IPV6 Planning and Implementation resources for the xISP
This post is designed to give you a lot of information on implementing IPV6 into your network. Much of this has been aimed at the service provider market.
How the Internet travels across oceans
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/technology/internet-cables-oceans.html The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world, traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor. The data zips from New York to Sydney, from Hong Kong …
AT&T 5G”e” Indianapolis
iPhone X while sitting in traffic on the west side of Indy. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macrumors.com/2019/04/22/sprint-att-5ge-lawsuit-settled/amp/
Self-hosted speed test
Our friend willie has a new video on a self-hosted speedtest server.
Are you ready for 768k day?
As the global routing table increases, routers use more and more memory to hold these tables in memory. Most routers use what is called TCAM memory to hold routing tables. TCAM memory is much faster than normal RAM, which makes …
What is WPA3?
With the introduction of WIFI6, we now have the new WPA standard in WPA3. In an earlier article, I talk about WIFI6, and it’s the introduction of WPA3. As we are used to with the previous versions of WPA, WPA3 …
3 Tier Model
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Where does TRILL and VXLAN fit in to your network strategy?
As networking trends yo-yo between layer-3 and layer-2 centric different protocols have emerged. Protocols such as Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL), Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) have emerged to address the need of scalability …
What is an LOA for a cross-connect?
LOA’s (Letters of Authority/Authorization) are a mystery to many. We help many of our customers with LOA’s on a semi-regular basis. If you are here you are probably wanting to find out what an LOA is and how to properly fill …