[outages] US West Coast Massive Tier 1 Backbone Issues

[Jay Ashworth]

Yeah, the CenturyLink ticket is running in another thread on the list, and the fiber cut comments hit the list about 4 minutes before your message.

The internet as a whole has had substantially less Reserve capacity, as the power generation people like to put it, for about the last month, and while I hear tell that excess capacity is being turned up to release some of the pressure, I'm not in a position to know how fast that's happening.

On April 21, 2020 12:44:48 PM EDT, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com> wrote:
>Try the 60,000 foot view; the midwest is having a bad day as well,
>though
>it sounds like a fiber cut is to blame.
>
>https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/g5gyms/midwest_internet_outage/
>
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:38 PM Jay Ashworth via Outages <
>outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
>> I was hoping somebody was going to climb up to 30,000 feet on this,
>> because it sort of felt to me like it was pervasive as well. I
>encourage
>> further analysis on this point, and apologize to anybody who would
>prefer
>> that it be on the discussion list - I think it actually belongs here.
>> </mod>
>>
>> On April 21, 2020 11:58:30 AM EDT, Cary Wiedemann via Outages <
>> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> There's a few threads on this already, but they all call out
>specific
>>> ISPs when this trouble isn't limited to any one last-mile provider. 
>Nearly
>>> all tier 1 transit providers are experiencing loss on the US West
>Coast
>>> today.  Some examples:
>>>
>>> Comcast/Level3 peering point in Seattle:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> Telia/AT&T in Seattle:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> Hurricane Electric/Cox in San Jose:
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> And this isn't the half of it.  Very few tier 1 transit providers
>are
>>> unaffected.
>>>
>>> So much for carrier redundancy!
>>>
>>> - Cary
>>>
>>>
>>>
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