The TouSIX project: SDN IXPs from design to production
Guest Post: The Umbrella SDN network design gives a stronger separation of control and data plane functionality, leading to enhanced scalability, reliability, and manageability.
IDNF: Bridging the gaps, creating rockstars
Guest Post: IDN Foundation tries to help teachers/lecturers in Indonesia gain real industry experience. Our goal is to develop the next generation of network engineers.
Overcoming traffic engineering challenges with SDN
Guest Post: The scalability and flexibility offered by software-defined networking can address numerous challenges associated with traffic engineering.
Event Wrap: PITA 21 AGM, Cook Islands
APNIC staff attended the 21st Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association’s AGM (PITA 21), held in the Cook Islands.
Are homogenic nameserver names a single point of failure?
Guest Post: Spreading domains used for nameservers may be best practice for some but may increase latency at the resolver.
IPv4 Service Continuity over IPv6-only Networks: Focus on Multicast Services
Guest Post: RFC8114 provides a solution to deliver IPv4 multicast services to IPv4 clients over an IPv6 multicast network.
Improving peering relationships in Japan
Guest Post: Learn about the peering characteristics of Japan Internet Exchange.
How to observe allocated IPv6 addresses
Guest Post: By adapting a previous measuring method, we are able to observe how operators allocate IPv6 addresses more easily.
Event Wrap: China Member Gathering, Guangzhou
APNIC hosted a two-day Member Gathering in Guangzhou, China from 20 to 21 April.
New chapter beckons after growing Myanmar’s leading private ISP
Thein Mynit Khine knows every PoP and wire of Myanmar’s Yatanarpon Teleport Public Company Limited’s (YTP) core network.