{"id":28735,"date":"2020-09-16T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28735"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:07:54","slug":"sandvine-halts-supplies-of-internet-blocking-equipment-to-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sandvine-halts-supplies-of-internet-blocking-equipment-to-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandvine halts supplies of internet-blocking equipment to Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American company Sandvine, whose products were used to filter internet traffic in Belarus, will no longer supply its technologies to the country. <\/span>Bloomberg.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

According to the company’s preliminary investigation, a custom code was added to its products to “disrupt the free flow of information during the Belarus elections.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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“This is a human rights violation that led to the automatic termination of our end-user license agreement,” the paper quotes Sandvine’s statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The company will stop providing software updates and maintenance for its equipment, which is used in Belarus by the National Traffic Exchange Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

That does not mean the equipment will stop functioning. It can be used in the short term, Sandvine stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, was reported<\/a> that Sandvine equipment is installed in two locations in Minsk. It can block 40% of all inbound and outbound internet traffic in the country and add up to 150 million URLs to the blacklist.<\/span><\/p>\n

As reported amid the presidential elections in Belarus and the protests that followed across the country began to report<\/a> internet outages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities attributed this to “foreign interference,” but many experts are convinced that it was an internet shutdown by the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily losses from the shutdown in Belarus were estimated<\/a> at $56 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts told ForkLog, how to bypass the blocks<\/a> and in which cases this is not possible, and whether satellite internet such as Starlink can help.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Starlink as a panacea for blockages: will Elon Musk help counter internet shutdowns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n