This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, we discuss the recent outage on Verizon’s network that had widespread impacts on users in the US. ThousandEyes Broadband Agents detected an outage starting around 11:30am EST that manifested as…
In this video presentation, Sonia Gameiro, Head of Application Performance Management Consulting Practice - Europe at Orange Business Services, shares how Orange Business Services supported its customers’ business continuity needs during COVID-19 lockdowns. During the early period of the pandemic, Orange Business Services needed to increase its global network capacity…
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…
Can a country ever successfully disconnect from the Internet? Russian authorities are about to launch an interesting experiment. In response to a law passed by the Russian parliament in December 2018 to ensure the independence of the Russian Internet (Runet), authorities have organized a planned disconnection from the global Internet…
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…