Insights From Outages at Starlink, Schwab & Internet Archive

Three recent outages at Starlink, Charles Schwab, and the Internet Archive highlight key reminders for NetOps teams around backup options, the role of intelligence, and understanding your end-to-end service delivery chain.

A subset of Starlink users were unable to establish a connection; some users of Schwab.com and its apps may have found themselves unable to transact or trade due to an authentication issue; and the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine were intermittently overwhelmed by unexpected traffic floods.

Tune in to learn more about what happened and why, or use the chapters below to jump to the sections that most interest you:


CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Starlink Outage
07:35 Charles Schwab Outage
10:20 DDoS Attack Impacts Internet Archive
13:33 Outage Trends: By the Numbers
16:12 Get in Touch 

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For more insights, check out The Internet Report blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-schwab-starlink-outages?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q4_internetreport_q4fy24ep4_podcast

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What is The Internet Report?

This is The Internet Report, a podcast uncovering what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why.

Tune in to hear ThousandEyes’ Internet experts dig into some of the most interesting outage events from the past couple weeks, discussing what went awry—was it the Internet, or an application issue?

Plus, learn about the latest trends in ISP outages, cloud network outages, collaboration network outages, and more.