AT&T are buying from Brocade their Vyatta assets. Brocade's IP network assets are being split out and sold off as part of their impending sale to Broadcom . The Vyatta…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…
Uber Adopts IPv6, the Next-Gen Internet Protocol
Uber, the taxi company with no vehicles, has provided an interesting insight into their network infrastructure. Being a global company, they need to be accessible by those locations that are…
Upgrading VMware ESXi from 5.5U3 to 6.5 on-line
Today I upgraded my physical host from VMware ESXi 5.5U3 to 6.5 using the online update method. There were a couple of gotcha's that needed to be taken care of…
Amazon S3 outage on Tuesday – the growth of complexity.
So if you've been experiencing problems with access to some web sites and platforms on Tuesday 28th February 2017 between 09:37 and 13:54PST, you may have been a victim of…
Researching Internet and Sub-Sea cable links
Internet and sub-sea cable routes interest me. I've recently found a couple of good visual tools to support some of my investigations and thought you might want to have a…
#SaferInternetDay – so let’s sign some things, like that new repository
It's Safer Internet Day today. #giveasmile Part of being safe on the Internet is making sure you know what you are downloading.. so let's make sure that you're downloading those…
Building a Wireshark for CentOS 7
Update: If you're just keen on grabbing the latest Wireshark, check out the Wireshark on Centos TL;DR version. Or the new version 2.4.0 build documentation. So as part of some…