Revolutionize City Responses To Internet Outages
A Game-Changing Tool for Effective Management In today’s digital age, internet outages can cause significant disruptions to daily life, affecting everything from personal communication to critical emergency services. The recent Optus Internet outage left millions of Australians and an estimated 400 thousand businesses without phone or Internet communications had not only huge financial costs but...
Understanding causes, and dynamics of Internet disruptions
The hypothetical situation involves a significant Internet outage, in southern California, that affected numerous customers, businesses, and government entities. In the aftermath, there is a need for a swift and accurate understanding of the incident, especially since ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are often engaged in a blame game, and slow to respond. Take the recent Optus Internet outage...
The case for cities monitoring all ISPs
In today's digital age, cities, municipalities, and organizations face significant challenges due to frequent and large-scale internet outages.However, many outages go unreported because they are smaller and while still disruptive, not as quickly noticed. From smaller outages such as in El Paso, to large-scale outages such as the recent Optus event that left millions without Internet and over...
Accountability for Internet Delivery and Disruptions
Internet delivery accountability becomes critical as more traditional infrastructure gets moved to the Internet. Consumers and businesses find themselves not only dependent on their ISP but can also experience risk and losses if the provider is not highly reliable. Remote employees can get into trouble if they miss critical deadlines or suffer too much Internet downtime. VoIP phones, media...
Internet Outages Independently Observed
Why could real-time, independently observed Internet monitoring greatly improve an organization's ability to detect problems across any number of ISPs? First, let's touch on something that most of us can understand as consumers. Almost everyone has experienced contacting their Internet provider and asking for help. Perhaps you were experiencing disconnections and sluggish speeds but the provider...
Internet IP / ISP Monitoring For Cities & Governments
Reliable Internet Is Vital For Cities & Governments Access to stable and reliable Internet services is crucial. We depend on our connectivity at work and home. When wide-scale outages happen, local governments, businesses, and consumers are negatively impacted, but it can be hard to pinpoint the total value of lost time and productivity during these disruptions. Unless something obvious...
Encrypted Remote Access Without Opening Ports
What can't be seen, can't be hacked. Port forwarding exposes the network Opening firewall ports for remote access to network resources or to allow a vendor into your own network has the disadvantage of catching the attention of hackers who are scanning for open ports continuously. For this reason, ISP Tracker offers an encrypted, secure method of gaining or providing access to remote networks...
ISP / Network Monitoring Tools – Overview Map
The ISP Tracker Internet/network monitoring tools include an overview map for enterprise users. It shows all locations and ISPs being monitored with the choice of what to be alerted for. Filter to view all locations or show only those which have not communicated for at least around 30 seconds or have been offline for 30 minutes. Combinations of the above and others can be selected and monitored....