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Concerns Grow As AFRINIC’s Funds Are Frozen Over IPv4 Dispute

Kentik

An evolving legal dispute involving AFRINIC, Africa’s regional internet registry, has led to the freezing of the organization’s bank account and concerns about the stability of the continent’s internet operations. How did we get here? What Are the RIRs? Statements of Concern.

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Tonga downed by massive undersea volcanic eruption

Kentik

As of this writing, all internet and telephone communications between Tonga and the rest of the world are still down. Connecting remote island nations with high-speed access to the global internet is one of the great challenges of the modern internet. In a press release, World Bank Group President Robert B.

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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with. People working together About 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic goes over submarine cables.

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

CloudBank started their business writing custom software for private banks running mainframes. They operated as software consultants hired to work side by side with banks, helping them with project implementation and ensuring code best practices. Core banking is where everything starts in the banking business. .

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 1st, 2019

High Scalability

On the other hand, if the question is passwords for the association's bank account, then DON'T DO THIS. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Works great.

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N4N004: Essential Topics in Networking: Ethernet, NAT, and More

Packet Pushers

Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky address a listeners question about foundational topics, covering what a network is, the differences between packet-switched and circuit-switched networks, and the nature of the internet as a “network of networks.” What are the most essential topics to understand for a new networkers?

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News in Networking: ISPs, NFVs, and a SpaceX-based Internet

Kentik

SpaceX also makes our highlights, with news of more than 4,000 internet satellites it plans to launch. . SpaceX details internet satellite plans (CNBC) Beginning in 2019, SpaceX will launch over 4,000 internet satellites. AppDynamics explains logic behind that $3.7 According to CNBC, SpaceX thinks the U.S.