This weekend has seen a few opportunities for various organisations to do better with their internet service performance. This is Saturday afternoon, the wife was wanting to get further information on the Queen’s club tennis matches that she was watching on television. An attempt the visit their site resulted in an 503 HTTP error message. …
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Jun
09
2011
Is this the end for Nokia?
In this Reuters report, it appears that Nokia is still on the downward spiral. The most worrying thing is that S&P have downgraded (from BBB+) to BBB- thier view of the Nokia (NOK) stock. This means that the following the companies recent announcement that earnings are likely to be substantially lower, the markets don’t appear …
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Jun
08
2011
The Future is Forever, with IPv6
So today (June 8 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day. With global particpation of many providers (including Google, Facebook and others) it was hoped that the whole chain between end-user, ISPs, Peering-Points and Content Providers …
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Jun
04
2011
Dual Chipset Motherboards? it’s an expensive way of preparing for an upgrade.
Looking at the AnandTech article on Asus’s Danshui Bay Concept motherboard, I’m impressed with the idea, but not sure that it’s going to work in the execution. The idea is that you can prevent the expense of a motherboard upgrade during the socket switch over process so beloved of Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) when …
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May
07
2011
End-of-Life: Riverbed announces EOL for Shark Appliance Kits
Following on from the acquisition of CACE Technologies, Riverbed (RVBD) is announcing the withdrawal of the Shark Appliance Kits (software and network card) that allowed users to create thier own appliances. This doesn’t fit the Riverbed support and distribution model, so these are being withdrawn, and only the Cascade Shark Appliances remain available.
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Feb
24
2011
Juniper QFabric Switches use Autonomic Ideas
So Juniper Networks (JNPR) have launched a new idea in switching, expanding the swicthing fabric across muliple chassis in thier QFabric switch platform. In thier launch video (it’s 76 minutes long, 45 minutes of launch video, and 30 minutes of Q&A), they show that they have been able to achieve this with several ideas that …
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Feb
03
2011
Goodbye IPv4 Address Space?
So today marked an auspicious occasion in which the last 5 /8 IP addresses were handed to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). APNIC in a prior meeting was assigned the previous two /8 ranges, leaving just the 5 /8′s allocated today. These were then distributed to ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC and AfriNIC, …
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Nov
10
2010
Time for a new mobile, good-bye Nokia, hello HTC
It’s time to change my mobile phone again. I don’t have anything against my Nokia E75, which lasted well.. but the choices I made back in this post ( “Not a camera phone, but a business phone” ) have changed a little. The Symbain platform hasn’t taken off, and with the Symbian Foundation’s absorbtion back …
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Sep
03
2010
End-of-Life: Juniper WXC590 platform
Juniper (JNPR) has announced the End-of-Life for the WXC590 platform. This effectively kills off the old WXC platform models, and leaves only the new Juniper hardware platform designs left that were announced back in 2008 (See ).
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Jul
07
2010
End-of-Life: Riverbed announces End-of-Life for Steelhead Mobile Controller
Riverbed (RVBD) has announced the End-of-Life for it’s first Steelhead Mobile Controller 8500, replacing it with the SMC8650, or the SMC-VE virtualised platform. The SMC8650 supports 40 concurrent licenses, up from 30 in the previous model, and effectively moves the platform to the new hardware basis that Riverbed is using, as has been seen with …
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