ISPs in Africa must catch tech’s next wave
There is a belief that a shared environment, between fixed line and mobile, will be the most likely scenario going forward. There is a big push behind rich media application and integration, including...
View ArticleDurban Internet exchange goes live
The Durban Internet Exchange (Dinx), located at data centre operator Teraco’s Riverhorse Valley facility, joins the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (Cinx) as...
View ArticleProtecting the Open Internet at the ITU: Civil Society Takes Action
Advocates around the world are organizing to work against potential threats that such a change could bring to Internet openness. Advocates and experts believe that citizens can have an impact by urging...
View ArticleEurope officially runs out of IPv4 addresses
Earlier today, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) announced it is down to its last “/8″ worth of IPv4 addresses. Read More
View ArticleScramble for IPv6 begins as Europe depletes IPv4 URLs
RIPE’s exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses means that moving forward, “each LIR (Local Internet Registry) can receive only one /22 (1,024 IPv4 addresses) upon application for IPv4 resources,” Read More
View ArticleYou don’t need a whole IPv4 address to yourself, right?
Facing the shortage of IPv4 addresses, and glacial adoption of IPv6, UK ISP PlusNet is looking for volunteers among its customers to test out sharing the IPv4 addresses on its network. The technique...
View ArticleCritical shift in focus to IPv6 adoption
Local awareness and adoption of IPv6 – the ‘next generation’ Internet addressing schema – appears to be maturing, with a recent survey by the IPv6 Task Force indicating an increase in the number of New...
View ArticleITU Plenipot 2014: How the U.S. plans to avoid a U.N. vote on the future of...
Washington Post: The latest battle over who should run the Internet will be waged in the South Korean port city of Busan over the next three weeks. For U.S. officials headed to the United Nation’s...
View ArticleITU Plenipotentiary Conference elects China’s Houlin Zhao as next...
Busan, 23 October 2014 – ITU’s 19th Plenipotentiary Conference roundly endorsed Houlin Zhao of China as its next Secretary-General. Zhao will take office on 1 January 2015 for a term of four years,...
View ArticleData losses costs South African businesses over R3bn according to EMC
Johannesburg – Data loss costs South African businesses over R3bn according to technology storage and hardware solutions firm EMC. Data loss involves computer information being destroyed by the likes...
View ArticleNorth America’s ARIN Officially Reaches IPv4 Addresses Depletion
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool, this effectively means that the ARIN no longer holds any IPv4 addresses. Due to depletion of its...
View ArticleIPv6 celebrates turning 20 with a 10% deployment milestone
IPv6 is 20 years old and the milestone has been celebrated with 10 percent adoption across the world for the first time. The idea that IPv6 remains so far behind its saturated incumbent, IPv4, is...
View ArticleIPv6 Deployment Grows by 3000% in 5 Years
IPv6 deployment is increasing around the world, with over 9 million domain names and 23% of all networks advertising IPv6 connectivity. IPv6 deployment of increased by 3,000% since the beginning of...
View ArticleAt the 6th anniversary, IPv4 still dominates IPv6
IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol (IP) address standard intended to supplement and eventually replace IPv4, the protocol many Internet services still use today. It was launched 6 years ago,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Backtracks on Move to IPv6 Only Internal Wireless Network
Microsoft backtracked on its plan to migrate its internal wireless guest network to IPv6-only. Veronika McKillop, Network Architect at Microsoft, in a post on Monday says: Unfortunately, we had to stop...
View ArticleUS DOJ is suing California for its new stringent net neutrality law
The US state of California has passed a law that would be the strictest net neutrality protections in the country, and could serve as a blueprint for other states. Under the law, internet service...
View Article5G cybersecurity concerns and physical challenges: What you need to know
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View ArticleEurope is just fresh out of its IPV4 address reserves, Hello IPv6?
RIPE, The organisation that allocates new IP addresses across in Europe, the Middle East and parts of central Asia has announced that it has exhausted its IPv4 addresses. “We have now run out of IPv4...
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