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Certification Internet service via iPerf3

Network Engineering

We are an ISP providing internet services to customers using multivendor CPEs (Fortirouter, Juniper, Cisco) installed onsite. Attached is a topology diagram illustrating the proposed setup. These CPEs connect over a fiber-optic last-mile to the nearest Provider Edge (PE), where the gateway is configured.

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What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?

Kentik

Will it also end a period of development of the domestic internet in Afghanistan? Growth of Afghan domestic internet. The fragmented nature of the country’s internet, driven by its austere mountainous geography, meant that shutting down service in Afghanistan would require more than a single kill switch. As the last U.S.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

What changed Over the last 15 years, though, the quality of the public internet has improved significantly. Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. Yes, of course, I’m oversimplifying here.

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Internet Underlay Visibility is Critical for SD-WAN Overlays

Kentik

SD-WANs are the confluence of four technology trends: software-defined networking in wide area networks (WANs), commodity hardware for customer premise equipment, Internet connectivity for business applications, and enterprise IT hybrid multi-cloud migration. The benefits of SD-WANs are compelling both economically and operationally.

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When does accepting a more-specific prefix for the IXP LAN cause a black hole for connectivity to the IXP LAN?

Network Engineering

Let's say, that there is a following network topology: As seen on the drawing, the router named as30-r1 is connected to IXP LAN with network 10.81.80.0/22 24 table default Routing table: default.inet Internet: Destination Type RtRef Next hop Type Index NhRef Netif 10.81.83.0/24 22 while receiving and accepting 10.81.83.0/24

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Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Kentik

Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera). Next, point your browser to www.speedtest.net and run the test from at least two computers sharing the same internet connection. When troubleshooting SaaS connections, we want to make sure we’re staying consistent especially since internet traffic is bursty in nature.

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Package Tracking for the Internet

Kentik

But believe it or not, many of these services have been operating for 25 years now — since the advent of the commercial Internet — without the IP equivalent of package tracking. We can’t yet see where (geographically or topologically) the traffic from XYZ is entering the network, and we also can’t see where it egresses to the next hop.