside.
17 Hormuz cables carry ~30% of intercontinental traffic. EPEG, SMW5, Gulf routes: which latencies spike if cut, and engineer failover patterns that matter.