Date: 05/06/25
Market: Vendor Equipment Trouble
Source: Upstream ISP
Trouble Ticket: 1468732
Date and Time Outage:
Description of Outage
On 05/06 at approximately 6:00 AM Sinch support started to receive reports from some customers indicating IP phones had become unregistered or were no longer able to place calls. Operations engaged engineering and began isolating network elements to expose the issue. Sinch engineers discovered where the problem was. Phones restored registration on 05/06 at 10:30 AM CT.
Reason for Outage
On 05/06 at 04:01 AM CT some customers IP phones lost registration. Through the troubleshooting process, Sinch discovered that an up stream peering partner started blocking SIP TCP traffic at 04:01 AM, phones that use BLF (busy lamp field) use TCP and port 5077 – however packets were unable to reach the Sinch network until the upstream peering partner was removed from Sinch advertisements. Sinch engineers applied the configuration change on 05/06 at 10:30 AM CT, the impacted devices began to restore shortly after with customer confirmation and internal observations.
Recommendations for preventing a reoccurrence
Sinch will continue to monitor the network and work closely with vendors to ensure impacts are kept at a minimum.