Network AF welcomes Doug Madory back to the podcast to discuss current events, including Russia invading Ukraine, and recent internet-related issues in Syria and Egypt. Doug is Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, and uses BGP and traffic data to write about happenings with networks on a worldwide scale. Together with Kentik CEO and show host Avi Freedman, the two dive into the real-world implication of geopolitical events on the state of networking.

Highlights of today's conversation include:

• [01:35] The current situation in Ukraine
• [05:30] Route-jacking, forcing traffic through unknown infrastructure
• [09:24] What internet activity looks like in Ukraine now
• [12:09] Egypt and the cable "cutting" event, discussing submarine consortium cables
• [17:37] The paths of submarine and overland circuit connections, how it impacts the flow of internet access across countries
• [22:20] Connectivity can be much more network topological than geographically topological
• [25:36] Syria and shutting down the Internet as the new norm