Two notable outages
On December 30, Neustar, a U.S. based mostly expertise service supplier headquartered in Sterling, VA, skilled an outage that impacted a number of downstream suppliers, in addition to Neustar clients inside a number of areas, together with the U.S., Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, the U.Ok., Spain, Romania, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Costa Rica, Eire, Japan, India, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. The outage, lasting a complete of 1 hour and 40 minutes, was first noticed round 2:00 PM EST and appeared to initially middle on Neustar nodes situated in Los Angeles, CA, and Washington, D.C. Round 10 minutes into the outage, nodes situated in Washington, D.C., had been changed by nodes situated in Ashburn, VA, in exhibiting outage situations. Round 10 minutes later, nodes situated in Virginia, VA, and Los Angeles, CA, appeared to clear and had been changed by nodes situated in Dallas, TX and San Jose, CA, in exhibiting outage situations. 5 minutes later, these nodes had been changed by nodes situated in London, England, Ashburn, VA, New York, NY, and Washington, D.C. An extra 5 minutes later, these nodes had been joined by nodes situated in Dallas, TX, in exhibiting outage situations. This improve in nodes exhibiting outage situations additionally appeared to coincide with a rise within the variety of downstream companions and areas impacted. The outage was cleared round 3:40 PM EST. Click on right here for an interactive view.
On January 4, AT&T skilled an outage on their community that impacted AT&T clients and companions throughout a number of areas together with the U.S., Eire, the Philippines, the U.Ok., France, and Canada. The outage, lasting round 23 minutes, was first noticed round 3:35 AM EST, showing to initially middle on AT&T nodes situated in Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA, and New York, NY. Round ten minutes into the outage, nodes situated in Phoenix, AZ, and San Jose, CA, appeared to clear, leaving simply nodes situated in Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY, exhibiting outage situations. This lower in nodes exhibiting outage situations appeared to coincide with a drop within the variety of impacted companions and clients. The outage was cleared at round 4:00 AM EST. Click on right here for an interactive view.