ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) has hosted a number of interesting and helpful webinars this year. We joined the Using ARIN’s RESTful API for IRR webinar excited to learn how to manage multiple IRR records quickly by setting up systems to connect to...
(…and why this is a really bad idea these days 🙂 ) Imagine this scenario: you are sitting on the couch with your laptop open and all of a sudden there is a brief power outage. No big deal, a couple of your electronics will have to reboot and all is well. However, if...
Last summer, we announced the release of the long-awaited rpki-client project that we helped fund in a joint sponsorship with NetNod, IIS.SE, and SUNET. Specifically, rpki-client is an implementation that covers the client side of RPKI (Resource Public Key...
Still in Beta testing with some customers, but 6connect’s API Conductor Platform (ACP) is coming out in 2017. Initially billed as an add-on to ProVision to ease DevOps integration tasks, ACP is poised to make integration and workflow development faster and easier for...
It’s no secret that network security is an increasingly important and challenging issue for companies in 2015. The last year has seen some of the most high-profile and costly network attacks in history. At the same time, there is an unstoppable drive to grow networks...
It's been in progress for a while - but here is the official update for those that haven't heard. Peering 3.0 is officially in alpha testing and getting feedback from customers. We took a whole new approach to the Peering functionality along with even tighter...
IP networks and what it takes to manage them have become much more complex during the past several years, and this process continues to gather speed. Here are five business and technology trends that will drive still greater levels of complexity over the next few...
It’s a classic win-win scenario: Network service providers benefit from offering their customers self-service provisioning, and their customers benefit as well. If you’re a service provider, self-service can: 1. Reduce your costs . . . and your customers’ costs...
For carriers and hosting providers, a whole new level of network complexity has been added because large segments of their customers—and their customers’ customers—have unplugged desktops in favor of mobile devices. In 2012, smartphone sales surpassed those of...
