‘Curious’ Cuban net cable has activated, researchers say
BBC News:
A high-speed fibre-optic cable connecting Cuba to the global internet appears to have finally been activated, monitoring experts have said.
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A joint project between the state-owned telecommunications companies of both Venezuela and Cuba, the Alternative Bolivariana para los Pueblos de nuestra America cable – known more succinctly as Alba-1 – had been hit by numerous delays before being completed in 2011.
But users were left in the dark as to why they were unable to get themselves hooked up to the connection, and were forced to make do with the high-latency connections provided by satellite.
But in the past week, much lower latencies – meaning faster connections – have been observed in the country, a strong indicator that the cable was now in use.
I love that we’re spying on Cuba by measuring request latencies.