Globally, collaboration-app network outages decreased from eight to seven, while in the US they dropped from six to three.
On Nov. 22, Telia Carrier experienced an outage that impacted customers and partners across countries including the US, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. First observed around 11:20 p.m. EST, the outage appeared to center on nodes in Atlanta, Georgia. Nodes in San Francisco, California, exhibited outage conditions 10 minutes and appeared to recover around 11:35 p.m. EST. The Atlanta outage continued and was cleared around 11:50 p.m. EST. Click here for an interactive view of the outage.
On Nov. 23, Cogent Communications, experienced an outage affecting providers and customers in countries, including the US, Spain, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and Australia. The outage played out in three occurrences over an hour and five minutes starting around 1:20 a.m. EST centered on Cogent nodes in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, California, and Washington, DC. The first occurrence lasted four minutes before all nodes appeared to recover. The second occurrence started 25 minutes later around 1:50 a.m. EST and lasted around eight minutes. It appeared to center on nodes in Sacramento. Five minutes into the second occurrence nodes in San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City, Utah exhibited outage conditions. The third occurrence started 10 minutes after the second appeared to clear and affected nodes in Atlanta, Georgia. The outage lasted a total of 21 minutes and was cleared at around 2:25 a.m. EST. Click here for an interactive view of the outage.
Update Nov. 15
Global outages across all three categories increased from 307 to 360, a 17% increase compared to the week prior. In the U.S., outages increased from 141 to 163, a 16% increase.
Globally ISP outages increased from 221 to 259, up 17%, and in the US they increased from 111 to 135, up 22%.
Globally, cloud-provider network outages increased from 16 to 27, a 69% increase, and in the US, they rose from one to two.
Globally, collaboration-app network outages rose from six to 11, and from six to nine in the US.
On Nov. 9, Comcast Cable Communications experienced two outages that affected downstream partners and customers across the US. The first outage, lasting over an hour, was observed at approximately 12:45 a.m. EST and appeared to center on Comcast nodes in Sunnyvale, California, and primarily affecting customers on the West Coast. After appearing to clear around 1:25 AM EST, they again exhibited outage conditions, before clearing 1:35 a.m. EST. The second outage observed about 8:05 a.m. lasted over an hour and intermittently impacted routes across regions including Chicago, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Ashburn, Virginia. The outage was cleared around 9:20 a.m. EST.
On Nov. 11, NTT America experienced an outage that impacted some of its customers and downstream partners across the US, Brazil, China, Japan, and Canada. Observed around 1 p.m. EST, the 19-minute outage appeared to center on NTT nodes in Osaka, Japan. Five minutes later, nodes in San Jose, California, also began to exhibit outage conditions. Around 1:10 p.m. EST the San Jose nodes appeared to recover, and the outage was cleared around 1:20 p.m. EST
Update Nov. 8
Global outages in all three categories increased from 278 to 307, a 10% increase compared to the week prior. In the US, however, they decreased from 147 to 141, a 4% dip.
Globally, ISP increased from 197 to 221, up 12%, and also increased in the US from 109 to 111, up 2%.
Cloud-provider network outages globally decreased from 22 to 16 outages, and in the US, dropped from five to one.
Globally, collaboration-app network outages, all of them in the US, decreased from eight to six.
Two notable outages:
On Nov. 4, Telia Carrier experienced an outage affecting customers and downstream partners across the US. The disruption lasted a total of 43 minutes, divided into two occurrences over a 55-minute period. First observed around 7:40 a.m. EDT, the first occurrence lasted 39 minutes cetnered on nodes in Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. Five minutes later, the Phoenix nodes appeared to recover, before appearing to exhibit outages again 10 minutes later. The Los Angenes nodes appeared to recover 35 minutes after first being observed, leaving the Phoenix nodes the only ones exhibiting outage conditions. The outage was cleared around 8:35 a.m. EDT.
On Nov. 4, Cogent Communications experienced an outage affecting some downstream providers and customers in the US, Mexico, Hong Kong, Canada, the UK, Germany, and Singapore. The 33-minute outage was observed around 10:15 p.m. EDT centered on nodes in Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. After 15 minutes, nodes in Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, San Francisco, California, and Denver, Colorado, also showed outage conditions. Five minutes later the Cleveland and Cincinnati nodes appeared to recover, leaving the US as the only affected country. Thirty minutes after the initial occurrance, only the Chicago nodes showed outage conditions. The outage was cleared around 10:50 p.m. EDT.
Update Nov. 1
Outages globally across all three categories decreased from 354 to 278, a 21% drop compared to the week before. In the US they decreased from 154 to 147, down 5%.
ISP outages globally decreased from 254 to 197, down 22%, and from 112 to 109 in the US, down 3%
Both globally (22) and in the US (5), cloud-provider network outages remained the same.
Collaboration app network outages increased from one to eight, all of them in the US.
There were two notable outages during the week.
On Oct. 27, Hurricane Electric experienced an outage that affected customers and partners across countries including the US, the UK, Russia, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Finland, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada. The outage was divided into eight occurrences over two hours and 10 minutes. The first, lasting around 5 minutes, was observed at around 9:29 p.m. EDT, centering on Hurricane Electric nodes located in New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. Around 15 minutes after it appeared to clear, the second one started. Five minutes into it, nodes in Ashburn, Virginia exhibited outages. Around 10 p.m. EDT, all the nodes appeared to recover, but 10 minutes later the nodes in Chicago began exhibiting outage conditions again for about two minutes. Fifteen minutes later, nodes in New York and Chicago again exhibited outage conditions. Nodes in those locations repeatedly appeared to recover then exhibited outage conditions for the next five occurrences. The total outage lasted around 40 minutes and was cleared at around 11:40 p.m. EDT
On Oct. 25, Rackspace Technology experienced an outage affecting some customers and partners across countries including the US, France, the UK, Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Switzerland, Canada, and the Netherlands. The outage, lasting around 28 minutes, was observed around 10:46 a.m. EDT and appeared to center on Rackspace nodes in Chicago, Illinois. Twenty minutes later, some of the nodes apparently began to recover before clearing at around 11:15 a.m. EDT.
Update Oct. 25
Global outages across all three categories dropped from 387 to 354, a 9% decrease compared to the week prior. In the US, outages decreased from 185 to 154, down 17%.
The number of ISP outages globally dropped from 281 to 254, down 10%, and US outages dropped from 150 to 112, down 25%.
Globally, cloud-provider outages decreased from 30 to 22, down 27%, while in the US, they were cut in half, from 10 to five.
There was just one collaboration-app network outage and that was in the US. The previous week there were two outages globally.
There were two notable outages during the week.
On Oct. 19, Hurricane Electric, experienced an outage affecting customers and downstream partners across the US, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Malaysia, and Canada. The outage was divided into three occurrences over 34 minutes, starting at 1:51 a.m. EDT, centering on Hurricane Electric nodes in Chicago, Illinois. Around five minutes after the first occurrence appeared to clear, outage conditions appeared at nodes located in Los Angeles, California that lasted around eight minutes. The outage was cleared around 2:25 a.m. EDT.
On Oct. 21, Level 3 Communications experienced an outage affecting multiple downstream partners and customers. The outage lasted around 11 minutes total, divided between two occurrences distributed over a 25-minute period. The first lasted around eight minutes and was observed around 5:30 a.m. EDT and appeared centered on Level 3 nodes in Phoenix, Arizona. It appeared to clear, but 10 minutes later the Phoenix nodes exhibited outage conditions again. The outage was cleared around 5:55 a.m. EDT.
Update Oct. 18
Global outages across all three categories increased from 352 to 387, a 10% increase, and from 184 to 185 in the US.
The number of ISP outages increased from 270 to 281, and decreased in the US from 163 to 150.
Globally, cloud-provider network outages rose from 18 to 30, while in the US, they increased from three to 10.
Collaboration-app network outages worldwide increased from one to two, and stayed the same at one in the US.
There were two notable outages during the week. On October 13, GTT Communications experienced an outage that affected partners and customers across countries including the US, China, the UK, Ireland, India, and Japan. The 44-minute outage was first observed around 11:10 p.m. EDT, initially center on GTT nodes in London, England, and San Jose, California. Twenty-five minutes later nodes in San Jose appeared to recover. The outage was cleared around 11:55 p.m. EDT.
On October 11, Microsoft experienced an outage on their network that affected downstream partners and access to services running on Microsoft environments. The 34-minute outage was first observed around 5:05 p.m. EDT centered on Microsoft nodes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Five minutes later, nodes in Frankfurt, Germany, began exhibiting outage conditions, affecting more partners. Around 5:15 p.m. EDT, the nodes located in Frankfurt appeared to recover. The outage was cleared around 5:40 p.m. EDT. Given the duration and timing, relative to the location of the nodes at the center of the outage, it is likely to have been a maintenance exercise.
Update Oct. 11
Outages across all three categories during the past week increased from 323 to 352, up 9%. In the US, outages increased from 161 to 184, a 14% increase.
Globally, ISP outages went from 239 to 270, up13%, while in the US, ISP outages increased from 132 to 163, up 23%.
Cloud provider network outages dropped from 26 to 18, down 31%. In the US, they dopped by half, from six to three.
There was one collaboration-app network outage, and that occurred in the US, dropping the worldwide and US levels from six the week before.
On Oct 4, Facebook ‘s backbone network suffered an outage that disconnected its data centers globally, making Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp unavailable to all users for more than seven hours. Initially observed around 11:40 a.m. EDT, the backbone network outage triggered a second issue: Facebook's authoritative name servers, detecting that the network connection was “unhealthy,” stopped advertising routes to Facebook's servers, rendering the services inaccessible. Facebook identified the root cause of the outage as a faulty configuration change and implemented a fix. Around 6:20 p.m. EDT, connectivity to services began to return, and the outage cleared around 6:45 p.m. EDT. A more detailed analysis of the outage can be found here.
On Oct. 7, Telia Carrier, a Tier 1 ISP headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, experienced an outage affecting customers and downstream partners in the US, Spain, Germany, Austria, the UK, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Egypt, the Netherlands, India, and Canada. First observed around noon EDT, the outage initially centered on nodes in Ashburn, Virginia, and Sweden. Five minutes later the nodes in Sweden appeared to recover, while nodes in Newark, New Jersey, and London, England, began exhibiting outage conditions, increasing the number of countries and downstream partners affected. All except the London nodes appeared to recover 35 minutes after first being observed. The outage lasted an hour and 14 minutes and was cleared around 1:15 p.m. EDT.
Update Oct. 4
Global outages across all three categories last week decreased from 367 to 323, a 12% dip compared to the week prior. US outages remained the same at 161.
Globally, the number of ISP outages increased from 233 to 239, and in the US they increased from 115 to 132, up 15%.
Cloud-provider network outages worldwide dropped from 41 to 26, down 37%, while in the US they increased from four to six.
Both globally and in the US, collaboration-app network outages decreased by two, from eight to six.
There were two notable outages during the week.
On September 30, Oracle experienced an outage that affected customers and downstream partners interacting with Oracle Cloud services in the US. The outage was observed around 4:01 p.m. EDT and appeared to center on Oracle nodes in Frankfurt, Germany, and Arlington and Ashburn, Virginia. Five minutes later, all nodes except those in Arlington appeared to recover. The outage lasted 7 minutes and was cleared around 4:10 p.m. EDT.