Packets Down Range #38: Tech topics, SpaceX, monitoring AS-Sets

Post author j2sw
Post date October 7, 2025

Hello fellow tech warriors, tinkerers, and trailblazers — welcome back to Packers Down Range, your go-to dispatch from the edge of the digital frontier. Whether you’re knee-deep in fiber splicing, tracking BGP flaps, or just catching up between tower climbs, this issue is packed with insight, tools, and a bit of opinionated wisdom to help keep your networks running and your coffee strong.

This issue, we’re pretty tech topic heavy. You wanna do stuff right? Well here ius a bunch of stuff to do,

So grab your multi-tool, fire up your terminal, and let’s head down range.

Interconnection & Data Center News
•Cloudflare and Monitoring AS-SETs

•CyrusOne starts construction on new Data Center in New Albany, Ohio.

ISP News
•SpaceX submits filing to FCC. SpaceX has submitted a filing to the FCC, proposing the addition of 15,000 V3 satellites to the Starlink constellation. It is anticipated that each Starlink V3 launch aboard Starship will contribute 60 Tbps of capacity to the Starlink network, which is more than twenty times the capacity added by each V2 Mini launch on Falcon 9.

•Create Fiber Splice Diagrams quickly

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Tech Topics

• Behind the Streams: Three years at Netflix

•The Gigabit App Challenge. The Gig City

• Wireshark Certified Analyst

•LibreQoS training October 18

•Network Monitoring with Raspberry pi