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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

Summary: Lumen Technologies, which operates one of the largest Internet backbones, said it would stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia, citing increased security risk and the heightened risk of state action, days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent. Kentik, an Internet infrastructure monitoring firm, identified Lumen as the top international transit provider to Russia, with customers including Rostelecom, TTK and the three major mobile operators MTS, Megafon and VEON.

Bottom line: Kentik's Doug Madory called a backbone carrier disconnecting customers in a country the size of Russia without precedent in the history of the internet, and it is not clear whether any other backbone providers will follow Lumen and Cogent.

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