Incident report · 2026090402
Palapa Ring East: 1.58× baseline latency
Resolved · 1d 23h
What we measured
| Cable | Palapa Ring East |
| Segment | Sydney, AU → Waingapu, ID |
| Detected | 2026-09-04 16:31 UTC |
| Resolved | 2026-09-06 16:31 UTC |
| Duration | 1d 23h |
| Observed latency | 229.4 ms |
| Baseline | 145.1 ms · 1.58× |
| Increase | +131% |
| Severity | warning |
Who is affected
Countries where Palapa Ring East comes ashore, how much of their submarine diversity this cable represents, and what our measurements into them show.
| Country | Dependence on this cable | Other submarine cables | What the measurements show |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 73 cables (1% of submarine diversity) | Apricot, Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1), Asia United Gateway East (AUG East) +69 more | median 240 ms today vs 232 ms over 30 days (60 routes) - unchanged |
Dependence is structural (share of the country's submarine cables), not a traffic share: real traffic distribution across cables is not public.
Timeline
- Alert 2026090402: warning - ratio 2.31x
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #184 resolved: RTT 229.37ms (baseline 145.13ms), 3 consecutive OK
Detection method
Latency is sampled continuously from our probe network. An alert opens when round-trip time to a monitored endpoint holds above its rolling baseline, and closes automatically once it returns. Full method is described on the methodology page.
How to cite
GeoCables (2026). Incident 2026090402: Palapa Ring East. https://geocables.com/incident/2026090402
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