The research firm said that the event effectively removed the country from the internet.
Renesys later updated that 77 Syrian networks experienced an outage beginning at 10:26am all of which were owned by the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment. This number represents 92% of all routed networks in the country.
A series of events were recorded in the build up to today’s shut down including an outage of nine networks at 12:08pm GMT on November 27 and a restoration of 14 networks at 2:14pm GMT on the same day.