All the Gs, part 1: Governing the radio spectrum
To understand broadband cellular network technology, it’s important to appreciate the history of the radio spectrum.
Tag: history
Opinion: The Internet’s next fifty years
What will be the nature and requirements of networks 50 years from now?
A brief history of the RFC format
No overstriking allowed! Why do RFCs have such strict text requirements?
Where text protocols came from, and why they’re not going anywhere
Text protocols can be read by humans, but they come with drawbacks. Do we need them?
Another chapter in the decline of the traditional telcos
Deregulation and the rise of CDNs has some telcos questioning the future of international transit.
The answer’s in the post
What can the experience of the Universal Postal Union tell us about the Internet’s arrangements for settlement and peering?
A brief history of recent advances in IPv6 security, Part I: Addressing
Guest Post: Securing IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration (SLAAC) has been ongoing since 2011.
AUSeries: ‘It takes a community.’ Building the Internet in Australia
The origin of the Internet for Australia echos that of many economies and is a story of a collective and communal effort.
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.
An RFC a day reveals an Internet in the making
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first RFC, Darius Kazemi revisited the first 365 RFCs — one for each day of 2019.