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Network AF, Episode 4: Untangling business in the ISP industry with Elliot Noss
On today’s episode of the Network AF podcast, Avi welcomes Elliot Noss, President, and CEO of Tucows. Elliot has a love and passion for the internet that started the moment he was introduced to it. This passion comes through as he discusses his goals in networking and the positive change he wants to make in solving cybercrime issues at the DNS level.
NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 2
Encryption forced NPM vendors to evolve. In part 2 of this series, let’s discuss NPM’s evolution, including synthetic testing as one recent advancement.
Network AF, Episode 3: Uniting networking pros with Salesforce’s Janine Malcolm
In the latest episode of Network AF, you’ll meet Janine Malcolm, director of network engineering at Salesforce. Here’s a recap of the podcast, where Janine talks about her journey to get to where she is today and how she became interested in networking itself.
NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2
Encryption and cloud adoption are creating hurdles for network performance monitoring vendors. To survive, solutions must evolve or die.
Network AF, Episode 2: Backbone engineering and interconnection with Nina Bargisen
In episode 2 of Network AF, Nina Bargisen joins Avi to discuss network interconnection and peering, her career in networking, and mentorship and diversity issues in network engineering.
Facebook’s historic outage, explained
Facebook suffered a historic and nearly six-hour global outage on October 4. In this post, we look at Kentik’s view of the outage.
Listen up: The Network AF podcast is here
Today our Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman launches Network AF, his new podcast. Come and listen to all-things networking, cloud, the internet and more. The first episode is out today!
Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Last Tuesday, September 14th was the second Tuesday of the month, and for anyone running a network or working in IT, you know what that means: another Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Doug Madory looks at how the resulting traffic surge can be analyzed using Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking.
Why latency is the new outage
Adding more bandwidth from the business to the cloud is like adding more cowbell to Grazing in the Grass. In many cases, it won’t improve the end-user experience when latency is the real problem.
Wait, Did AS8003 Just Disappear?
There has been a new development in The Mystery of AS8003.
As you may recall, this was the AS number registered to a defunct company in Florida that appeared earlier this year in the global routing table announcing over 175 million IPv4 addresses belonging to the US Department of Defense.
Well, that just changed.