Content Type
Profile
Within the Content Type facet, Profile intelligence gathers BTW.MEDIA articles that share the same editorial format, helping readers compare briefings, profiles, risk notes, market analysis, and event coverage without mixing different kinds of evidence. The page explains how this content type frames internet infrastructure events, company movements, governance decisions, operational signals, and public evidence across the site. Readers can compare which actors or infrastructure systems appear most often, how source quality changes interpretation, and whether the material is a durable profile, a time-sensitive event, a strategic market signal, or a governance development. The result is a useful search page for operators, investors, customers, analysts, and policy stakeholders who need to understand the consequence, timing, and evidence behind similar article formats.
Leaders
Artem Izbaenkov and the Cost of Representation at RIPE NCC
Artem Izbaenkov’s 2024 campaign for a seat on the RIPE NCC Executive Board turned an operator’s career in DDoS defence and cloud security into a wider argument about who can participate effectively in registry governance—and what language, fees and institutional attention have to…
Creators
Stefan Savage and the measurement of cybercrime as a system
Stefan Savage’s research repeatedly replaced stories about attacks with measurements of traffic, supply chains, incentives and failure paths. From denial-of-service and worms to spam, payment networks, cloud infrastructure and connected vehicles, the recurring method is to…
Global Institutional
OIF and the work of making 1.6-terabit links agree
The Optical Internetworking Forum sits between formal standards and commercial products, turning optical, electrical and management choices into implementation agreements that vendors can build and operators can test. Its influence is clearest when several layers have to work…
Creators
Albert Greenberg and the network as a distributed computer
Across AT&T, Microsoft Azure and Uber, Albert Greenberg has worked on a recurring problem: how to make a large network behave like one coherent system when topology, traffic, control software, hardware and failure all change at different speeds. His influence is best understood…
Leaders
Prawijaya Prawijaya and the Human Name Inside a Network Record
Prawijaya Prawijaya and the Human Name Inside a Network Record intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
Global Institutional
ARTEMIS and the minute between a BGP warning and a safe response
ARTEMIS pairs public BGP observations with an operator’s own routing intent so suspicious announcements can be classified and answered quickly. The project’s record also exposes the harder problem: when visibility is partial and a counter-announcement can cause harm, speed is…
Creators
Jakub Kicinski: How Linux Turns Networking Features into Sustainable Infrastructure
A new network card may arrive with an impressive capability and a pressing commercial deadline. Linux must ask a slower question: can that capability be expressed in a form other devices can understand, operators can observe, tests can reproduce and maintainers can support years…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Velo Technologies expands its infrastructure business from Cyberjaya
The Malaysian private company spans data-centre capacity, cloud, managed security, networks and IT outsourcing. Its partnerships are increasingly visible, but its ownership names, absolute financial scale and the economics behind some of its infrastructure commitments remain…
Leaders
Aaron Wendel and What Two Failed ARIN Proposals Reveal About Operator Power
Fourteen years apart, two public tallies put Aaron Wendel on the losing side of consequential debates about Internet number resources. The defeats are more revealing than a conventional success story: they show how practical operating knowledge enters policy, how commercial…
Global Institutional
linuxptp and the control loop behind precision time
linuxptp turns a Linux host, hardware clock and network timing source into a precision-time system. Its daemons coordinate IEEE 1588 state, packet timestamps, servos and system clocks, but software alone cannot manufacture accuracy: the result still depends on NICs, oscillators…
Academics
Laurent Vanbever and the network that must be tested while it changes
Laurent Vanbever’s work treats network configuration as executable software whose failures can emerge before, during or after deployment. From safe routing migrations and configuration synthesis to runtime BGP detection and energy-aware operations, his research at ETH Zurich asks…
Academics
Katerina Argyraki and the search for proof in packet forwarding
Katerina Argyraki’s research follows a problem that becomes harder as networks become more programmable: a packet-processing system may be fast and flexible, yet operators and users often have little evidence that it behaved correctly. Her work at EPFL connects software-router…
Global Institutional
FreeRADIUS and the trust decisions behind network access
A network login may be decided in a few packets, but the trust behind it can span certificates, directories, access devices, roaming partners and accounting systems. FreeRADIUS makes that policy inspectable and programmable, while leaving operators responsible for the legacy…
Creators
Dave Maltz and the operating stack behind Azure networking
Dave Maltz’s role at Microsoft is best understood through the breadth of the organisation he leads. Azure Networking spans customer-facing services, DNS, security, distributed control, host offload, switch software, data-centre fabrics, wide-area links and optical systems. That…
Global Institutional
BIRD and the routing policy engine behind internet exchanges
The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon grew from a Czech university project into a control-plane system used in demanding routing environments, including internet exchanges where policy is concentrated and operational mistakes can spread quickly. Its history shows how open routing…
Creators
Jakub Kicinski: How Linux makes network features supportable
A new network card can arrive with an impressive capability and a commercial deadline. Linux has to ask a slower question: can the feature be expressed in a way that other hardware can understand, operators can observe, tests can reproduce and maintainers can still support years…
Global Institutional
Public Suffix List: The File That Draws Web Trust Boundaries
DNS can show that shop.example.co.uk sits beneath co.uk; it cannot tell a browser where independent registration begins. The Public Suffix List supplies that missing policy map. A volunteer-maintained text file now informs cookies, site grouping, certificates and service limits…
Global Institutional
containerd: the runtime daemon most container users never see
Kubernetes, Docker and managed cloud platforms make containers look like applications, pods and services. Beneath those interfaces, containerd moves images, prepares filesystems, preserves runtime state and supervises processes. Its value comes from being deliberately incomplete…
Global Institutional
DMTF: The Standards That Control Servers Below the Operating System
A server can be powered off, inspected, updated or reconfigured even when its operating system is unavailable. DMTF defines much of the language used for that privileged management plane, from Redfish APIs and MCTP transport to PLDM commands, SPDM identity and SMBIOS inventory.…
Global Institutional
Slurm: The Scheduler That Decides Who Gets the GPU
Slurm allocates scarce compute across HPC and AI clusters, turning queue policy into a practical decision about who gets GPUs and when. NVIDIA’s 2025 acquisition of SchedMD gave the project more resources while making vendor-neutral stewardship a question that now has to be…