Future Thinking: what3words on IP Addresses for the “Real” World
Last year, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. In July 2018, we interviewed Giles Rhys Jones to hear his perspective on the forces shaping the Internet.
Giles Rhys Jones is the chief marketing officer at what3words, which has developed an algorithm to convert complex GPS coordinates into unique and memorable three-word addresses; thus becoming the geographical equivalent of an IP address. In doing so, the company is helping to provide addresses to the more than 75% of the world, which still suffers from poor or non-existent addressing, meaning they struggle to open bank accounts, register births, or access basic services like water and electricity. By better or more simply mapping locations, W3W supports social mobility, growth, and development.
The Internet Society: W3W has divided the world into a grid of three-by-three meters and has assigned each square a unique three-word, rather than numbered, address. Where would the Internet Society’s address in Reston, Virginia be if we were to adopt the W3W system?
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Short Take – Education Is Useless?
Are certification and education useless in a culture of freely available knowledge? Russ White shares his thoughts on the topic and and provides some suggestions on how you should approach education in general.
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AI in Business: Getting Started
Artificial intelligence technologies are within the reach of every business. Here's how to start taking advantage of them.
The death of a TLD
The death of a TLD
Another one bites the dust. The gTLD gold rush is now seeing a steady flow of TLD’s that clearly just didnt work out.
In the last week, ICANN removed the documentation
xRAN Forum Releases More Specs to Make Interoperable RAN Possible
The xRAN Forum is in the process of becoming part of the O-RAN Alliance. The merger was announced last February but is taking a long time to be formalized.
We’ve Added a Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge Technology Course To Our Library!
This course is taught by Esteban Herrera and is 3hours and 28 minutes long. You can view the course here if you’re an All Access Pass member.
About The Course:
The Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) certification is currently one of the most important cloud computing certifications you can get. The Cloud Security Knowledge Certification addresses core security concepts in cloud computing such as governance and enterprise risk management, compliance and audit management, infrastructure, virtualization & containers, data security & encryption, and much more. This course will be based on the documentation provided by Cloud Security Alliance.
Q2 FY 18 Product Releases, for a better Internet “end-to-end”
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In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from the “perimeter” back to the “host.”
On the client side, Cloudflare’s Mobile SDK extends control directly into your mobile apps, providing visibility into application performance and load times across any global carrier network.
On the host side, Cloudflare Workers lets companies move workloads from their host to the Cloudflare Network, reducing infrastructure costs and speeding up the user experience. Argo Tunnel lets you securely connect your host directly to a Cloudflare data center. If your host infrastructure is running other TCP services besides HTTP(S), you can now protect it with Cloudflare’s DDoS protection using Spectrum.
So for end-to-end control that is easy and fast to deploy, these recent products are all incredible “workers” across the “spectrum” of your needs.
But there’s more to the story
End users want richer experiences, such as more video, interactivity, and images. Meeting those needs can incur real costs in bandwidth, hardware, and time. Cloudflare addresses these with Continue reading
5G, Broadband to Drive $75B Optical Transport Spend, Dell’Oro Says
Most of that 5-year growth will come from an increased use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to support the extension of higher network speeds closer to end users.
Nation-States, Criminals Increasing Attacks on ERP Systems, DHS Warns
Threat researchers found a rise in attacks on widely-used enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications such as SAP and Oracle, which currently have a combined 9,000 known security vulnerabilities.
Former Equinix Exec Ihab Tarazi Emerges at Packet With a Plan for the Edge
Tazari looks to build on Packet's bare metal cloud model, launching a working edge platform by 2019, and improving on its hardware and software offerings.
Voyager and the speed of whitebox development
We are thrilled to announce that, with the Cumulus Linux 3.6.2 release, the Facebook Voyager packet-optical device is now generally available. That’s certainly an exciting development as the industry’s first packet-optical whitebox, but I actually wanted to discuss something else: how we were able to get support for the device up and running so quickly and what that means for Cumulus Linux. There’s a large number of devices that we support, which are listed on our Hardware Compatibility List. Those devices, however, are all “normal” Ethernet devices. Usually we can get those to market rapidly, but Voyager was more complicated.
First, as you may know, Facebook Voyager is a device with a Broadcom Tomahawk chip supporting 12 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports as well as an additional 4 200 Gigabit DWDM ports supported from 2 Acacia AC400 modules (for more details on the underlying specifics, see the Voyager Tech Docs). I mention the chipset explicitly as that’s one of the most critical – and time-consuming – components to support as we port to a new device. In this case, of course, we already supported the Tomahawk, so that was an immediate “leg up” on the work.
Those Continue reading
Nokia Stock Sags on Q2 Results, Market Share Concerns at Verizon
Company CEO Rajeev Suri brushed aside market share concerns at the telecom giant but did admit to losing contracts in a “small number” of Verizon markets.
Internet Drone and Balloon Projects Move Forward
Two innovative ideas to bring Internet access to hard-to-serve areas of the world – using drones and high-altitude balloons – seem to be progressing, even though the two companies pushing the projects aren’t offering a lot of details.
Facebook’s Aquila, using solar-powered drones as wireless Internet relays, and Google sister company X’s Project Loon, using large hot-air balloons in a similar way, both received significant attention when announced earlier in the decade.
In recent years, both projects have plugged along, even as some critics have doubted their long-term viability. While the projects have garnered less attention in recent years, Facebook launched test flights of an Aquila drone in June 2016 and May 2017.
Recent weeks have brought new updates about both initiatives, although the companies still aren’t talking much.
On June 27, Facebook announced it will stop building its own drones. While some early news reports suggested that Facebook was shutting down its drone-based Internet initiative, the company emphasized that it would instead depend on other companies to build aircraft.
“Going forward, we’ll continue to work with partners like Airbus on [high-altitude] connectivity generally, and on the other technologies needed to make this system work, like flight control computers and Continue reading
Tenable Could Raise $288M, Making It Largest Security IPO in 5 Years
While it’s not the first security firm to go public this year — Zscaler and Carbon Black also completed successful IPOs — at $288 million it would be the most profitable.