Impact of Verizon's September 30 outage on Internet traffic

This post details how Cloudflare's global network visibility and analytics capabilities were used to observe and report on the impact of a major Verizon mobile network outage. By analyzing HTTP request volume from Verizon's autonomous system (AS6167) and specific impacted cities, Cloudflare provided real-time insights into the decline and subsequent restoration of internet traffic, highlighting the network's ability to monitor and understand large-scale service disruptions.