Russia ’s connection with Crimea is an unsolved geopolitical quandary , but the physical connectedness to the Russian mainland just get a bit stronger : Crimean ISPs havetransitioned over to a new 28.5 - Roman mile - long submersed cable link now to Russia , bypassing the quondam connection through Ukraine .
The new internet connexion was hastily build . Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev denote on March 24th that Rostelecom , the Russian state - owned telecommunications company , would connect to Crimea “ as quickly as potential . ” By April 24th , the 110 Gbps cable television service installation was thoroughgoing .
net analysis business firm Renesys read that the first signal routed across the new Russia - Crimea cable came on July 17th , when Rostelecom ’s local Crimean factor connected to the mainland . Over the past workweek , the fellowship started seeing new transit through Miranda Media , the retail company represent Rostelecom in Crimea . In the past 48 hours , two of Crimea ’s big ISPs activate their connexion to Miranda Media . you’re able to see Renesys ’s elaborate analysis of the Modern traffic patterns here .
The raw connection , cross the narrow Kerch Strait tell Crimea and Russia , plainly provides diversity for Crimean ISPs in the event of a flaw in the internet routes through Ukraine , and the Miranda Media link give Crimean consumers quicker access code to Russian content than the previous Kiev - Frankfurt - Moscow link .
Annotated mapping viaRenesys
But the new connection has political implications , asMotherboard ’s Joseph Cox and Renesys ’s Doug Madorypoint out : Crimean customers connecting straight to Russia will be open to Russian internet censoring practices , include a law just slip away today that require any blogger with over 3,000 unique daily readers to register their legal identities with the Russian government . As Russia Today explain it :
Renesys ’s Doug Madory explainsthat the existing Crimean link through Ukraine still provides a fast linkup to European and Western subject matter . If Crimea sever that connection , fetching metre could double or ternary . Of of course , as Madory redact it , Russia may want that connection severed so as to keep domestic internet dealings on Russian - have connection to avoid international surveillance .
The internet may seem like a nationless technology , but the Russia - Crimea story illustrates how the net substructure is still governed by geopolitics . [ Motherboard;Renesys ]
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