Written by Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan Yesterday, August 30th, CenturyLink/Level 3 suffered a major incident, lasting nearly 5 hours, that impacted their network, their customers, and many other ISPs and services either directly or indirectly connected to their network. The outage began at approximately 10AM UTC (6AM EST) and…
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I cover some recent outages that made headlines. This includes the Spotify outage, caused by an expired TLS certificate, that prevented users from accessing its platform. We…
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I cover recent headlines concerning social media platform, TikTok, and the gaming provider, Epic. TikTok appears to have gained some additional time (now 90 days) before the…
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Mike sat down with our guest, Ray Hunter, a senior network consultant at Globis in the Netherlands, to talk about traditional SatComms, how it differs from newer satellite technology,…
As enterprise investments in digital transformation continue to accelerate, the Internet is becoming increasingly mission-critical to worker productivity and business continuity. Cloud and SaaS consumption have increased reliance on Internet-related infrastructures so significantly that the Internet (and cloud provider networks) have essentially become the new enterprise backbone. Yet, the Internet…
