As part of our measurement platform, we run 100s of millions of traceroutes per day - normally 1.5 million traverse AS3356 per hour.
At the nadir of the #centurylinkoutage, we were only seeing 474k successful traceroutes via AS3356 - a drop of 68%!
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Because of the massive scale of these networks, these charts rarely exhibit any movement.
The disturbance caused by the outage and subsequent de-peering is visible on the charts of other "Tier-1" telecoms in the DFZ.
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To get a feel for how traffic changed globally during the outage, we can use this tool to look out incoming traceroutes to various content providers like these:
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Because of the importance of AS3356 to the global internet, major cloud providers experienced impacts to varying degrees.
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Access networks both foreign and domestic (US) can be seen impacted by the degradation and loss of AS3356, arguably the most important transit in the world.
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