Topic
Peering and Transit
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IETF
Enke Chen and the Route That Outlived Its Session
A BGP session can disappear while the forwarding state learned through it still works. RFC 9494 permits some of that old state to remain far longer than ordinary graceful restart—but it does not call the state current. It marks the route, lowers its preference, limits where it…
IETF
Bruno Decraene and the Discipline of Draining Before Shutdown
A planned BGP maintenance window is not a surprise failure. Yet an operator who closes the session first can make it behave like one: the old routes vanish, the network begins searching, and packets arrive while the replacement path is still becoming usable. The more disciplined…
Global Regional ISP Trends
The Five Percent That Prices the Network
A 95th-percentile bandwidth bill looks like a statistic. In practice it is a contract: a rule for deciding which traffic peaks the buyer absorbs, which the provider ignores, how much capacity remains physically available, and whether the buyer can reproduce the number on the…
History
The Core That Had to Stop Being the Core: EGP and the Invention of Autonomous Systems
The early Internet did not decentralize by pretending that every network agreed. It learned to survive disagreement. The Exterior Gateway Protocol drew a boundary around what one routing administration could keep private and what it had to tell its neighbours. That boundary made…
History
When One Router Announced Everyone’s Network: AS7007 and the Failure of Unchecked Trust
When One Router Announced Everyone’s Network: AS7007 and the Failure of Unchecked Trust 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 Trends
AfPIF opens in Kigali with interconnection on the table
The 15th African Peering and Interconnection Forum is under way in Rwanda with operators, exchanges and infrastructure providers facing a practical test: a meeting can lower the cost of finding partners, but only new sessions, routes and capacity can change how traffic moves.
IETF
IETF Records a FAR Fault-Avoidance Routing Revision for Data-Centre Networks
Revision 26 of the FAR Internet-Draft is a design note about dealing with failures in regular data-centre fabrics. It does not establish an IETF standard, a vendor implementation, a deployment, or a measured operational result.
IETF
IETF FARE Draft Brings Multi-Plane Route Choice to the RNIC
The new FARE-in-MPSON Internet-Draft treats the network interface as a routing decision point when scale-out AI fabrics are split into isolated planes. It is a work in progress, not an approved IETF feature, a deployment announcement or a performance result.
IETF
IETF Updates Its BGP FARE Adaptive-Routing Draft
The latest FARE text places an operational constraint beside BGP-based adaptive routing in a CLOS fabric: a weighted ECMP decision depends on comparable path-bandwidth information across the whole equal-cost set. It is an Internet-Draft, not an IETF-approved routing feature or a…
IETF
IETF Updates Its Encrypted PDMv2 IPv6 Diagnostics Draft
The IETF’s current PDMv2 draft asks a governance question inside an IPv6 diagnostics mechanism: who may see timing and endpoint information, and under what prior authorization? It is an active draft, not a deployed encryption product or an approved standard.
IETF
IETF Updates Its SR-MPLS STAMP Measurement Draft
The IETF’s latest SR-MPLS STAMP draft turns a familiar operations question into explicit protocol work: whether a probe is assessing the path that traffic is actually engineered to use. It remains a draft, not a deployment announcement or a new standard.
Story
India’s Routing-Security Coverage Is Rising Faster Than Invalid-Route Filtering
APNIC’s latest India ecosystem review points to rapid gains in RPKI coverage alongside a much smaller reported share of networks filtering invalid announcements. The gap is a monitoring problem, not a verdict on national resilience.
IETF
IETF Updates Erik Sync Draft for RPKI Publication
An updated IETF Internet-Draft describes a relay-based way to distribute RPKI publication data. It is a current design proposal, not a new Internet standard or a deployment announcement.
Global Datacenter Trends
Data-centre capacity starts with usable power
A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Internet infrastructure needs a bottleneck map
More fibre does not guarantee resilience when cable landings, backhaul, power and interconnection still share one failure domain.
Global Regional ISP Trends
An internet connection is a service chain, not a speed test
A fast result to a nearby server can hide congestion, weak Wi-Fi, distant routing and slow repair. Reliability is an end-to-end property.
Global Cloud Services Trends
5G speed begins behind the antenna
A new radio icon does not guarantee a faster service. Spectrum, site density, fibre backhaul and core capacity determine whether 5G performance survives the busy hour.
Global Datacenter Trends
Colocation value is operational, not spatial
Renting a rack is the visible transaction. The durable value comes from resilient power, useful interconnections, physical controls and support that works during an incident.
Global Cloud Services Trends
LEO performance still depends on ground infrastructure
Dr Nitinder Mohan’s measurements point to a practical limit in satellite broadband: lower orbital latency does not guarantee a fast application when traffic still reaches distant gateways, DNS resolvers or content caches.
Global Regional ISP Trends
Cable resilience needs diverse landings, not just more cable names
A coastline can appear well connected on a cable map while several systems still share one landing site, terrestrial corridor or repair dependency. Resilience begins where those common paths separate.