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27.02.13 by Leslie Daigle
Topics: Tech Matters
I've had the pleasure of attending the APRICOT 2013 conference  in Singapore this week.  As always, it has featured an interesting technical agenda -- part emerging standards and technologies, and part operator experience discussions.  Many of the faces are familiar -- the technology developers show up in different parts of the world to talk through recent IETF working group items, etc.   And,...
22.02.13 by Andrei Robachevsky
Topics: Tech Matters
  I just finished reading a recently published "Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report" by Arbor Networks. It is the eighth one in the series of annual reports produced by the company. Much of the report is based on a survey of 130 respondents from a mixture of Tier 1, Tier 2/3, enterprise, and other types of network operators from all around the world. The survey shows some interesting trends...
22.02.13 by Mat Ford
Topics: Tech Matters
Internet engineers have a simple shorthand way to describe graphs relating to aspects of the Internet's evolution - they go up and to the right. Growth, often exponential growth, is a feature of so much of the technological change that makes up the Internet, and that is driven by the Internet, that we can be fooled into taking it for granted. In that light, Akamai's latest State of the Internet...
21.02.13 by Leslie Daigle
Topics: Tech Matters
  Do you have a published work? Are you a creative artist finding your audience? Have you ever seen your blog posts or posted photos in that light? If so, you probably are published, and more creative than you give yourself credit for! But, have you been surprised when your work appeared on someone else's website or Facebook page? Did you feel your rights had somehow been transgressed? Or were...
12.02.13 by Robin Wilton
Topics: Tech Matters
  If someone took your money and gave you nothing in return, you'd think you were being hard done by... right? If someone gave you something, didn't mention charging for it, but then debited your bank account anyway, you'd think something was wrong... right? But in the information economy, personal data is currency. Somehow, it has become standard practice to give you something 'free', but '...

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