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IXP Bake Off Results
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Here are some slides that present some research undertaken by a number of European Internet Exchange points (IXPs), which I presented at UKNOF15 last week. They may be of interest to networks which connect to IXPs who have been considering connecting to the local multi-lateral peering (MLP) service, but are unsure whether testing has proved [...]
IPv6 Track at NANOG
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Greetings from Philadelphia! I am presenting as part of the IPv6 at NANOG46 (click here for info of how to watch) at 9:30PM UK time today, or download the IPv6 for Enterprises presentation here, or see information about the other speakers here..
The messages are clear and simple. Working now to get ready for the IPv6 [...]
The internet is still broken, guys…
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I complained on December 10th 2008 that The Internet was broken for 4-byte ASN speakers. Rob Shakir, Jonathan Oddy, and I have been researching in detail the mechanism by which a faulty announcement by an end-site network in the Ukraine was able to break BGP (the protocol that glues different networks on the internet together, [...]
Openness and telecoms
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This is a response to Lee Dryburgh’s article on Skype. We had a debate on Twitter, but I have not yet mastered the art of debate in 140 characters!
Lee’s premise is that “Certainly Skype is not a walled garden. All things being relative, it’s certainly not overly closed either.” Lee claims that the accusations of [...]
Internet broken for ASN32 speakers today.
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Not trying to point fingers or name-and-shame, just to raise the profile of a nasty little bug handling breaches of RFC4893. This post is basically shaped from a message I posted to nanog earlier.
AS196629 (3.21 in asdot) announce 91.207.218.0/23. Experienced eyes will notice that this is quite a large as number. It’s a ‘new’ 4-byte [...]
2011 – An addressing odyssey. Preparing enterprise for IPv6.
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Yesterday I gave a talk to Sheffield GeekUp on preparing enterprises for IPv6 [download]. The premise of the talk was :
IPv4 addresses are scarse, and at current consumption rates, the IANA pool of free v4 addresses will be gone at the start of 2011.
This starts a “Post IPv4 world” where the IPv4 internet continues to [...]
VoIP For Network Operators Tutorial
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These are the slides that I presented at NANOG44 in Los Angeles on Sunday, “VoIP For Network Operators“.
This talk was for network operators looking to build voice segments of their network, and the slides cover
Voice Basics for SPs
Why Operators should care
Voice Peering
Metrics
VoIP Security
Youtube pushed off the air
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In between browsing Facebook and Youtube, the UK economy generates $1,930,000,000 of output a year. Thats $550,000 every two and a half hours. Well if today had been a work day, there’d have been one two and a half hour period where that was much higher. That’s because in a pique of [...]
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