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Africa Cloud Services
Routed Hosting's AS328032 Shows Where Cloud Traffic Interconnects, Not Whether Workloads Will Recover
Routed Hosting's AS328032 Shows Where Cloud Traffic Interconnects, Not Whether Workloads Will Recover 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
KDDI's 2022 VoLTE outage: when recovery control became the accountability test
A routing error during overnight maintenance lasted only long enough to start the incident. The nationwide service crisis that followed was sustained by something harder to unwind: repeated location-registration requests, congested VoLTE call-control nodes, overloaded subscriber…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
What AS269786 Reveals About AIREDATA's Network—and What It Cannot Prove
What AS269786 Reveals About AIREDATA's Network—and What It Cannot Prove 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.…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Spark New Zealand's 3G Shutdown: Why Device Compatibility Became a Telecom Continuity Gate
Spark says its 3G network shut down on 31 March 2026. The practical consequence is not that every device automatically moved to a newer network, but that compatibility became a condition of continued use. Bands, voice support, antennas, modules, SIMs and testing now sit between a…
North America National Telecom
CenturyLink's 2018 outage showed how an unused management channel became a national failure path
Four malformed packets should not be able to disable a national communications network. Yet in December 2018, four packets generated at one CenturyLink node entered a management channel that the operator knew about but did not use, spread through connected equipment, and helped…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
What AS10269 Can Prove About Belize Telemedia—and What It Cannot
What AS10269 Can Prove About Belize Telemedia—and What It Cannot 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
T-Mobile's 2020 outage showed how one fiber failure became a national routing cascade
For more than twelve hours on 15 June 2020, a communications failure that began with one leased fiber link spread far beyond the place where the cable problem occurred. Calls failed, text messaging was disrupted, and thousands of attempts to reach 911 did not arrive at public…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Chorus and New Zealand's Copper Exit: What Fibre Safeguards Reveal About Telecom Continuity
The important question in a copper-to-fibre transition is not whether fibre is newer. It is whether a working replacement is available to the person who is about to lose an existing service. New Zealand's safeguards make that distinction operational: copper withdrawal depends on…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Hong Kong Bridge Info-Tech's Two ASNs Show Why Registration and Route Visibility Are Different
Hong Kong Bridge Info-Tech's Two ASNs Show Why Registration and Route Visibility Are Different intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
BT's 2023 999 outage showed why an unexercised failover is not emergency continuity
For people trying to reach the UK's emergency services on 25 June 2023, the distinction between a primary platform and its backup was meaningless. What mattered was whether a call connected. BT's emergency-call service was disrupted for approximately 10.5 hours, including a total…
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…
Academics
Olivier Bonaventure: From MPTCP Research to Practical Deployment
Olivier Bonaventure neither invented Multipath TCP alone nor wrote every implementation, nor does he control the companies or network operators that deploy the protocol. His significance lies in building an institutional chain that links research, standards, software, adoption…
Academics
Olivier Bonaventure and the long road to making one connection survive across multiple networks
Olivier Bonaventure was not the sole inventor of Multipath TCP, did not write all its implementations, and does not control the companies and operators that use it. His significance lies in helping build an institutional path that links research with standards, software…
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 Institutional
Prosimo's Multicloud Control Layer Integrated into Palo Alto Networks
Prosimo raised at least US$55 million to coordinate application, network, and security policies across multiple clouds. By early 2025, public records indicated the company was no longer operating independently; a cofounder later stated that the technology had been integrated into…
Global Institutional
Prosimo’s Multi-Cloud Control Layer Integrated into Palo Alto Networks
Prosimo raised at least $55 million to orchestrate application, network, and security policies across multiple clouds. By early 2025, public information no longer showed it operating independently, and a co-founder later stated that its technology had been integrated into Palo…