Uber, the taxi company with no vehicles, has provided an interesting insight into their network infrastructure. Being a global company, they need to be accessible by those locations that are…
SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?
Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…
BEREC produces Guidelines on Implementation of EU Net Neutrality Rules
BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) has produced a guideline document on the implementation of the recently enacted EU Net Neutrality rules. Adoption of the Regulation (EU) 2015/2120…
RFC7511: Scenic Routing for IPv6
An RFC has been published today to cover alternatives to IPv6 routing options. In times of Green IT, a lot of effort is put into reducing the energy consumption of…
LinkedIn now available on IPv6
A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they've permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…
Goodbye IPv4 Address Space?
So today marked an auspicious occasion in which the last 5 /8 IP addresses were handed to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This marks the last of the…