Loko: Predictable latency in small networks
Guest Post: Good, fast, cheap — pick two. This has been a fundamental rule of network operations since the beginning. Or so we thought.
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Resourcing 2019: by the numbers
2019 was a busy year with the implementation of four policy proposals with different degrees of challenges and complexity.
At the bottom of the sea: a short history of submarine cables
Submarine cable development brings together advanced physics, marine technology and engineering to create truly amazing pieces of networking infrastructure.
More than 90% of LTE users in China have been allocated IPv6 addresses
Guest Post: Since the release of the government’s IPv6 Action Plan in 2017, IPv6 deployment in China has made steady gains, especially among LTE networks.
ConQuest: fine-grained queue analysis
Guest Post: With ConQuest, operators and researchers can monitor the queuing buffer, pinpoint the particular bursty flows, and perform corrective actions.
Steering hyper-giants’ traffic at scale
Guest Post: New traffic engineering system, FlowDirector, reduces traffic overheads for large CDNs on long-haul links by 15%.
Why dynamic DNS mapping prevents DNSSEC deployment
Guest Post: Study looks at why DNSSEC deployment remains so slow (and hard) in CDNs.
Traffic analysis still possible when using DoT and DoH
Guest Post: Study seeks to measure the effectiveness of encrypting the DNS for the purpose of privacy.
Is RPKI ready for the big screen?
Guest Post: Results from the first comprehensive, longitudinal study of the deployment and quality of RPKI.
RSS++: a new model for elastic high-speed networking
Guest Post: New load-balancing technique shown to spread load across CPU cores in a more optimal way.