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Global Cloud Services
DE-CIX Barcelona: How a Multi-Site Internet Exchange Supports Route Continuity
For a business that depends on online services, “route continuity” is the ability to keep useful network paths available when a component, connection, or policy stops working as expected. It is tempting to treat a multi-site exchange as a finished resilience product. That…
North America National Telecom
Lumen's 2022 Dakota 911 outages showed why backup paths need a real dependency map
Emergency calls failed to reach 11 local 911 centres in western North Dakota because routes described as backups still converged on infrastructure the live call path could not bypass. Five days earlier, a different Lumen outage in South Dakota had already shown another form of…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Telefonia Bonairiano's AS27745 Identifies an Island Network, Not Every Route Off Bonaire
Telefonia Bonairiano's AS27745 Identifies an Island Network, Not Every Route Off Bonaire intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Ufinet Paraguay's AS264853 Is a Network Identity, Not a Fibre Map
Ufinet Paraguay's AS264853 Is a Network Identity, Not a Fibre Map intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
North America National Telecom
Verizon's repeated 2022 911 outages showed the gap between a corrective action and a tested safeguard
A known bad update file returned to Verizon Wireless's live network after an earlier outage. The Federal Communications Commission says the December recurrence then prevented hundreds of 911 calls from completing. For a person trying to reach emergency help, the practical…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
KDDI Asia Pacific and AS56197: What a Company Rename Still Proves About a Singapore Network Identity
KDDI Asia Pacific and AS56197: What a Company Rename Still Proves About a Singapore Network Identity intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Global Cloud Services
NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and AS4713: What a Network Identity Still Proves After a Company Rename
NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and AS4713: What a Network Identity Still Proves After a Company Rename intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra's 18,388 prepaid activations showed why a working identity check can still fall outside the authorised process
Telstra did check identity when it activated the prepaid mobile services examined by Australia's communications regulator. That fact is central to the case, because the Australian Communications and Media Authority, or ACMA, still formed the view that 18,388 activations did not…
Global Cloud Services
Cogent South Africa, AS174 and the Evidence Gap Between a Subsidiary and a Global Network
Cogent South Africa, AS174 and the Evidence Gap Between a Subsidiary and a Global Network intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Global Cloud Services
Zayo Group, LLC and AS6461: What Can a Fiber Backbone Prove About Route Continuity?
Zayo Group, LLC and AS6461: What Can a Fiber Backbone Prove About Route Continuity? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Lycamobile's 2024 porting failures showed why providers must prove every identity check actually ran
A mobile number is easy to mistake for a line in an account record. In practice, it is a route through which calls, messages and security codes reach a person. When that number is moved to a new provider, operational control moves too. Australia's communications regulator found…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Southern Phone's 2024–2025 porting failures showed why number-transfer controls need continuous testing
A mobile number can look like a simple contact detail, but in everyday life it often works as a key. Banks send one-time codes to it. Friends, employers and service providers use it to identify the person they expect to reach. Moving that number to a new carrier therefore changes…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Telecentro's AS27747 Identifies a Network, Not Its Resilience
Telecentro's AS27747 Identifies a Network, Not Its Resilience intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Latin…
Global Cloud Services
ELSOUL LABO B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: What Can AS200261 Prove About a Low-Latency Service?
ELSOUL LABO B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: What Can AS200261 Prove About a Low-Latency Service? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus's 2021–2023 IPND failures showed why outsourcing a data feed does not outsource accountability
A carrier can hire another company to prepare and send a regulatory data feed. It cannot hire away responsibility for the result. Australia's communications regulator found that required public-number customer information for Optus services was not supplied to the Integrated…
Global Cloud Services
OVH US LLC in the RIPE Ledger: What Must an Exit-Ready BYOIP Plan Prove?
Keeping the same public IP addresses during a cloud move can spare a business from changing allowlists, customer integrations and the reputation attached to those addresses. It can also create a dangerous illusion: if the addresses still look familiar, the move must be under…
Global Cloud Services
IONOS SE in the RIPE Ledger: Can Reverse DNS Survive an IP Address Handover?
Moving a service to a new public IP address can look like a small infrastructure task. The server may be healthy and the forward domain may already point to it, yet mail, monitoring, allowlists and incident work can still fail if the address-to-name side of DNS was forgotten. The…
Global Cloud Services
Liquid Web B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: Can an Abuse Report Reach the Right Operator?
Liquid Web B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: Can an Abuse Report Reach the Right Operator? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
Global Cloud Services
Hostinger Operations UAB as Registrar: Can a Business Recover Its Domain When the Administrator Disappears?
Hostinger Operations UAB appears in both the RIPE NCC member directory and ICANN's accredited-registrar directory. Those records identify a company and a formal role. They do not answer the question that matters on a difficult Monday morning: can the business still control…
Global Cloud Services
SiteGround Spain, RIPE Membership and Centralized DNS: Who Controls Website Continuity?
SiteGround Spain SL appears in a public RIPE NCC membership record, while SiteGround documents centralized DNS, hosting, backups and account controls. For a small organization, those records and tools are useful only when it knows who controls the domain, which DNS zone is…