BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages

The crashes on old routers, in turn, created significant packet loss and traffic outages across the Internet, even in some large provider networks. The looming breach of the global BGP routing table threshold wasn’t a secret, yet enough providers were caught flat-footed due to outdated network equipment that it had a ripple effect in terms of the number of Internet outages it caused. ThousandEyes monitors apps, services, and networks, and will be watching for any Internet traffic outages that occur on 768k Day and will report on anything of note.

Source: blog.thousandeyes.com