networking

“I have been planning cloud computing systems recently, and had many long discussions with different teams. I have prepared the following diagram to show the perceptual difference between how each team perceives the data centre.”

“DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) plans, builds and operates advanced networks for research and education. It is owned by European NRENs (national research and education networks), and works in partnership with them and in cooperation with the more...

Zigtag is a new bookmarking service that is currently in private beta (you can sign up for a invite though). Zigtag utilizes a sidebar for tagging and sharing.

"I know exactly what Facebook and other social networking sites are."

Harkleroad was told four times by Sprint reps that they had to pay over $950 per line in local loop costs—but it turns out local company Frontier Communications says they only get around $250 per connection from Sprint. So where more...

As a core transfer mechanism within DOT, we have created Similarity-Enhanced Transfer. SET is a multi-source download system that can retrieve pieces of a target file both from identical sources (e.g., mirrors of the file) as well as similar sources more...

At a meeting this week, the Internet Engineering Task Force decided to kill IPv4 connectivity for conference attendees. Ars was there for the experiment, which was a success in part due to Google.