Three of the best: IoT
The top three posts on Internet of Things topics from 2016.
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IoT solutions to help reduce human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka
Guest Post: Simple IoT solutions can protect both lives and livelihoods in Sri Lanka.
The network layer isn’t where the action is right now for IoT
IoT discussions are increasingly focused on application-level standards, exploring how IoT devices can exploit secure reliable byte streams to communicate their capabilities and command/control logic.
IoT over IPv6 just got interesting (for reasons of scale)
Google recently chose to open source the ‘Threads’ protocol. To use it, you’re going to have to learn how to live in an IPv6-only world.
When IoT meets IPv6
Guest Post: When it comes to the network layer, let’s look into how IPv6 could be applied.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the Internet of risks
Billions of devices will be connected to the Internet of Things… but will they be secure?
INNOG 9 at APNIC 62: Building resilient infrastructure for the next Internet
INNOG 9, co-located with APNIC 62, offered a distinctly operational perspective, drawing on experiences from India and Bangladesh. Topics ranged from IPv6 deployment and submarine cable infrastructure, to lessons learned from Internet disruptions.
Seven years of IPv6 in production: Lessons from one million broadband subscribers
Guest Post: IPv6 deployment is often described as a protocol upgrade. In reality, operating IPv6 at broadband scale is a test of subscriber management, DHCP, CPE interoperability, observability, and operational processes. Over seven years, WorldLink Communications grew to more than one million dual-stack subscribers, with around 70% of traffic now carried over IPv6. Here are the lessons that mattered most.
The lingering legacy of ‘reserved’ ports
Modern service discovery mechanisms increasingly allow services to run on arbitrary ports, yet DNS may remain the one protocol that cannot fully escape its dependency on the long-established convention of port 53.
IPv6 address planning: From ‘bit conservation’ to ‘elegant alignment’
Guest Post: When planning IPv6 addressing schemes, many engineers still carry over habits from the IPv4 era. The instinct is to conserve every possible bit and to compress region, service, and network type information into the smallest space that meets current needs. While this approach once made sense, it is poorly suited to IPv6.