4sysops

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet | PetaPixel Cloudflare has launched a one-click Content Credentials system aimed at improving image authenticity on the internet, with the goal of maintaining accurate creator attribution.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. Famous internet outages. Uganda election shutdown.

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CloudFaire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In regions where Christmas is deeply rooted, Internet traffic dips significantly during Christmas Eve dinners, midnight masses, morning gift exchanges, and Christmas Day lunches, a pattern evident in both our previous and current analyses. In descending order, these days were: December 25, December 24, January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2024.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2024, Thanksgiving (November 28), Black Friday (November 29), and Cyber Monday (December 2) significantly impacted Internet traffic, similar to trends seen in 2023 and previous years. In 2024, Cyber Monday was again the busiest day for global Internet traffic. In contrast, Black Friday and Cyber Monday drove traffic spikes.

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Dataversity

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The internet, social media, […]. The 21st century has been characterized by the astounding amount of data we’ve gained access to. But what happens if this data isn’t properly stored? A data swamp begins to develop, and accessing that data becomes difficult and sometimes impossible.

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CloudFaire

MARCH 10, 2025

Key takeaways: ChatGPT maintains the top spot: OpenAIs ChatGPT remains #1 in Generative AI popularity, hovering around the top 50 Internet domains overall, up from #200 in late 2023. There, we now show the top 100 overall Internet services ranking next to a top 100 domains list. AI Chatbot 31% AI Search 9.4% AI Code Assistant 6.8%

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Global Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Should big tech get their hands out of their pockets and look to contribute toward their data-hungry internet services? Deutsche Telekom took legal action against the social media giant for non-payment with the carrier winning its case. Telcos have been dissatisfied that they are paying for big techs’ lunch.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. billion users in what can arguably be considered the most impactful internet service outage in modern history. The “Path View” in Kentik Synthetics can run continuous traceroutes to a target internet resource.

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CloudFaire

MARCH 18, 2025

Bots get a dedicated page As a reminder, bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic, and monitoring bot levels can help spot potential malicious activities. Of course, bots can be helpful too, and Cloudflare maintains a list of verified bots to help keep the Internet healthy.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 3, 2023

We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. For more security tips, visit our Newsroom.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of metrics. Key Findings Traffic Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% Google maintained its position as the most popular Internet service overall.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2021

While it is impossible to predict exactly how and when we’ll come out of the pandemic, we believe that there are going to be some lasting changes to how companies in the internet and cloud space operate heading in the future. The pandemic isn’t the only source of challenges for the internet cloud space. Conclusion.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We are working toward making Threads compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe can shape the future of the internet – where peoples’ content exists in the fediverse and is platform-agnostic. But you can’t do that today on social media. But Threads is still evolving.

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Kentik

JUNE 8, 2021

EdgeUno was founded with a central focus: to improve the availability and quality of internet services in countries with emerging economies. With 20 PoPs and more than 2,500 internetwork connections, if you stream content or look at social media in Latin America today, you’re probably using the EdgeUno network.

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Kentik

MARCH 20, 2017

The main point I made that’s relevant to this blog post is that the Internet is a critical piece of the delivery path for digital business. Digital Business Brings Internet Reliance. While it might seem obvious by now, pretty much every business of any appreciable size today sees the Internet as important. Internet down?

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CloudFaire

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ingesting a broadcast Broadcasters generate content in real time, as a series of video and audio frames, and it needs to be transmitted to Cloudflare over the Internet. When the media content arrives at the Cloudflare server servicing the connection, it is first handled by a Spectrum application. Lets start on the ingest side.

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CATO Networks

MAY 21, 2018

Todays business lives and depends on the Internet. More and more companies rely on the Internet for voice and video. The public Internet, though, is a challenging environment to deliver business-quality real-time services. The public Internet reorganizes to solve issues without regard for the impact on applications.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We make it very easy to generate marketing and social media videos,, so businesses can promote their brand and expand their online presence as much as they want or need to. As businesses moved from traditional, face-to-face channels to the internet we reaped the benefits with a huge lift in acquisition. Its ease of use and simplicity.

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Kentik

AUGUST 25, 2017

And Wired put together an interactive map to show where internet trolls live. Akamai’s latest 2017 State of the Internet Report went live this week. How Google is Speeding Up the Internet (NetworkWorld). TCP/IP is the internet’s main protocol for data transmission. Where Do Internet Trolls Live?

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As January approaches and the year comes to a close, distinct changes in global Internet usage emerge. With Cloudflares global reach, we observe planet-wide and local Internet habits during the holiday season.

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Global Data

DECEMBER 11, 2024

There are concerns that while these developments will improve internet access, greater control by governments is needed to regulate and to protect the critical infrastructure ecosystem. The role of hyperscalers has changed as their investment in subsea cables has almost tripled over the last seven years.

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Kentik

MAY 24, 2017

Meanwhile, researchers are pushing for a way for first responders to have faster internet access during emergency situations. Team Creates High-Speed Internet Lane for Emergency Situations (Phys.org) Emergency situations and natural disasters can disrupt networks with huge spikes of traffic. billion by 2021. .

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Kentik

JULY 28, 2017

A feature story explored the workarounds that Cubans go to for internet access, and another feature looked at the cost of IT automation. Viacom Out of the Running for Scripps Networks (Wall Street Journal) Media conglomerate Viacom has bowed out of the bidding to buy Scripps Networks Interactive.

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Rule 11

AUGUST 16, 2024

Beware of Internet FORCES aiming to change your mind or direct your decisions! Enter your name into an internet search engine and the first few results will probably include detailed profiles of you compiled by people-search websites with names like Intelius, PeopleFinders, and Spokeo.

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4sysops

JANUARY 13, 2025

Ubuntu VideoLAN is developing a real-time AI subtitle generation feature for its popular open-source media player, VLC. This advancement was showcased during CES 2025, highlighting that the feature operates without requiring an internet connection. VLC Developers Working on AI-Powered Real-Time Subtitles – OMG!

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These solutions rely on the Internet, MPLS, or some other third-party network for connecting locations. The way the SD-WAN architecture manages failover from one IP path to another also impacts overall media quality. Media Quality From a real-time packet handling capability, all of the SD-WAN architectures have similar capabilities.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.

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Kentik

AUGUST 22, 2017

Analyzing the Eclipse’s Impact on Internet Traffic. As our fellow citizens ventured outside to watch the sun take second place, were enough of them off of the Internet to create a true digital eclipse? Graphing Internet Traffic. As many as 7.4 Millions more may have stayed in town but headed outside to see what they could see.

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SysAdmin1138 Explains

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I'm seeing more and more folk post, "we got out of IE, we can get out of Chrome," on social media, referencing the nigh-monopoly Chrome has on the browsing experience. Getting off of Chrome The circumstances that drove the world off of Internet Explorer aren't there for Chrome. Google doesn't always win.

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Akins IT

MAY 25, 2017

Were proud that we make the internet a safer and more secure place for our clients and friends. 2 Dont post sensitive personal details on your social media It might be tempting to share lots of information about your life on social media. One tool to check your password strength is Password Monster.

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Kentik

JANUARY 24, 2022

Perhaps you want to know if the traffic you are investigating is related to video streaming, voice or social media. Looking at NetFlow, IPFIX (Internet Protocol Flow Information Export), or even sFlow (a standardized protocol similar to NetFlow) records today, you will find that most everything runs on port 80 or 443.

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Kentik

AUGUST 22, 2016

The rise of the MP3 marked a transitional phase in which media players covered the dual roles of audio player and portable file storage. Now, from a music point of view, the smartphone or streaming media player is essentially just a network-connected audio converter. From CDs to CDNs.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For 25 years, Elliot has been the CEO of Tucows, the internet services company with the second-largest domain registrar in the world. Since the shareware days, the company has become expert providers in domain names, network solutions, fiber internet service, mobile virtual network operations and SaaS. The culture of Tucows.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2020

gaming, videoconferencing, streaming, and social media), as well as looking into traffic trends for other domestic and international locations. Can the Internet Handle More Traffic? At the current network traffic levels we’re observing, the internet overall is performing well.

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Rule 11

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Being at the core of the Internet places the DNS under a lot of pressure. New forms of DNS abuse emerge each year, disputes over domain names persist, and all the while, the Internet just keeps getting bigger. The censorship war has hit a flashpoint.

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Software Architecture Zen

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In particular, I am hugely concerned about how social media (especially X, Facebook and Google) is playing out and where technologies like AI, blockchain and the Internet of Things are taking us. Technorealism was introduced by Douglas Rushkoff and Andrew Shapiro in the early 1990s.

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