Podcasts Technology Cisco Podcast Network Ep. 20 An IXP And A Streaming Music Provider Walk Into An Outage Bar (Week of Aug. 17-23)

Ep. 20 An IXP And A Streaming Music Provider Walk Into An Outage Bar (Week of Aug. 17-23)

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 6:40 p.m.

On this week\u2019s episode, Archana and I cover some recent outages that made headlines. This includes the Spotify outage, caused by an expired TLS certificate, that prevented users from accessing its platform. We also cover off on a widespread outage at Cogent during (what seems to be) a maintenance window. Then, we go \u201cunder the hood\u201d on the prolonged outage at an IXP on August 18th to understand exactly what infrastructure was impacted and which downstream providers were subsequently impacted. We\u2019re also joined by our guest, Prabhnit Singh, who currently leads ThousandEyes\u2019 Internet & WAN product line, to discuss why we\u2019re seeing an increased number of outages caused by expired TLS certificates and to cover some examples of past high-profile outages.