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September 28, 2018

RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag ARM, bandwidth, BBC, Belgium, Cable, China, development, Fiber, George Smith, hong kong, IBM, itt, Mobile, recognition, research, rip, shared, Sir Charles Kao, standard, stc, stl, subsea, switzerland, UK, usa, Willard Boyle

This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…

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…

Sputtered tape capacity boosts from IBM and Sony

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag Asia, capacity, Cloud, development, disaster recovery, history, HTTP, IBM, japan, record, research, sony, storage, switzerland, technology, video

The most cost and energy-efficient way of storing data is still tape. Offline data storage is still a major requirement for many organisations. For the fifth time since 2006, IBM…

February 17, 2017

LoRa World Record Attempt – can he beat TI in Cape Town?

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag Africa, Europe, france, iot, LoRA, range, record, south africa, switzerland, ti, video, Wi-Fi, YouTube

I occasionally watch the guy with the Swiss accent on YouTube. Andreas Spiess has been doing a bit of work recently on the range of various radio communications standards. These…