The Internet Report

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The Internet Report episodes

May 04, 2020 Cloudflare Calls on ISPs to Take BGP Security Seriously; Plus Virgin Media Has Outage Deja Vu (Week of April 27-May 3) | Outage Deep Dive
On this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I are thrilled to be joined by Martin Levy, who is a distinguished engineer at Cloudflare focused on BGP route security and expanding Cloudflare's global network footprint. Check out this week’s episode to hear his thoughts on BGP security, best practices such as using RPKI and some recent routing incidents.
After speaking with Levy and hearing his perspective, we jump over to a discussion around some notable outages this past week, particularly one at Virgin Media that affected connectivity for users in the UK for several hours. After going through these events, we cover off on our usual health check of ISP, cloud, and collaboration service providers.
34 min
April 27, 2020 CenturyLink/Level 3 Suffers Fiber Cut, FCC Cracks Down on China Telecom, and Public vs. Private Internet Exchanges—Which Is Best? (Week of April 20-26) | Outage Deep Dive
In this week’s episode, Archana and I are joined by a special guest, Christian Koch, who is the head of product, cloud and ecosystem at PacketFabric. Listen in as we cover the current state of global Internet health and dive into network outage numbers across ISPs, public cloud, and collaboration platforms.
This week, we saw that the overall number of outages wasn’t particularly concerning, reflecting our “new normal,” but there were a few notable outages that had far-reaching impacts. In particular, an outage at Tata Communications and a fiber cut at Level 3/CenturyLink had significant end-user impacts, as did another outage that took down access to GitHub.
29 min
April 20, 2020 ISPs Back in the Spotlight, US Banks Stimulus Check Stumble, Is Netflix Breaking the Internet? (Week of April 13-19, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive

28 min
April 13, 2020 Outages Hit Record Lows, Unemployment Sites Hit Network Snags, Plus, Meet The Internet Society (Week of April 6-12, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
In this week’s episode, Archana and I welcomed David Belson (@dbelson) of the Internet Society. We got to discuss some rather good news -- overall outage events are down more than 40% globally, and more than 44% in the U.S. after a several-week-long spike in events. We very well may be looking at our ‘new normal’.
34 min
April 07, 2020 Collaboration App Networks Have Particularly Bad Week, Rostelecom BGP Bungle (Again) (Week of March 30-April 5, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
It was yet another eventful week on the Internet, folks. In this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I discuss the latest figures around global Internet performance, noting that, despite an elevation in outages last month, the Internet is holding up well. ISP outages declined slightly in the U.S. and globally last week, but that wasn’t the case for UCaaS providers, who had a particularly rough time last week, especially in the United States. There was also a fairly large BGP route hijack on April 1 courtesy of Russian ISP, Rostelecom — the same ISP responsible for a route hijacking incident back in 2017. The prefixes involved belonged to Amazon, Cloudflare, and other services, and impacted the reachability of sites like Yelp.com.
31 min
March 30, 2020ISP Outages On The Rise, Router Failure Takes Down Cloud Provider Services During COVID-19 (Week of March 23-29, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
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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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.
20 min