Lesson from a network outage: Networks need automated reasoning
In the afternoon of October 23, within a few minutes of each other, two friends sent me a link to the recently-released “June 15, 2020 T-Mobile Network Outage Report” by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHB) of the FCC. Given what Intentionet does, the report sounded interesting and I started reading it immediately….
Read MoreDon’t accidentally break the Internet like Level 3 (or Google, Telia, Telekom Malaysia, …)
How to safely make network configuration changes On Monday, Nov 6th, 2017, Level 3 Communications (now part of CenturyLink) made national headlines when a configuration error resulted in a massive outage for many users in the USA. The impacted users were customers of several large ISPs, including Comcast. It took 90 minutes for Level 3…
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