While Google’s YouTube outage today generated a steady stream of tweets and blog posts, a quick look at traffic across 50 or so small / mid-size ISPs around the world suggests this was more of a “blip” than a global outage. Certainly the outage was nowhere as large nor prolonged as the great “GoogleLapse” last [...]
Google’s recent FTTH announcement generated a wave of media coverage and industry discussion. Responses ranged from exuberant local communities racing to sign up to anti-competitive howls from incumbent carriers. Industry pundits wondered what is Google up to? What will the search giant do with 1Gbps to the home? And more ominously, is Google getting too [...]
IPv6 is one of the biggest topics of hallway conversations at the Austin, TX NANOG conference last week ranking right up there with “what I did last night” and “did you try the barbeque from xxxx?” The questions on many people’s lips are “What are you doing with IPv6″ and “when are you rolling it out?” [...]