Random thoughts on the ISP industry
Every night, a lot of our private information is being uploaded to a central database of the government. Regardless of what you think of that, we need to make sure that the government has proper rules [...]
The hottest topic among network admins these days is clearly Routing Security. Your ISP (and you?) use Routing Security to make the Internet a more secure place. Well, not the entire Internet, maybe, but at least [...]
To be fair, these days that doesn’t sound hard, with all the news and political drama coming from over there. Sometimes it even feels as if we cannot get around the US even for one single [...]
There is a common misconception about Internet bandwidth, when it comes to your home internet and a b2b internet in an office or at a data centre. It is about capacity and usage. But there is [...]
We are a trusting bunch of people in the Internet world. When it comes to routing traffic between ISPs, the Internet is built on trust: when someone announces an IP range, we believe them ‘on their [...]
With about eight months to go, we still have no more of a clue what is going to happen when Brexit is a fact in March 2019, than we did on the morning after the British [...]
Configuring network equipment is not only time consuming, it also produces a risk that something goes wrong. Adding an extra link, upgrading capacity of an existing link, or configuring a new port for a customer can [...]
Do you recognize this scenario: Friday late afternoon and everybody is getting ready to leave the office. A client calls who would like to have some changes made. Yes, we will try to help as much [...]
The Dutch market for Internet via cable is tight. Up until Ziggo merged with UPC, there was some choice. However, once the takeover was complete, the choice was gone – third parties cannot provide their services [...]
It looked like every company waited until the very last second to start sending out e-mails about the GDPR and renewing subscriptions to newsletters. I don’t know about you, but I received a lot of those [...]
