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Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for Large-Scale AI
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium seeks to transform the data centre's most familiar network into a complete infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link-level recovery…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Lycamobile's 2024 porting failures showed why providers must prove every identity check actually ran
A mobile number is easy to mistake for a line in an account record. In practice, it is a route through which calls, messages and security codes reach a person. When that number is moved to a new provider, operational control moves too. Australia's communications regulator found…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Southern Phone's 2024–2025 porting failures showed why number-transfer controls need continuous testing
A mobile number can look like a simple contact detail, but in everyday life it often works as a key. Banks send one-time codes to it. Friends, employers and service providers use it to identify the person they expect to reach. Moving that number to a new carrier therefore changes…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Telecentro's AS27747 Identifies a Network, Not Its Resilience
Telecentro's AS27747 Identifies a Network, Not Its Resilience 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 Latin…
Global Cloud Services
ELSOUL LABO B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: What Can AS200261 Prove About a Low-Latency Service?
ELSOUL LABO B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: What Can AS200261 Prove About a Low-Latency Service? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Leaders
Joe Abley and the Work of Making Distributed DNS Visible
One Internet address does not always lead to one machine. A service can place machines in many cities, connect them through different networks, and make all of them reachable through the same address. The arrangement can make a service easier to reach from many places, but it…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus's 2021–2023 IPND failures showed why outsourcing a data feed does not outsource accountability
A carrier can hire another company to prepare and send a regulatory data feed. It cannot hire away responsibility for the result. Australia's communications regulator found that required public-number customer information for Optus services was not supplied to the Integrated…
Global Cloud Services
OVH US LLC in the RIPE Ledger: What Must an Exit-Ready BYOIP Plan Prove?
Keeping the same public IP addresses during a cloud move can spare a business from changing allowlists, customer integrations and the reputation attached to those addresses. It can also create a dangerous illusion: if the addresses still look familiar, the move must be under…
Global Cloud Services
IONOS SE in the RIPE Ledger: Can Reverse DNS Survive an IP Address Handover?
Moving a service to a new public IP address can look like a small infrastructure task. The server may be healthy and the forward domain may already point to it, yet mail, monitoring, allowlists and incident work can still fail if the address-to-name side of DNS was forgotten. The…
Global Cloud Services
Liquid Web B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: Can an Abuse Report Reach the Right Operator?
Liquid Web B.V. in the RIPE Ledger: Can an Abuse Report Reach the Right Operator? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
Global Cloud Services
Hostinger Operations UAB as Registrar: Can a Business Recover Its Domain When the Administrator Disappears?
Hostinger Operations UAB appears in both the RIPE NCC member directory and ICANN's accredited-registrar directory. Those records identify a company and a formal role. They do not answer the question that matters on a difficult Monday morning: can the business still control…
Global Cloud Services
SiteGround Spain, RIPE Membership and Centralized DNS: Who Controls Website Continuity?
SiteGround Spain SL appears in a public RIPE NCC membership record, while SiteGround documents centralized DNS, hosting, backups and account controls. For a small organization, those records and tools are useful only when it knows who controls the domain, which DNS zone is…
Global Cloud Services
Linode and AS63949: Cloud Convenience Still Needs Operator Discipline
Linode and AS63949: Cloud Convenience Still Needs Operator Discipline 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.…
Global Cloud Services
DreamHost and AS26347: Where Shared-Hosting Reliability Depends on DNS, Backups and Customer Control
DreamHost and AS26347: Where Shared-Hosting Reliability Depends on DNS, Backups and Customer Control intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Aussie Broadband's 2022 IPND failures showed why an emergency database needs a working feedback loop
An emergency database can receive files every day and still drift away from reality if nobody checks what came back. In 2022, Australia's communications regulator found that Aussie Broadband had not supplied or updated required public-number records on time, while an…
Global Cloud Services
Hetzner Online and AS24940: Why Low-Cost Cloud Still Depends on Expensive Operational Discipline
Hetzner Online and AS24940: Why Low-Cost Cloud Still Depends on Expensive Operational Discipline intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Brisanet's AS28126 Is a Public Network Ledger, Not a Map of Every Connection
Brisanet's AS28126 Is a Public Network Ledger, Not a Map of Every Connection 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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Opticomm's delayed service-area notices showed why a broadband build needs a live public handover record
A new fibre network can be physically ready while the public record that says who must serve the area is still behind. Australian regulator ACMA found that Opticomm repeatedly filed required notices late during 2023 and 2024. The case is not evidence that 184 developments lost…
Leaders
Ray Bellis and the DNS Work That Turns Silence into a Usable Answer
The Domain Name System often feels instant. A person enters a name, an application learns an address, and the connection begins. Underneath that small exchange, however, a resolver may choose between UDP and TCP, cross a proxy or firewall, retry after truncation, reuse a…
Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for AI at Scale
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium is trying to turn the data centre’s most familiar network into a complete AI and high-performance-computing fabric—from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link recovery, security and 200 Gb/s lanes. Its…