/plushcap/analysis/cloudflare/q3-2023-internet-disruption-summary

Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary

What's this blog post about?

- Over 2,000 instances of Internet disruptions were recorded by Cloudflare Radar between July 1 and September 30, 2022. - These incidents ranged from brief regional outages to more extensive nationwide events that lasted for hours or even days. - Notable examples included planned maintenance on the ACE submarine cable impacting Guinea, emergency repairs on the SEA-US cable network affecting Palau, and an unspecified issue causing a temporary disruption to traffic from SpaceX Starlink. - While some events were reported by local Internet service providers (ISPs), others may have gone unnoticed without monitoring tools like Cloudflare Radar. - The new Outage Center feature on Cloudflare Radar allows users to subscribe for notifications about disruptions and other anomalies observed in their data, helping them stay informed about potential issues affecting the global Internet infrastructure.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Oct. 25, 2023

Author(s)
David Belson

Word count
3573

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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