The ability of states to exploit private resources at an international level is an increasingly
salient political issue. In explaining the mechanisms of this shift, the framework of …

The international network of submarine cables plays a crucial role in facilitating global
telecommunications connectivity, carrying over 99% of all internet traffic. However …

Maps of physical and logical Internet connectivity that are informed by and consistent with
each other can expand scope and improve accuracy in analysis of performance, robustness …

Google, Netflix, Meta, and Akamai serve content to users from offnet servers in thousands of
ISPs. These offnets benefit both services and ISPs, via better performance and reduced …

Submarine cables constitute the backbone of the Internet. However, these critical
infrastructure components are vulnerable to several natural and man-made threats, and …

The Venezuelan crisis, unfolding over the past decade, has garnered international attention
due to its impact on various sectors of civil society. While studies have extensively covered …

The backbone network of submarine communication cables (SCC) carries 98% of
international internet traffic. Coastal and island states strongly depend on this physical …

Almost all popular Internet services are hosted in a select set of countries, forcing other
nations to rely on international connectivity to access them. We identify nations where traffic …

Abstract The US Pacific Northwest (PNW) is one of the largest Internet infrastructure hubs for
several cloud and content providers, research networks, colocation facilities, and submarine …

We present a longitudinal study of intercontinental long-haul links (LHLs)-links with latencies
significantly higher than that of all other links in a traceroute path. Our study is motivated by …