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It was with much anticipation and excitement that Research in Motion, arguably pioneers of practical smartphone technology, revealed their new iPad-tackling PlayBook tablet device at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Continue reading…
So after returning from a slight blog writing hiatus (for a variety of reasons), I find myself logged into Facebook late one Sunday afternoon when a former work colleague that I haven’t seen for a while pops up on the integrated IM system. Continue reading…
Last weekend – a bank holiday weekend in the UK – saw a rather significant BGP-related disruption on the Internet. Fortunately it didn’t affect the mainstream router vendors, but caused service interruptions for anyone dependent on certain versions of the Quagga routing protocol suite (an open-source collection of routing protocol implementations with a configuration management interface that closely resembles mainstream Cisco routers). Continue reading…
I’ve spent considerable time this week working on a problem caused by accidental and unintentional BGP AS Path prepending. For those not in the know, AS Path prepending is the so-called practice of artificially extending the BGP AS Path attribute associated with one’s Internet routes in order to influence the preference in route selection on foreign networks. Continue reading…
I was afforded today a brief overview of Packet Design’s software products in the areas of capacity planning and traffic engineering on IP networks. Continue reading…
One of the most exciting things about working in a large telecommunications company such as Interoute is the unifying effect of people all around the company when faced with a crisis. Such crises are thankfully rare in occurrence, but in the early morning of Friday December 19 Continue reading…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been spending time evaluating Cariden Mate – a software tool designed to assist the task of capacity planning and traffic engineering on large scale IP networks. As a result I can provide a brief review of its capabilities. Continue reading…
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