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Benin

ISO Code: BEN

1

Landing Points

3

Cables

21

Connected

182

Reachable

1.5

Redundancy

gateway

Role

Directly Connected Countries

Angola Côte d'Ivoire Cameroon Spain France Gabon Ghana Guinea Gambia Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Liberia Morocco Mauritania Nigeria Portugal Senegal Sierra Leone Sao Tome and Principe Togo South Africa

Cables

Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)17 countries Maroc Telecom West Africa4 countries SAT-3/WASC10 countries

Landing Points

Cotonou, Benin

3 cables

182

Reachable Countries

1.5

Redundancy Score

182

Transit Dependencies

Low Redundancy Destinations

Exact bounded path counts are shown for selected direct and nearby destinations. Other destinations use approximate representative counts. 22 exact · 160 approximate

Sao Tome and Principe

Transit Dependencies

Score emphasizes lost reachable countries first, then lost representative paths, nearby destinations, and direct-neighbor exposure.

3 countries lost · 3 representative paths · 0 nearby

Congo, Dem. Rep.

2 countries lost · 6 representative paths · 1 nearby

2 countries lost · 2 representative paths · 1 nearby

2 countries lost · 2 representative paths · 0 nearby

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

Equatorial Guinea

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

1 countries lost · 5 representative paths · 1 nearby · 1 direct

Concentration

These are structural concentration measures from the country-topology graph. They do not represent traffic, latency, or capacity share.

100%

Top LP Share

59%

Top Gateway Share

99%

Top Cable Share

1.00

LP HHI

0.50

Gateway HHI

1.33

Cable HHI

Top Landing Points

Cotonou, Benin100%

Top Gateway Countries

France59%Côte d'Ivoire37%Gabon7%Ghana5%Nigeria5%

Cable Failure Impact

Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) failure

Loses: France, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe

Maroc Telecom West Africa failure

Loses: Morocco, Togo

SAT-3/WASC failure

Loses: Angola, Cameroon

Landing Point Failure Impact

Cotonou, Benin failure

Loses 3 cables

Loses: Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Spain, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Morocco, Mauritania, Nigeria, Portugal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Togo, South Africa

Country becomes isolated

Top Combinations From Bounded Candidate Search

Results come from bounded candidate search, not exhaustive N-2 enumeration. Evaluated 3 cable candidates and 1 landing-point candidates before ranking blocked-state recomputations. 3 cable-pair · 0 landing-point-pair · 3 mixed-pair evaluations

Cable pair

africa-coast-to-europe-ace + maroc-telecom-west-africa

5 lost direct countries

Cable pair

africa-coast-to-europe-ace + sat-3wasc

5 lost direct countries

Cable pair

maroc-telecom-west-africa + sat-3wasc

0 lost direct countries

Role

gateway

Benin acts as a gateway because its network-relative degree, reach, or gateway-share signal is elevated; the gateway-share signal is around the 58th percentile.

Role labels are network-relative classifications derived from degree, reachable-country count, bridge coverage, and gateway concentration within the country-topology graph.

21

Degree

182

Reachable

0

Bridge Pairs

0%

Bridge Coverage

Bridge Dependencies

No strong local bridge dependencies detected.