ISP Outages On The Rise, Router Failure Takes Down Cloud Provider Services During COVID-19 (Week of March 23-29, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
In this inaugural episode of The Internet Report, hosts Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan of ThousandEyes discuss the health of the global Internet, focusing on outage data trends across ISPs, public cloud providers, business collaboration apps and edge networks. Guest Deepak Ravisankaran joins to walk through a recent Google services disruption that took place on March 26, 2020.
Over the past month, ThousandEyes has been flooded with questions about how the Internet is holding up given the extra strain it’s been under with the sudden influx of remote workers, remote schoolers, and overall increased use due to COVID-19 related self-isolating and shelter in place orders. We’ve put out blogs and have conducted executive, media and analyst briefings. Network World and the IDG family of publications have even started publishing our data on a weekly basis to keep its readers up to date, as things are changing so frequently.
Because of the continued interest in how the Internet is handling the current and, potentially, increasing traffic loads, we decided that now is the right time to kick off a show to answer this question each week. How is the Internet faring? What were some of the most interesting events we observed during the week? We're pleased to share the inaugural episode of The Internet Report.
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Show Links:
- Review the interactive share link of the March 27 Google Outage here and here.
- Vodafone reports a 50% rise in Internet use as more people work from home
- Verizon sees almost 20% increase in web traffic in one week due to COVID-19
- A large-scale Cogent Communications outage impacted the Northwest United States — see an interactive view of the outage here.
- Another Cogent outage impacted the reachability of Verily’s projectbaseline.com for users in Northern California — see an interactive view of the outage here.