Arelion faced a 24-minute hiccup on January 29, affecting partners and customers in the US and Australia from 12:40 PM EST. Similarly, GTT Communications encountered a 39-minute glitch on February 12 that caused disruptions from the US to Japan, but cleared by 3:45 AM EST.
For more network hiccups trivia, in the following week of March 3-9, there were 425 outages globally, a 5% drop from the previous week. In the US, 199 outages were identified, a 5% increase from the week prior.
On March 5, Arelion had a 35-minute outage impacting clients worldwide, starting around 2:10 AM EST primarily at nodes in Ashburn, VA. By 2:50 AM EST, services were restored.
Lastly, on January 4, AT&T suffered a 23-minute blackout affecting services in various regions, particularly nodes in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and New York before recovering by 4:00 AM EST. Time Warner Cable, on March 13, faced a 47-minute meltdown, starting at 1:00 AM EDT and initially impacting nodes in New York and Dallas.
In summary, network outages were quite dynamic, with fluctuations each week, spanning major carriers and providers facing intermittent disruptions across international networks.
Then, on February 2, Cogent faced another hiccup that impacted customers and partners in the US, Poland, and Spain. Lasting 22 minutes, the disruption focused on nodes in Washington, D.C., but resolved by 3:55 AM EST.
During the week of February 17-23, ThousandEyes reported 397 network outages worldwide, a 7% increase from the previous week. For the US, 199 outages were recorded, up by 2%.
A more widespread incident occurred on March 21, when Cogent’s transit services had difficulties affecting providers and clients globally, from Mexico to India. The roughly 13-minute issue began around 6:35 AM EDT, centered at their Washington, D.C. nodes before spreading to New York and Atlanta. Fortunately, everything was fixed by 6:50 AM EDT.
Microsoft experienced over an hour and 22-minute outage on March 3, causing disturbance for partners and services in the US, Canada, and other regions, before resolving around 1:05 PM EST.
Cogent Communications had some rough patches on February 18, causing disruptions for their partners and customers in places like Brazil and Hong Kong. The glitch lasted for about 20 minutes and mainly affected their nodes in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Dallas. Luckily, everything was back to normal by 8:40 AM EST.
