March 24, 2011
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I predicted that IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) hungry companies would start shopping for IPv4 addresses and a market would be created. I was right. As part of Nortel’s bankruptcy settlement, Microsoft has offered to buy Nortel 666,624 IPv4 addresses … Continue reading
March 3, 2011
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Juniper Networks announced today, March 3, that the networking company was releasing a new suite of products and services that delivers what its calls the “first Converged Supercore” for service and content providers: Juniper’s Converged Supercore This is an integrated … Continue reading
February 13, 2011
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We know you can take down Web sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. We know that a country, like Egypt, can knock down a country’s entire Internet infrastructure. And, we thought we knew that you couldn’t take down … Continue reading
February 3, 2011
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The various Internet management groups made it official this morning. We’re now out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet address blocks. The final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR), which, … Continue reading
February 1, 2011
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If the Internet was a car, it would be running out of gas and the fuel warning idiot light would have just come on. Late yesterday, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned its last two available blocks of IPv4 … Continue reading
January 28, 2011
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We think of the Internet as universal. We think of it in terms of a utility like electricity or water. It’s none of those things. In some countries, like the U.S., it would be very hard to ‘turn off’ the … Continue reading