Re: Arelion/Telia AS1299 issues?

[Brandon Jackson <bjackson () napshome net>]

I'm experiencing this in the southeast US region.

Unfortunately, return traffic from a data center that we have a VPN
connection to. Is routed first over Level 3 who is then handing it off to
Arelion in Miami where we then see the 200 to 300 millisecond latency and
50% plus packet loss.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 11:22 Elmar K. Bins <elmi () 4ever de> wrote:

> We also observed this today, UTC morning, esp. across the pond, and our
> alternative paths from Europe to the US were suffering from the still
> unfixed
> fibre cut, so I was a bit unhappy with 200 extra ms, and 60% loss.
>
> 1299 seems to've found an alternative path in the meantime, looks good to
> us.
>
> Elmar.
>
>
> nanog () nanog org (Andrian Visnevschi via NANOG) wrote:
>
> > We had the same issue with Arelion this morning, a huge increase in the
> > latency and jitter was happening across the US and of course for any
> > traffic sourced from the EU flowing to the US.
> > Within the US we noticed a latency spike from 20-50ms to ~200ms. From the
> > EU to our US facilities, we noticed a spike from  ~130ms to ~400ms.
> >
> >
> > We ended up shifting traffic from Arelion to a different carrier, and
> will
> > stay there until we are confident that they fixed any issue that they had
> > in their network. To be honest, we've been experiencing quite similar
> > issues with unstable latency on Arelion over the past couple of months,
> and
> > it's becoming quite frustrating
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Andrian Visnevschi*
> >
> > VP of Network & Security
> >
> > +373 68374133
> >
> > andrian () acreto io | https://acreto.io
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 6:03 PM David Hubbard <
> dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all, anyone aware of issues with Arelion this morning?  We have a
> > > bunch of end users on at least Cox and Cogeco who are having serious
> issues
> > > with service access, and the problem appears to be on the return path
> where
> > > it traverses Arelion.  Source net is Lumen/L3 3356 but loss/latency
> doesn’t
> > > appear to creep up until already within Arelion’s network.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Imperva mentioned outage/degradation due to a national ISP issue too,
> so I
> > > suspect it’s affecting more than just certain peerings.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David