Primary Domain
Internet Infrastructure
Within the Primary Domain facet, Internet Infrastructure intelligence groups reporting by primary domain so readers can follow a focused area of internet infrastructure, governance, connectivity markets, or digital capital. The page brings together related articles, public evidence, institutions, companies, people, regional exposure, operating dependencies, and market context that may otherwise sit across separate category pages. It explains the domain, the likely actor class, the market or governance context, and the source material readers should use when comparing signals. Operators, analysts, and governance readers can see how the same domain appears across events, profiles, market shifts, public-source evidence, regional dependencies, and longer-cycle infrastructure decisions over time.
Creators
Claudio Jeker: Maintaining a small, auditable BGP daemon for serious routing
Claudio Jeker has spent more than two decades keeping OpenBGPD small enough to audit and capable enough for serious routing roles. The project’s restraint reduces some software risks, but it cannot simplify BGP policy, routing-security dependencies or the consequences of a bad…
Creators
Harald Welte and the work of opening telecom’s closed interfaces
Across Linux firewalls, licence enforcement, open phones, GSM network functions and SIM tooling, Harald Welte repeatedly made closed communications systems inspectable. His record shows both the leverage of public implementations and the hardware, regulatory and maintenance…
North America Institutional Trends
Jim Mankowich and the Campus Wireless Choice That Preserved Voice Service
When Lawson State Community College planned a campus-wide wireless network in 2009, the hard question was not simply where to put access points. The college already carried voice calls over its network. Students and employees needed different traffic boundaries. Old buildings, a…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps Core Network Constrained by Campus Endpoints
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report says core links were upgraded from around 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and new points of presence plus peering were added. Translating this regional upgrade into research capacity, however, depends on national research networks, campus systems, commercial…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. This regional gain only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators and recurrent funding can sustain it after each…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Florian Obser and the Incremental Rebuild of OpenBSD Network Configuration
When a broad plan for one network-configuration service proved too ambitious, Florian Obser helped turn the unfinished idea into smaller working parts. The result was not a clean victory over complexity. It was a sequence of bounded changes, explicit trade-offs, and…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional
BELLA II’s five-country expansion is still a design process
RedCLARA has moved from market soundings to structured supplier dialogue, but Peru and four Central American priority countries should not yet be treated as new operational backbone nodes.
Number Resource Society
NIX at the University of Oslo: Reading AS44997 and AS203515 as Separate Network Records
NIX at the University of Oslo: Reading AS44997 and AS203515 as Separate Network Records intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet's 10 Gbps Core Still Relies on Campus Networks
UbuntuNet's 2023 report notes upgrades to 10 Gbps core links and added PoPs and peering. Whether these regional improvements reach researchers depends on national networks, campus facilities, commercial carriers, and the sustained operational funding that must continue after each…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s Core Still Depends on Campus Networks
UbuntuNet's 2023 report describes core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s, with new points of presence and peering. This regional progress only reaches researchers if national networks, campus systems, operators, and recurrent funding extend it beyond each AfricaConnect…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet's 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet's 2023 report described expanded backbone links from around 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. That regional advance only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators, and recurring funding can sustain it beyond each…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s core still depends on campus networks
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report describes core links upgraded from around 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s, complemented by new Points of Presence and peering. This regional progress reaches researchers only if national networks, campus infrastructure, carriers and recurring funding carry it beyond each…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps backbone still depends on university networks
The 2023 UbuntuNet report described upgrading core links from around 2.5 to 10 Gbps, with new points of presence and peering. Yet this regional improvement reaches researchers only if national networks, campus systems, carriers and recurring funding can carry it past each…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, with new points of presence and peering. That regional gain reaches researchers only when national networks, campus systems, carriers and recurring finance can carry it beyond each AfricaConnect…
Academics
Nick Feamster: making networks explain themselves, and exposing the limits of measurement
In 2005, a checker he co-developed reported over 1,000 previously undetected faults in 17 autonomous systems. Since then, his effort to make hidden infrastructure explainable has extended to spam, broadband, censorship, smart homes, and machine learning, repeatedly showing that…
Leaders
Pim van Pelt and the Decision to Sunset SixXS
Many infrastructure stories celebrate the moment a system starts. Pim van Pelt's more instructive story turns on the moment he and fellow operator Jeroen Massar decided that SixXS should stop. The service had helped people reach IPv6 when their providers did not offer it…
Global National Telecom
Arelion’s AS1299: Tier-1 Reach Requires Constant Renewal
Arelion’s AS1299: Tier-1 Reach Requires Constant Renewal 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…
Academics
Nick Feamster Created Tools to Explain Networks — and Exposed Their Limits
In 2005, a co-authored verifier reported over 1,000 previously undetected faults in 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make hidden infrastructure legible later extended to spam, broadband, censorship, connected homes, and machine learning — and repeatedly showed that an…
Academics
Nick Feamster built tools to explain networks and showed their limits
In 2005, a checking tool he co‑authored reported over 1,000 previously undetected faults from the configurations of 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make invisible infrastructure legible later extended to spam, broadband, censorship, smart homes, and machine learning…
Academics
Nick Feamster designed tools to explain networks – and revealed their limits
In 2005, a tool he co-wrote flagged over 1,000 previously undetected faults in the configurations of 17 autonomous systems. The same drive to make hidden infrastructure legible was later applied to spam, broadband, censorship, connected homes and machine learning – while showing…