You might have heard about a topic that’s gaining some attention in industry discussions (such as in the recent ZDnet.com article), about an event that could potentially cause significant disruptions across the Internet - the so-called “768k Day”. This day is the point in time sometime in the near future…
On the morning of December 27th, ThousandEyes monitors picked up a major service outage on the CenturyLink network impacting AS 209. A quick scan of social media revealed that users all across the US were reporting issues with not just DIA services but also critical services like E911 and traditional…
On November 12th, 2018, between 1:00 PM and 2:23 PM PST, ThousandEyes noticed issues connecting to G Suite, a critical application for our organization. Reviewing ThousandEyes Endpoint Agent stats, we noticed this was impacting all users at the ThousandEyes office. The outage not only affected G Suite, but also Google…
The silence is deafening. You run from device to device, trying desperately to reach someone — anyone. No matter how hard you try, you can’t connect to the applications you need. You can’t even file a complaint. They’re simply not there. They’ve...disappeared. You suddenly remember that your McSocial app will…
Earlier today, beginning at 9:20am Pacific Time, Comcast suffered a network outage on its backbone that left millions of Internet users in the United States—even beyond their own subscriber base—unable to reach critical sites and services. The outage wasn't contained to a particular region, as Internet users from Seattle to…