The Tubes Are Clogged

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:52 AM EST

Article Source: TechCrunch

technology, internet, united-states, cnn, amazon, espn, level-3-communications

If you've been having trouble accessing some of the web's most popular sites this morning, you aren't alone - reports have been pouring in that major sites like Amazon, CNN, and ESPN have been having sporadic outages in some areas across the United States. The problem seems to be stemming from an issue with Level 3 Communications, which operates one of the largest internet backbones in the world.

According to InternetPulse, the provider has been showing severe latency times, and a number of other sites have confirmed that Level3 is the source of the issue.

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Division by Zero

I wondered what was going on but figured it was just high traffic. I noticed that streaming video seemed a little glitchy but thought maybe a lot of people were just trying to watch the same show.

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#1 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:50 AM EST

{"commentId":4588789,"authorDomain":"inghar2004"}

gladbutterfly

I read awhile back that these sorts of problems are going to become the norm unless there's a massive investment in more 'tubes' (that's about how much I know about it too).

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#1.1 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:22 PM EST

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How do you find this stuff, Red Wolf? You're amazing!

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#2 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:42 PM EST

{"commentId":4590923,"authorDomain":"redwolf"}

Red Wolf

I have many RSS feeds.

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1 vote

#2.1 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:39 PM EST

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