TCPShield incident

North America backbone degradation

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

TCPShield experienced a minor incident on July 18, 2025 affecting Ashburn and Los Angeles, lasting 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 18, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 18, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC
Duration
15m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 18, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

Affected components

AshburnLos Angeles

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 18, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

    Since 21:00 UTC, we have observed several backbone degradation events in North America via GSL (our upstream), with Los Angeles and Ashburn being the primary impact sites

  2. identified Jul 18, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Jul 18, 2025, 11:27 PM UTC

    The impacted sites have had their traffic diverted via alternate T1 upstreams at this time

  4. resolved Jul 18, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC

    The issue has not re-surfaced since corrective changes to these regions.