ISP News for the week ending April29th, 2022
Cloudflare blocks a 15rps DDOs Attack.https://blog.cloudflare.com/15m-rps-ddos-attack/ Good news regarding the chip shortage. “America’s ambitions to rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing industry took a step forward on Monday with the opening of a specialty chip fabrication plant in central New York.”https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-opens-first-major-silicon-carbide-chip-plant-in-New-York The …
Podcast: Equinix, T-Mobile, IRS
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Equinix publishes their global interconnection Index report.https://www.equinix.com/gxi-report/ T-Mobile expands residential LTE broadbandinteresting to note there are “no data caps” however, During congestion, Home Internet customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization. https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-expands-home-internet-to-more-than-450-cities-towns-left-high-and-dry-by-att Geek out on 100 …
The BrothersWisp Podcast
Finally had some time to contribute to another podcast I am a part of. http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/the-brothers-wisp-115-wisp-after-death-unifi-video-eol-rpki-basics/ This week we talk about:WISP Virtual Summit July 28thSave Dave’s brainRIP Ubiquiti Unifi Video – EOL 1/1/2021zwift.comCloudflare DNS outageDavid – Arduino, PHP programming, cycling and …
Podcast: Dead technologies for service providers
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I put together a quick 5-minute podcast talking about two dead technologies for service providers. What is on your list of things no longer relevant or used? #j2podcast #packetsdownrange #routethelight
Briefing June 26th 2020 – API,5g,interconnection
https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-massive-spying-on-users-of-googles-chrome-shows-new-security-weakness-2020-6A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, …
Podcast: Atheral, VOIP and communication “stuff”
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Recently I sat down and did a podcast with Daniel White of Atheral (https://atheral.co/). We talked about how WISPS can use VOIP to prevent overbuilding, Unified communications, and some of the forms and procedures for getting started with VOIP. If …
j2 Podcast: Network cabling, WISPER gets funding
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Comcast launches wifi6 routers https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200106005958/en/Comcast-Launches-Powerful-Internet-Device-Capable-Multi-Gigabit Want some good geek reading? Cable Labeling Best Practices byu/zanacks innetworking Funding The folks over at WISPER have some good news coming their way https://www.telecompetitor.com/fcc-ready-to-authorize-caf-ii-rural-broadband-funding-for-hughes-wisper-isp-three-others/ USDA to Make 550 Million available in 2020 https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/12/12/usda-make-550-million-funding-available-2020-deploy-high-speed …
J2 Podcast: telephone robocalls, Comcast network
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The j2 podcast for ISPs. News and tips you need to know if you are a network operator
Podcast:5.9GHZ, Azure overloaded,collaboration
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Microsoft is concerned about its cloud capacity. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/our-commitment-to-customers-and-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/ FCC Opens up 5.9GHZ to rural providers The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), helped the companies apply for the STAs. WISPA told the FCC the companies rely primarily on unlicensed spectrum …
Quick home VPN using Mikrotik and an existing router
I had a situation today where we had an office worker needing to work from home. This user had a Housefull of devices and a router managed by the FIOS provider
Podcast: John, Ivan and I talk WISP finances
I sit down with John Scrivner from LiveOak Bank and Ivan Crowe from Ritalia funding and discuss topics related to WISP funding. We talk about leasing, lending and the pitfalls WISPs run into when it comes to financing. John Scrivner …