network outage
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Russia’s increased attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure has significantly impacting the besieged country’s connectivity, with data from NetBlocks suggesting Ukraine's internet connectivity has suffered a “significant decline”. -
Singtel-backed Australian operator Optus has been fined more than A$12 million (US$7.9 million) after it failed to provide access to emergency services following a nationwide outage.
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Intelsat’s IS-33e satellite has broken into pieces causing outages for customers in Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific.
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The KDDI network outage from this past weekend should be classified as a “serious incident”, Yasushi Kaneko, Japan’s internal affairs and communications minister said on Sunday.
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Telcos support Ukraine as Russian operators face blocks
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Telcos themselves are providers and as such can create outages, so they need to use automation tools and strategies when deploying new applications and provisioning new infrastructure to properly mitigate risk. Kris Beevers, CEO, NS1 explains
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Online, failure is a fact of life – and service provision. However, as Neil Miller, director, solutions engineering, Cisco ThousandEyes, writes, the severity of outages can be mitigated
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Fastly has confirmed that a software bug was behind the outage that brought down its edge cloud platform yesterday.
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Microsoft it taking the rough with the smooth this week as it announced the launch of Azure for Operators, while tackling a major global outage.
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Market research conducted by Opengear has concluded that challenges in getting engineers on site is driving a change in how out-of-band (OOB) network is utilised.
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Telecommunication operators could see up to a 10% “annual negative revenue impact” as a result of the Covid-19 recession, with some services requiring 18 to 24 months to return to pre-Covid levels.
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Insight published over the last few hours has potentially solved the mystery of a widespread internet outage that saw global traffic drop by 3.5%.
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Five UK service providers paid out automatic compensation worth more than £20 million between July and December 2019.
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Internet outages around the world reached new record levels last week, despite relatively strong performance from global networks during the first weeks of Covid-19 lockdowns.
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The UK’s major mobile networks have been experiencing outages this morning as millions of people have been forced to work from home due to the Coronavirus.
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Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania are reportedly in the midst of a major internet outage caused by cuts to the FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network (FALCON) in Yemen.
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Google experienced a network outage lasting for more than four hours on June 2, affecting access to services such as YouTube, G Suite and Google Compute Engine in the US and casting doubt on the reliability of its cloud service resiliency.
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China Telecom’s backbone has experienced a “significant, globally distributed outage”, according to network monitoring company ThousandEyes.
