From February 17-20, 2019, San Francisco hosted the 75th North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) conference for network professionals. This long-running event brings together industry veterans, innovators, and entrepreneurs from around the world to speak on...
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6connect & HexaBuild Announce Transformative Partnership
San Jose, CA – January 29, 2019 – 6connect is pleased to announce a partnership with HexaBuild, an IT professional services consultancy with industry-recognized IPv6 expertise, in a joint mission to drive forward industry change. Both 6connect and HexaBuild recognize...
How Big is IPv6, Really? (Video)
First - some context: I was preparing a presentation on IPv6 for Silicon Valley DevOps Days a couple of months ago, and looked around for visualizations to show the scale of IPv6 in comparison to IPv4. IPv4 isn’t going anywhere, but the reality is that dual stack...
Measuring IPv6 Traffic with NodeJS and Google Analytics
Some Questions That Keep Us Up At Night Recently we found ourselves wondering - how many of our website’s visitors are capable of utilizing IPv6 traffic? Of course, there are a number of places out there where you can see global IPv6 adoption rates [link] and other...
LACNIC 30 Conference Overview
Organizers put on a great show during the recent LACNIC 30 conference hosted in Rosario, Argentina, from September 24-28. The event included an appearance by one of our favorite superheroes, the Incredible Hulk, taking the stage to help lighten the mood after a number...
NANOG 74 Conference Overview
NANOG returned to Vancouver, Canada, for another deep dive into the state of network modernization. The conference kicked off on September 30th with a hackathon and was followed by two days of fascinating sessions from a number of industry luminaries. A special...
Time to Rewind: Let’s have some fun on the internet!
There was a time not long ago when the internet was capitalized. Likes and pokes were topics of debate, and VCR dubbed recordings found their way onto YouTube, which you discovered while stumbling through Alta Vista. Some refer to this era of internet content...
Three Major Network Provisioning Challenges Facing Service Providers (2018)
Businesses’ and consumers’ growing dependence on the network, the rise of mobile computing, virtualization, dual-stack networks and the demand for more and better Cloud-based services, have combined to present service providers with three major challenges: ensuring...
NANOG 73 Conference Overview
Name of Event: NANOG 73 Date of Event: June 24,2018 Location of Event: Denver, Colorado Number of attendees: 1073 Sponsoring Organization(s): CoreSite NANOG 73 Overview The NANOG 73 Conference was buzzing on Sunday, June 24th. Juniper jumpstarted the morning with a...