That creepy collapse of the Internet in homes and businesses across Southern Ontario Monday is being blamed by CNN on a “configuration issue from Level 3, a telecommunications and internet service provider owned by CenturyLink.” That sounds like a mistake of sort but CenturyLink says it isn’t going to explain it further. The interconnectedness of our little world was never more apparent shortly after noon when unknown numbers of Internet connections across the US and Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa just shut down. CNN says Level 3’s infrastructure delivers content for other internet services. What we know is that both Bell and Rogers customers were effectively shut down by the configuration issue. In the US, Internet service providers like Spectrum, Verizon, and AT&T showed a spike in connectivity issues, too, though they were not as widespread.
