2026 Network Outage Report: What ThousandEyes Data Reveals About Internet Health and Enterprise Resilience
Cisco ThousandEyes tracked between 199 and 386 global network outage events per week during Q1 2026, with a 62% spike during the last week of February that pushed the total to 386 incidents across ISPs, cloud providers, collaboration apps, and edge networks. The data exposes a network landscape that is simultaneously more capable and more fragile than most enterprises realize — and the defining outage pattern of 2026 is not broken components but systems interacting in ways nobody designed for. ...