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[SECTION] 10 = INTERNET DISRUPTIONS + EVENTS
traffic to complete country-wide outages lasting for hours, as seen in
Figure 45 and corroborated by Dyn Research. 56 The longest of these
outages occurred on June 2, when Akamai traffic to Syria dropped to
zero from approximately 5:00 a.m. to 7:50 a.m. utc. Then, on June 7,
8, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15, Akamai traffic to Syria dropped to nearly zero
for some portion of the time between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00
a.m. On four of those dates, traffic stayed at nearly zero for almost
those entire two hours. Finally, on June 19 and 20, Akamai traffic to
Syria dropped to about one-third of previous levels at approximately
12:25 p.m. and 11:45 a.m. respectively. The cause of these various
disruptions is unknown.
10.3 Kenya / At approximately 8:35 a.m. utc on June 7, Akamai saw
its traffic levels to Kenya drop in half, eventually recovering over the
next several hours, as seen in Figure 46. This disruption occurred
due to a nationwide power blackout caused by a lone monkey falling
onto a transformer at one of Kenya’s primary hydroelectric plants. 57
Power was restored to some areas within 15 minutes, although full
restoration took four hours.
58 / The State of the Internet / Q2 2016