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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the growth of the Internet. Two particular events, as far as I’m aware, have encouraged this. One of these was an announcement by Cogent that they were lowering prices. The other was the release of a Cisco whitepaper on global IP traffic growth.
Cogent has always been the [...]

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For a while now I’ve been hearing about a “war” between MPLS and Carrier Ethernet proponents. Sometimes it’s framed as an IETF versus IEEE debate. Sometimes it’s framed as the incumbent carriers versus next-generation service providers. And so on. Take for instance a blog post by Nortel’s CTO, John Roese, discussing The Future of the [...]

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There is an interesting article on the Great Firewall of China, dubbed the “Golden Shield Project”, at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall. It’s not very technical but it does go into the various techniques used.
It’s especially interesting to consider that these techniques are often used in “network management” in the US, and that the techniques employed by P2P protocols [...]

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Today there was an announcement on the linux-netdev mailing list of some improvements to the TCP CUBIC algorithm. I haven’t paid much attention to any of the new high-capacity TCP variants, but this sounds like good stuff. I will have to investigate.

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