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September 28, 2018

RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag ARM, bandwidth, BBC, Belgium, Cable, China, development, Fiber, George Smith, hong kong, IBM, itt, Mobile, recognition, research, rip, shared, Sir Charles Kao, standard, stc, stl, subsea, switzerland, UK, usa, Willard Boyle

This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…

November 10, 2017

Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag bbr, Belgium, BGP, Brazil, change, DNS, dropbox, environment, estonia, germany, Google, greece, india, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, ireland, load-balancer, luxembourg, MPLS, performance, pop, proxy, router, routing, servers, switzerland, TCP, TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS), updated

Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…