Geoff Huston, APNIC’s Chief Scientist, breaks down how TCP and BBR work to show the advantages and disadvantages of both.Highlighting that BBR wins because its stamps all over Cubic. Survival of the fittest means that legacy OS with old TCP flow control will be worse off and die quicker. Which is nice.
Source: A short history of TCP vs BBR – Video – Packet Pushers
Open standards for radio networks 🤔 … ‘3 steps forward, and less than ⅛ back’ 📶
Your wireless carrier is usually beholden to using proprietary cellular network tech from the likes of Ericsson or Nokia, but there may soon be a more universal technology that could benefit your bank account. Vodafone has started the first European tests (specifically, the UK) for OpenRAN, an Intel co-developed open access radio system that harmonizes hardware and software in cellular infrastructure. It doesn’t sound exciting, but it effectively opens the door to lower-cost cell networks — and that, in turn, could lower the costs of your calls and data.
Source: Vodafone tests open cellular radio tech that could lower call costs
You are pretty new to cloud storage, are you not?
As Internet traffic has increased and databases have become more outdated, the importance of routing validation has increased
Starting January 1, 2020, Belarusian ISPs will have to enable IPv6 support for all customer connections.
Source: Belarus becomes first country to make IPv6 mandatory for ISPs | ZDNet
