This weekly feature from S&P Global Market Intelligence, in collaboration with internet-service monitoring company ThousandEyes, aims to give remote workers insights into internet service disruptions. 2022 opened with the number of global internet disruptions down 2% to 227 in the week of Jan. 1, continuing a downward trend that started in mid-December 2021, according to data from ThousandEyes, a network-monitoring service owned by Cisco Systems Inc. Meanwhile, U.S. disruptions increased 9% to 72 from 66 in the prior week, with the recent total comprising 32% of all global outages. ThousandEyes detected two notable interruptions last week. A Jan. 3 outage at Oracle Corp. affected customers and downstream partners using Oracle Cloud services in the U.S. The disruption apparently centered on nodes in Austin, Texas.