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What is QoS? Quality of Service (QoS) is a set of techniques and mechanisms that ISPs use to manage and prioritize network traffic. It allows ISPs to allocate network resources in a way that ensures certain types of data or applications receive preferential treatment over others. QoS is essential for delivering a consistently high-quality internet … Read more
Glenn Kelley has a great article on spinning up your own DNS resolvers. This is a critical piece of infrastructure if you are in internet Service Provider (ISP). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-dns-server-your-network-uses-root-hints-glenn-kelley As Glenn writes. Here’s why ISPs should consider running their own: This is especially important in high-latency networks such as in the 3rd world or some … Read more
I have noticed a trend regarding customers and latency in the Internet Service Provider (ISP) world. Those in the industry know all about customers and speed tests. Love or hate them, the speed test is a way of life for the ISP. I wrote an article a while back on the Problems with Speed Tests. … Read more
Over the past few years, I have been trying to train myself out of First Responder mode and into the ability to take a step back and evaluate the situation when it comes to network outages. Being in the ISP field for so long, you get into a mentality of just fixing the problem. This … Read more
Why not start out the new year with some changes? Here is my list of things I see which could help. You can easily do the following twelve things in the next twelve months.
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes or less, with attackers repeatedly inundating the same companies with floods of data — including one … Read more
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This content is for Patreon subscribers of the j2 blog. Please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber for as little as $1 a month. This helps to provide higher quality content, more podcasts, and other goodies on this blog.To view this content, you must be a member of Justin’s Patreon Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon … Read more
This content is for Patreon subscribers of the j2 blog. Please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber for as little as $1 a month. This helps to provide higher quality content, more podcasts, and other goodies on this blog.To view this content, you must be a member of Justin’s Patreon Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon … Read more
What is VXLAN and how would service providers and WISPs use it in their networks?
NAV (Network Administration Visualized) is a free software program to monitor networks
