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Internet protocols are changing
Guest Post: Learn about the significant recent changes being made to the core Internet protocols.
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Google Hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
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Just one QUIC bit
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
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Why is the Internet so Slow?
Guest Post: What's the source of latency on the Internet, and how can it be reduced?
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Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
Guest Post: How to easily enable IPv6 support for apps without it.
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Submarine cable resilience
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.
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All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?
Guest Post: A new study measures 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses to provide a glimpse of what IPv4 usage activity looks like.
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Stop using low DNS TTLs (2019)
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
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Do we really need a new BGP?
Guest post: BGP gets a bad rap from some but maybe the problem is with people not the protocol.
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IP Addressing in 2021
What can IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2021 tell us about the changing nature of the network?
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Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.