Widest Internet Outage – Causes by Hurricane Ike
Ike causes widest US Internet outage since 2003
The power blackouts that followed Hurricane Ike have caused the widest outage for U.S. Internet service since 2003. Internet connections in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit, according to Renesys Corp., but the storm also caused outages in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois & Indiana.
It was the largest area to lose its connections to the Internet since the Northeast blackout of 2003,
said data engineer Martin Brown at Renesys.
The Manchester, N.H.-based company don’t track Internet connectivity by the number of people using it, but by “autonomous networks,” which roughly equates to the “neighborhoods” of the global network. Each may represent a university and/or a small Internet service provider, or part of a larger carrier’s network. (Time Warner Cable Inc.’s network in Ohio , NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, etc) At the peak Monday, Hurricane Ike had taken out more than 400 such networks for at least an hour each. Some of the outages persisted Wednesday, with being affected, according to Renesys.
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Comcast claims these outages are down to ‘10%’ with ‘nodes’ scattered all around the houston/texas area still being down. Customer service information in regards to these outages ad etas is sketchy at best. Where-as by comparison, Centerpoint energy is down to 2% or customer w/o power.