Virgin Media is testing in Cambridgeshire, UK, an 8Gb/s cable service to a small subset of subscribers. (Currently, the trial supports eight households, but can extend to 50 over time).…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
Bringing superfast broadband early to Axford – dig your own trench
Sometimes you can wait a long time for broadband to be delivered. Firstly you need an enabled exchange. Then the connections in the ground or on poles to provide your…
IPDetails – a useful multi-tool to gather details about an IP address
What I initially needed IPDetails to offer A couple of months ago I needed a tool that allowed me to gather more information on IP addresses that I'd collected using…
Microsoft offers VMware in baremetal Azure
Microsoft's Azure blog has posted an announcement (Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure) about how they are managing VMware elements with Azure tools, as well as a full VMware…
New secure Quad9 DNS service supports IPv6
Quad9 is a new DNS service that prevents against malware. Previously I would have recommended OpenDNS to provide this service. But OpenDNS doesn't support IPv6 with the malware protection. It…
Broadcom completes drawn-out acquisition of Brocade
Broadcom has finally achieved completion on its acquisition of Brocade. Announced in November 2016, this deal has finally completed. Brocade disposed of various units, such as the vRouter team to…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…