Equinix Customers – New Access requirements coming in October
For anyone with equipment inside Equinix facilities you need to complete a security profile. This goes into place in October.
Internet Architecture
Interconnection, peering, Data centers. How the Internet works. IXPs, transit, and other topics. Routing and Control Planes such as BGP and OSPF protocols. RPKI and IP resources are also covered.
EMP Shielded Data Center preview – Lifeline Data Centers
From our friends over at Lifeline Data Centers We’re making incredible progress on our new, state of the art Data Center located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We’re looking forward to meeting local press, officials, and the business community so we’re putting on a free lunch where you can get a sneak peak into this historic … Read more
How does BGP select routes?
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Another BGP blunder.but not THAT one
Recently, there has been much talk about the Cloudflare BGP blunder and others. But did you know there was one involving the entire /12 of IPV6 space
Data Center Container Photo
This comes to us from https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solutions-containerized-datacenter.php Data center in a box.
Data Center raised flooring
Looking to add some raised flooring to your data center? http://dcstands.com/ If you want to read about the great data center debate of raised vs slab flooring. https://switchon.eaton.com/plug/article/192/the-great-debate-raised-floor-vs-slab-data-ce https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2011/03/02/raised-floor-versus-slab-floor-the-debate-rages-on/ https://www.upsite.com/blog/slab-vs-raised-floor-3-things-consider/
Unboxing Canada’s newest Supercomputer
27,000 Intel cores. 190 Terabytes of ram.
The problem with speedtests
Imagine this scenario. Outside your house, the most awesome superhighway has been built. It has a speed limit of 120 Mile Per Hour. You calculate at those speeds you can get to and from work 20 minutes earlier. Life is good. Monday morning comes, you hop in your 600 horsepower Nissan GT-R, put on some … Read more