Category Archives: Peering

Are we running out of AS numbers ?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Thorleif Wiik

Regarding a presentation of RIPE, we will run out of AS Numbers sometime between late 2010 and early 2013. The allocation rate is currently about 10-12 ASN/day. Therefore, 32bit ASN (ASN32) will be introduced. The transition phase started on 1/1/2007. … Continue reading →

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speedtest.net

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Thorleif Wiik

Speedtest.net is a free broadband speed test with servers located all over the world. You can compare your results with others and easily share them. Currently I have the Versatel Flatrater 20000 ADSL2 product and this is my result:

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BCIX Traffic on Pixelpark AS33811 Gigabit Port

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

While BCIX is migrating all peering members on the new Foundry Networks BigIron Plattfom, traffic is growing on our Gigabit Ethernet Port. Peak Peering Traffic (no Upstream traffic included) is now about 400Mbit/s…

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Barcamp Berlin Netzwerk Traffic

Posted on September 30, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

So, die das erste Peak in der Auslastung der Internet Anbindung ist ca. 7 Mbit/s, werde jetzt mal schauen, ob alle mit der WPA Verschlüsselung fürs WLAN klarkommen.

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Business Hosting in Berlin (I)

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

Der Markt der Hosting-, Rechenzentrums- und Colocationsanbieter ist unüberschaubar. Eine Unzahl von Anbietern, größtenteils spezialisiert auf Privatkunden tummeln sich am Markt. Neben den großen wie 1&1 oder Strato tummeln sich hunderte von Firmen am Markt. Viele davon sind so genannte … Continue reading →

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Coolthreads

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

Today, we installed a couple of new Sun Server in one of our datacenters. On the picture, you can see one Sun T2000 and three Sun X4200.

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Versatel 20 Mbit/s DSL mit DSL flatrater 20000

Posted on May 3, 2006 by Administrator

Versatel bietet jetzt durchaus attraktiv das ADSL2+ Produkt DSL flatrater 20000 mit 20Mbit/s Downstream, 600 kbit/s Upstram, fastpath plus, ISDN und Telefon-Flatrate für 49,98 Euro monatlich bei 24 Monaten Mindestvertragslaufzeit an. Leider können Bestandkunden mit der Vertragsoption NoLimit im Gegensatz … Continue reading →

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A technical review of Level (3)’s Depeering of Cogent

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Administrator

Just new, a presentation about Level(3)s depeering to Cogent from Alin Popescu and Todd Underwood, Renesys.

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Level(3) cuts Peering to Cogent

Posted on October 6, 2005 by Administrator

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Versatel 6Mbit/s DSL

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Thorleif Wiik

Today, I got my update from 4 Mbit/s to 6 Mbit/s DSL at home from Versatel. The problem is, that the download speed didn’t change. Talking to Versatel Hotline, they recommended me to change inhouse copper cabeling. Try this within … Continue reading →

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