Optical power balancing in DWDM
Guest Post: How to calculate theoretical optical power estimates at various ingress/egress points of a DWDM system before field validation.
IXP from scratch: Part 1 — Building a new IXP
Guest Post: How to build an IPv6-only IXP from grassroots including technical design decisions.
Making Segment Routing user-friendly
Guest Post: MPLS has become unnecessarily complex. Here’s how to make it simpler.
How to boost geolocation accuracy with Geofeed
A friendly how to guide for network operators.
Encouraging ICP-2 discussions in Japan
There was a lively discussion at the recent Japan IGF and JPOPM 47 on the proposed update to the ICP-2 principles. Feedback is due by Friday, 6 December 2024.
When NTP interactions go wrong
Guest Post: A walkthrough of an issue involving NTP interactions that resulted in severely incorrect dates.
New IPv6 address block
APNIC extends its IPv6 resources with a second /12 allocation from IANA.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Using Moore’s Law, a computer 20 years into the future is predicted to be around 10,000 times more capable than today’s computation capabilities. Geoff Huston explores some practical implications.
Event Wrap: Peering Asia 6.0
APNIC supported and participated in Peering Asia 6.0, held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 6 to 7 November 2024.
[Podcast] Measuring DNSSEC keying ‘drift’ between parent and child
An analysis of CDS and CDNSKEY records looking at mismatches between child and parent, and the nameservers for the zone.