As a site or application owner, you can build redundancy and resiliency plans for those infrastructure components that are within your control. However, there is a key piece of Internet infrastructure that has the potential to cause significant problems if it fails. It is estimated that upwards of 95% of intercontinental Internet traffic is carried over the vast web of submarine cables. When these cables get damaged, whether by natural disaster (earthquake), accident (errant anchor), or sabotage, the impact on Internet connectivity can be significant, affecting multiple networks and/or countries.

Join us as we go behind the scenes to show you what Cloudflare observed when submarine cable system outages impacted Internet traffic, so you can understand what we see and how to think about our findings in the context of your business.