Worth Reading: The State of the Internet in 2024 7 May 2024 5.35 billion people used the Internet at the end of 2023, up 97 million (1.8%) from a year earlier. This means almost two-thirds of people on the planet are connecting to the web. Worth Reading: High-speed packet transmission in Go 6 May 2024 Recently, I developed a Go program that sends ICMP ping messages to millions of IP addresses. Obviously, I wanted this to be done as fast and efficiently as possible. Worth Reading: FreeIX Remote 6 May 2024 Tier1 and aspiring Tier2 providers interconnect only in large metropolitan areas, due to commercial incentives and politics. They won’t often peer with smaller providers, because why peer with a potential customer? Worth Reading: The Battle for Network Monitoring 2 May 2024 An interesting battle is underway to capture the market for monitoring devices. The latest entry into the market is 5G RedCap. This is a technology that is currently under development in chipsets and ought to hit the market in 2025 and 2026. Worth Reading: IPv6 addressing 2 May 2024 What we have today is a single “boundary” in the IPv6 address plan, where the low order 64 bits are locally assigned as an interface identifier, and the high order 64 bits are in essence a network identifier, where the boundary between what constitutes locally defined site networks and globally visible networks is left to each network operator. Worth Reading: Are options widening for enterprise network services? 1 May 2024 Almost all enterprises get their network services from a big telco, but we’re starting to see a kind of network populism developing, generating things like “altnets” and “neutral hosts.” Might these new players offer things that could break the big-telco hold on enterprise services, and might they create both savings and headaches for enterprise? Yes, and yes. Worth Reading: In-network acceleration for AI/ML workloads 1 May 2024 Let’s take an example of gradient aggregation across model copies. In a GPU cluster with Nd model copies and Nm GPUs in each model copy, Nm gradient aggregation threads will run in parallel at the end of each training iteration. Worth Reading: Destination-Adjacent Source Address spoofing 30 April 2024 In August 2023, the Dataplane.org sensor network began observing a unique pattern of source address-spoofed DNS scanning activity. The most peculiar thing about these scans is that the source IP addresses were faked to a neighbor address of the target. Worth Reading: Responsible outage reporting 30 April 2024 Yet despite the thorough disclosure practices that have been adopted in other industries, the information technology industry all too often regards itself as “special”. For decades software vendors have been able to sell faulty and insecure product without even a hint of liability, and the effort to improve the robustness of their products was often seen as an avoidable cost to the software vendor. Worth Reading: Optical non-linear compensation 29 April 2024 In the search for longer reach and higher capacity of optical systems we have devised a new set of non-linear mitigations, which include Nyquist subcarriers, Soft Decision Forward Error Correcting codes. Super-Gaussian PCS and Non-linear compensation. « Previous 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 34 Next »
