Next Wednesday (January 25) at 14h, Rob Shakir from Google will stop by Ecole Polytechnique to give a master class on some of the latest and greatest advances in (enterprise-grade) Networking. Robs career has taken him through national network operators,…
Some weeks ago, I was cockily boasting about 45% of the visits to my website were over IPv6, and nudged the last 54% to join us here in the 21th century. Then came Christmas, and the world (myself included) was…
Ecole Polytechnique is, with our colleagues from Telecom-ParisTech, offering the international, English-language, Research-Masters program in “Advanced Communication Networks” – among friends, simply called “ACN”. The ACN program aims high: to train future technology visionaries, engineers and leaders – in other…
Jean-Louis Rougier, otherwise from Telecom-ParisTech, walking Polytechnique and Master-ACN (M1) students through MPLS details and demonstrating how to conducting a rigorous RFC5218 analysis.
Back in late October, Mark Townsley and I had a conversation which went something like this: Mark: “I can’t believe it’s only November, given how much has already happened since the summer vacation…” Me: “And I can’t believe its already…
Multi-Homed, Multi-Hop, Wireless Transport The predominant transport protocol on the Internet – TCP – was conceived in 1981 and is used, essentially, unchanged today. However the Internet in 30+ years later is very different: packet losses are not exclusively due…
Light, Efficient Multicast with B.I.E.R. B.I.E.R. (Bit-Indexed Explicit Replication) is a multicast mechanism wherein the source of the multicast data packet (i.e. the ingress router which injects the multicast data packet into a B.I.E.R. domain) explicitly identifies and indicates (by…
LPWAN – Low-Power Wide Area Networks LPWAN is a family of wireless infrastructure technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT), with the goal of “being to the IoT as WiFi was to home networking” – and specifically designed for deployments…
I posted yesterday how 45% of the visitors to my website access it over IPv6, according to the WWW server logs. I thought that it was time to gently nudge the remaining 54%, and set up a nice little widget – come on…