For the majority of people in developed countries, the Internet is invisible most of the time. A socket in the wall, a cell site atop a building, a WiFi password written on a restaurant menu – only rarely are we reminded of the fact that Internet connectivity is not just there like a natural resource. It has become ambient. But for some people there is another side to it. This is a text about the networkers who make the Internet work.
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There are many resources to turn to in order to learn about Internet peering. But when it comes to de-peering, networkers are mostly left with their gut feeling. This is an article about the Dos and Don'ts of dissolving peering relationships.
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As of today, networkers have interconnected more than 55,000 Autonomous Systems. To find out about about the coordinative efforts that lie behind this achievement, we need to look at the uncertainties that networkers overcome in their day to day practices.
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One of the internet’s key features is that it keeps networking functions separate from the applications and services that use these functions. However, network operators and especially internet service providers appear to be becoming more content aware. Networking is becoming more intertwined with content. This might have implications for tomorrow’s internet.
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Since the commercial Internet began in 1995 network operators have explored ways to make internet interconnection work as a market. Yet, a central prerequisite of this market is still ambiguous: the object of exchange.
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Manfred Kloiber from German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk has interviewed me about the internet interconnection survey, which has been published recently. In this interview we speak about the kinds of regulation that networkers have encountered, about which of them they feel most strongly and about what increasing regulation means for the sector. The audio is available here (in German).
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