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November 10, 2017

Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag bbr, Belgium, BGP, Brazil, change, DNS, dropbox, environment, estonia, germany, Google, greece, india, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, ireland, load-balancer, luxembourg, MPLS, performance, pop, proxy, router, routing, servers, switzerland, TCP, TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS), updated

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…

July 7, 2017

Adding client hosts to a FreeIPA Server for Identity Management

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag CentOS, change, DNS, environment, FreeIPA, How To?, identity, LDAP, Linux, pop, servers, standard, upgrade, yum

Our look at the FreeIPA server as an Identity management server continues with this installment. We look today at adding other systems to the FreeIPA platform to take advantage of…

February 6, 2017

SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?

By John Dixon in Featured Tag bandwidth, capacity, change, history, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, local internet breakout, LTE, monitoring, MPLS, pop, research, resilience, routing, SD-WAN, security, shared, sharing, standard, switch, technology, video, virtualisation, voip, VPN, WAN, What Is?

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…