Random thoughts on the ISP industry
As the end of 2019 comes closer it is a good tradition to look back at the year behind us. For me, one of the highlights was the fact that China landed a probe on the [...]
Two means one, and one means none. Always carry two pens to a meeting. And when it comes to IT, every engineer and all managers know the meaning of the word ‘redundant’. Having your redundancy sorted [...]
This summer, the RIPE NCC was flooded with new membership requests. Companies wanted to become a member and receive a /22 IPv4 block (1024 public addresses) either for their own use or as a good investment. [...]
We joined only a few Internet Exchanges and have a selective peering policy. The great thing about any IX is that all its member networks announce only their own routes. If you send traffic to another [...]
The ‘quality’ of Internet connections is all about latency and stability. You want your traffic to be delivered with the lowest possible latency and use the same routes for as long as possible. If routes change, [...]
‘The digital threat to our national security is permanent.’ That is a clear statement from the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NTCV) in his annual Threat Assessment. It is nothing new, though. We know that [...]
It seems like everybody is talking about 5G, which should become the new standard of mobile Internet and be available in Europe next year. Especially the automotive industry wants it, because of the high data capacity [...]
The best large capacity networks are useless, if you cannot access them from your work space in the office, right? This is why Fusix also builds high capacity, high speed networks for offices. In partnership with [...]
We want 2019 to be the year of routing security and are committed to this goal. The book “Day One: Deploying BGP routing security” that the CTO of Fusix Niels Raijer wrote together with Melchior Aelmans [...]
You would think that this question was obsolete, but unfortunately in our business of Internet Service Providers, there is still a lot of ‘creative marketing’ going on – not to use the term ‘lying’. To be [...]
