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 did not fully resolve until […]
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. This week’s episode is brought to you by the letter “O” for outages — in particular, there were a number of broadband providers, globally, that suffered localized outages this past week. After we…
The home office has seen significant growth due to COVID-19 and the widespread social distancing and shelter-in-place orders. We are now working more, or almost exclusively, remotely, and it is questionable whether this trend will change again after the crisis.
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, we cover a widespread T-Mobile outage that took down its cellular network for several hours and elicited a rare condemnation from the FCC. The culprit, according to the carrier,…
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, we discuss a recent BGP-related outage at a major public cloud provider, as well as a recent announcement that Cogent Networks has rolled out RPKI in an effort to…
The intensity and the rapid spread of COVID-19 have taken everyone by surprise, forcing many companies to implement work-from-home (WFH) policies with a clearly defined objective: to maintain business as usual. Business continuity and resiliency are being stressed beyond what many had anticipated. Extraordinary events, such as extreme weather conditions…