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Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Redcentric's £124.90m settlement closes the sale, not the earnings question
The final data-centre payment is now cash rather than an estimate. Redcentric's next test is whether its smaller managed-services business can turn recurring contracts into durable profit and cash.
History
The Address Belonged to the Port, Not the Machine: RFC 2171
Unplug a node from one MAPOS switch port and attach it to another. The computer may be unchanged, but the link-layer address is not: the value comes from the new point of attachment. RFC 2171 made that rule central to a scheme that turned point-to-point optical links into a…
Story
The Route Was Absent. The Traffic Still Found It: APNIC 62’s BGP Neighbor Problem
A route-origin filter can leave an operator’s table clean while a downstream neighbor forwards toward the rejected destination. An APNIC 62 presentation made that uncomfortable distinction concrete. The useful response is to preserve separate evidence of received routes, local…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
IQE’s £41.6m Cash Balance Is Not Its InP Ramp
IQE sold more wafers and improved adjusted profit in the first half of 2026. Its cash-flow statement tells a more demanding story: the stronger balance sheet followed a financing, while converting existing equipment into dependable indium-phosphide output remains work for the…
Story
One Revoked Certificate, Three Browser Outcomes at APNIC 62
The certificate was on the revocation list. That was not the end of the story. Geoff Huston's APNIC 62 demonstration put the same adverse record in front of three browser policies and obtained different results—a useful warning about the distance between publishing a security…
History
The Record Was There. RWhois Could Not Find It: RFC 2167
A 1997 directory design exposed an uncomfortable difference between storing a record and putting it where a query can discover it. RWhois could refer a reader toward the responsible area; neither the referral nor an answer certified the underlying claim.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Corero’s 42% revenue growth has a second clock
Corero’s half-year sales and margin improved sharply. Its recurring contract base moved at a different pace, and the revenue table shows why both observations can be true.
History
A Fast Bus Was Not an Ethernet: RFC 2143’s Missing Peer
The attraction was obvious in 1997: put nearby workstations on a fast SCSI cable and carry IP between them. The hard part was not fitting an IPv4 datagram into a command. It was making a peripheral bus accept an unsolicited message from another host—and finding a neighbor when…
IETF
A Batch Receipt Is Not a Security Action: The IETF’s Multi-SET Push Test
An IETF draft would send many security-event tokens in one HTTPS request. Its individual receipts may cut transport cost, but they leave a separate question for every receiving organisation: which event actually changed a local account or credential, and when?
History
The Connection Closed. Its Measurements Stayed: RFC 2140 and TCP's Host-Pair Memory
A short TCP exchange can finish before it has learned much about the route it used. In 1997, Joe Touch asked why the next exchange between the same hosts should have to forget everything the first had observed. The answer was not to preserve the entire connection. It was to…
IETF
Two “Not Ready” Reviews Put ACTN’s Packet–Optical Control Boundary on Trial
The IETF’s packet–optical ACTN draft has reached Last Call with an extensive map of controller interactions. Security and operations reviewers now ask what the map cannot settle: who trusts a topology update, and what survives when only one layer completes a change.
History
The Socket Call Survived; the Address Contract Did Not: RFC 2133
A program could keep calling `connect()` after IPv6 arrived and still misunderstand the address it was sending. RFC 2133 preserved the familiar socket verbs while moving compatibility into the structures, families and kernel state those verbs carried.
IETF
The Last Call Is for the Question, Not the Filter
The IESG has opened a final comment period on how to describe the limits of inter-domain source address validation. The October 1 deadline concerns an Informational problem statement and requirements, not approval of a universal filtering protocol. The distinction matters at the…
North America Datacenter
CleanSpark seeks $2.23bn for Meta-backed data centre
CleanSpark plans to raise $2.227bn in secured notes for its 175MW Sandersville project, where Meta backs a 20-year lease.
History
One DHCP Packet, Four Different Claims: What RFC 2132 Did Not Identify
A client could put a vendor class, a binding key and a shopping list into the same DHCP message. RFC 2132 gave each a different job. Reading them as one trustworthy portrait of a machine mistakes a configuration exchange for proof of identity or operation.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange commissions Telesat Lightspeed gateway
Orange and Telesat have commissioned Lightspeed’s first European gateway in France ahead of the constellation’s planned 2028 commercial launch.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Brave Bison’s 360p System1 offer was worth 328.9p at the live share price
The fourth proposal has a fixed 135p cash floor but a floating share component. That makes its advertised value, its live market value and the votes needed for control three separate ledgers—not one takeover number.
History
The Command Stayed ASCII. The Reader Needed More Than Bytes: RFC 2130
A mail server's command and the explanation a person reads after it fails can travel in the same conversation. The 1996 IAB character-set workshop insisted they were not the same design problem. Its report, RFC 2130, treated international text as a chain of explicit choices, not…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
VodafoneThree puts 9Tbps 5G core live
Ericsson's cloud-native core gives the merged operator one platform for traffic and service control, while sliced-service performance still depends on radio and transport.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Huawei brings NPO to 4,096-NPU Atlas 960E
Huawei says its Hi-ONE optical engines cut module count and interconnect power, but production reliability and repair procedures remain unproven outside vendor testing.