Topic
Peering and Transit
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Africa Regional ISP Trends
WIOCC's capacity is real. The useful question is where it reaches you
Equiano's 144 Tbps design makes an impressive headline. WIOCC's control of a fibre pair and its terminal equipment tells a buyer something more practical: who can turn that potential into a service. The rest of the journey still matters.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
HKIX has the traffic. Does it have the connection you need?
A busy exchange is reassuring. But its traffic graph cannot tell a network buyer whether the right counterpart is reachable on the right terms.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
What a LINX membership buys beyond the port
The entry fee is easy to find. The harder question is how a shared exchange turns members' payments into a connection they can depend on.
Story
AFRINIC's address reserve cannot promise an easy move
NAPafrica told a policy meeting that an address change begun eight years earlier was still unfinished. The problem facing a growing Internet exchange is not only finding more addresses, but finding them where its network can use them.
North America Datacenter
In Hawaii, the internet also needs a way to stay home
Undersea cables connect Hawaii to distant markets. HIX has a less spectacular job: helping nearby institutions reach one another without an unnecessary ocean crossing.
CASE FILE
At Seattle's internet exchange, the port is only the first purchase
A one-off port charge makes SIX an unusual place to buy connectivity. The harder calculation starts with the networks on the other end.
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Giga+ Fibra's better margins still have an interest bill to pay
The Brazilian fiber group is making more of a smaller customer base. Its quarterly cash figures show both the progress and the distance between an operating improvement and money left over.
Africa Institutional
GARNET: Ghana's research network documents its mandate, not its operations
Ghana's national research and education network can be named, dated and mapped to seven public universities. What it cannot yet be is checked: neither its own site nor the regional body that recognises it publishes governance, funding, contracted capacity or the address resources…
Global Regional ISP
The Registry Names It. The Operating Layer Does Not Follow.
The Registry Names It. The Operating Layer Does Not Follow. 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…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
SwissIX's 400G port comes with a second line on the bill
The exchange's public prices and routing rules reveal what a faster connection buys—and which decisions still belong to the network connecting to it.
Global Regional ISP
GTA's business does not stop at the beach
A small cable stake and a large investment announcement tell only part of the story of Guam's GTA. Its service catalogue shows what happens between an ocean crossing and a connection a customer can actually use.
Global Datacenter
Continent 8's business is what happens between the servers
A hosting location puts equipment in the right place. Continent 8 also sells the connections between the businesses using it—and its public network identity is quite traceable.
Global Regional ISP
AS216429: Three Prefixes, One Observed Neighbour — Reading the Record, the Routing Table and the Gap Between Them
AS216429: Three Prefixes, One Observed Neighbour — Reading the Record, the Routing Table and the Gap Between Them intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the…
History
BGP Was Already Running in Cisco and NSFNET in 1989
By the time BGP appeared in an RFC, Cisco routers and NSFNET’s Nodal Switching Systems already had implementations. The June 1989 document captured a protocol still taking shape; a year later, its successor was a proposed standard that openly invited deployment experience to…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
QIX adds Google Cloud, but latency gains need a route-level test
Google Cloud’s arrival at the Qatar Internet Exchange is a concrete interconnection milestone. It is not, by itself, a measurement of faster service. QIX lists Google as connected, while the published announcement gives no route map, traffic share or before-and-after latency…
Story
Timor-Leste’s IXP Needs a Public Handover Record
An exchange can be installed with outside help and still depend on outside help to keep it running. Timor-Leste’s public record is now detailed enough to show why the transfer of routine responsibility deserves its own evidence.
Leaders
Emile Aben and the Trade-Off Behind a Wider BGP Sample
RIPE NCC’s Routing Information Service once treated more peerings as a way to see more of global routing. Emile Aben’s work on RIS makes a harder question visible: when does another BGP peer add a genuinely different view, and when does it mostly add data to store?
Story
AS36049: A Virtela Identifier That Outlived Its Routing
AS36049: A Virtela Identifier That Outlived Its Routing 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 Story…
Story
AS48019 and Terra-Telecom LLC: A Registry Record With an Unanswered Question
AS48019 and Terra-Telecom LLC: A Registry Record With an Unanswered Question 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…
History
India Funded NIXI in 2003. By 2007, 27 of 135 ISPs Had Joined Its Nodes
India Funded NIXI in 2003. By 2007, 27 of 135 ISPs Had Joined Its Nodes 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.…