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North America Cloud Services Trends
The Azure Front Door Protection Bypass That Became an Accountability Test
Microsoft’s account of QNBQ-5W8 shows how a temporarily disabled safeguard let bad control-plane metadata reach edge resources—and why recovery promises need operational proof.
Story
The reciprocal bridge AFRINIC drafted before it had a transfer path
A 2018 proposal tried to solve a deceptively practical problem: how two regional registries could recognise the same cross-border resource transfer without mistaking their shared recordkeeping for ownership of the resource. Its best provisions made the ledger follow reality; its…
Story
Two words, two directions: AFRINIC’s IPv6 sub-assignment redline
On 22 August 2018, the words “semi-permanent connectivity” appeared in an AFRINIC proposal about IPv6 provider-independent assignments. They seemed to tighten a familiar prohibition. Yet the same revision removed a numerical limit, discarded a peculiar restriction on…
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a Managed Network Across Clouds and Fibre
Alkira turned multi-cloud routing, segmentation, and service insertion into a managed control plane that enterprises could consume via portal or code. Lumen’s $475 million acquisition now tests whether owning fibre improves path security without turning an abstraction built for…
Global Cloud Services
Alkira: Building a managed network across clouds and fibre
Alkira transformed multi-cloud routing, segmentation and service insertion into a managed control plane consumed via a portal or code. Its $475 million acquisition by Lumen tests whether owned fibre strengthens path assurance without turning the multi-provider abstraction layer…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave's Network Must Turn Financed Capacity into Useful AI Uptime
CoreWeave reported 43 data centres and over 850 MW of active power, versus roughly 3.1 GW contracted, while Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network under the GPUs must convert this financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before carrying costs and…
Global Cloud Services
Can CoreWeave’s Network Turn Financed Capacity into Productive AI Hours?
CoreWeave reports 43 data centres and over 850 MW of live power, with approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power and Microsoft making up 67% of its 2025 revenue. The networking stack beneath the GPUs must convert pre‑financed capital commitments into reliable, diversified services…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave's network must turn financed capacity into usable AI time
CoreWeave reported 43 datacenters and more than 850 MW of active capacity, while around 3.1 GW was contractually secured and Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must turn this financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before…
Global Cloud Services
The CoreWeave Network Must Turn Funded Capacity into Useful AI Time
CoreWeave disclosed 43 data centres and over 850 MW of active power, against roughly 3.1 GW contracted; Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network underneath its GPUs must turn this funded expansion into reliable, diversified service before financing costs and…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
PerfGrid and the Infrastructure Evidence Behind Hosting
Hosting is often sold as a single service, but it is delivered through several control layers: company responsibility, server operation, address and routing records, name service, caching, suppliers, facilities, monitoring and recovery. PerfGrid’s public record offers a useful…
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…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
PXNET and the Records Behind Network Operations
PXNET appears in public records through more than one network identifier and through several evidence systems that answer different operational questions. Read carefully, those records show how registry entries, operator-maintained directories, observed routing and origin…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
INTERBIT and the Boundaries of Network Identity
A company name can appear to offer a simple answer to a network question. In practice, the identity behind an Internet service is distributed across legal records, number-resource registries, declared routing policy, observed routes, service descriptions and the equipment that…
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 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…
Story
AFRINIC’s docket shows a live policy challenge—not a court-validated ratification
AFRINIC’s public case list separates three Skyconnect proceedings: a 9 March plaint challenging the Board’s ratification of the inter-RIR transfer policy, an interim-order application marked declined and not served, and an appeal filed on 7 April. All three entries are labelled…
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…