The dependability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud suppliers and conferencing services (a.k.a. unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS)) is a sign of how well served services are via the internet.ThousandEyes is monitoring how these service providers are dealing with the efficiency obstacles they deal with. It will offer Network World a roundup of fascinating events of the week in the delivery of these services, and Network World will supply a summary here. Stop back next week for another upgrade, and see more details here. Updated Dec. 12 Worldwide outages throughout all 3 classifications last week increased from 282 to 347, up 23%. In
the US, they increased
from 78 to 90, up 15%. Internationally, ISP outages increased from 210 to 281, up 34%, and in the United States they increased from 61 to 76
, up 25 %. Worldwide, cloud-provider network blackouts dropped from 8 to four, and in the United States stayed the same at two
. Worldwide, collaboration-app network failures jumped from one to 7, and in the US dropped from one to zero.Two notable blackouts
: About 2:30 p.m. EST on December 5, AWS’s Ohio-based us-east-2 area experienced a connection concern that appeared to affect
some consumer web
connection to and from the area, identified by significant package loss between it and international areas. The loss was seen only in between end-users connecting by means of ISPs and didn’t appear to affect connectivity between circumstances within the area or in between regions. The packet loss continued for more than an hour before resolving around 3:50 p.m. EST. Click here for an interactive view.On December 7, NTT America experienced a blackout impacting customers and downstream partners throughout the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Republic of Korea, and Japan. The 13-minute failure was first observed around 12:15 a.m. EST and appeared to center on NTT nodes in Newark, New Jersey, and Ashburn, Virginia. Ten minutes after being observed, the Ashburn nodes appeared to clear. The failure was cleared around 12:30 a.m. EST. Click on this link for an interactive view.Updated Dec. 5 Worldwide blackouts across all three categories last week increased from 222 to 282, up 27 %. In the United States, failures increased from 48 to 78, up 63 %. Worldwide ISP interruptions increased from 173 to 210, up 21%, and in the US increased from 32 to 61, up 90 %. Global cloud-provider network interruptions jumped from 4 to 8, while in the United States they remained at two.Global collaboration-app network interruptions dropped from 6 to one, and in the U.S., from five to one.Two notable interruptions: On November 29, TATA Communications (America )Inc., experienced an interruption impacting a lot of its downstream partners and clients including in the US, Canada, the UK, France
, the Netherlands, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, India, Germany, Hong Kong
, and Singapore. The 33-minute outage was first observed around 9:20 a.m. EST, and apparently centered on TATA
nodes in Newark, New Jersey. Ten minutes later on the interruption appeared to consist of nodes in New York, New York; London
, England; Marseille, France
; and Pune and Bangalore, India. This appeared to coincide with the peak in the number of areas, downstream partners, and consumers affected. Around 5 minutes after the peak, just nodes in Newark, London, and Marseille exhibited failure conditions. The outage was cleared around 9:55 a.m. EST. Click here for an interactive view.On December 1, Microsoft experienced a problem impacting user access to some Microsoft services, consisting of Workplace 365, mainly in … Source
