Tag: Technical Deep Dives

Peeking behind the curtain of running a network service provider.

01 August 2022 / by Marek / Data Centre, MA5, meta, Network Architecture, Fibre + Tech Deep Dives.

Planning Our Manchester Network Migration

We're deep into project planning our Equinix MA2 to MA5 migration and here's how we're going to change our network in Manchester as part of that process.

26 July 2022 / by Marek / BGP, Routing, VyOS, FRR, Fibre, RFOs + Tech Deep Dives.

Triple Whammy of Loss of Wavelength, Routing Control Plane Crash, and IGP Issues

How three faults aligned to cause a significant outage in our UK network on the morning of 25th July 2022.

31 August 2021 / by Marek / Internet, Wholesale Services, Mobile Networks, Tech Deep Dives + Network Automation.

Real-Time IoT/M2M Network Telemetry and Event-Driven Automation

Explaning how to use our industry-leading IoT and M2M telemetry and APIs to build event-driven software-defined networks.

22 August 2021 / by Marek / Internet, Wholesale Services, Tech Deep Dives, Network Automation + fulcrm.

Broadband Network Telemetry over MQTT

We expose live telemetry and control plane APIs via MQTT, easing the path for customers to create their own network automation using our wholesale platform.

19 February 2021 / by Marek / Network Function Virtualisation, Anycast, Routing, Wholesale Services, Tech Deep Dives, Network Automation, Load Balancing, VyOS + Xen.

High Availability L2TP LNS Steering with FreeRADIUS and ExaBGP

The specification, technical design, and implementation details of our L2TP RADIUS tunnel-steering configuration for wholesale XDSL/FTTP services.

03 January 2021 / by Marek / BGP, Routing, Security, VyOS, FRR, Hardware, Halophile Router, RFOs + Tech Deep Dives.

Our Trials and Tribulations with the Intel i40e Series

How a fault with a network driver caused an unexpected router crash on New Year's Eve.

18 April 2020 / by Marek / Routing, Security, BGP, RPKI, VyOS, FRR, Halophile Router, RFOs + Tech Deep Dives.

RPKI and BGP Routing Security

RPKI has suddenly gone viral on social media as Cloudflare launched their "isbgpsafeyet.com" website. But what does it all mean?

10 October 2019 / by Marek / BGP, RPKI, Routing, Security, MikroTik, VyOS, FRR, Tech Deep Dives + Network Automation.

Our Peering and Transit Network Upgrade

Over the last month we have been working hard to upgrade and improve our network. We have performed some maintenance, some upgrades, and overhauled our peering and transit "edge" to improve routing convergence, BGP security, and be ready to grow our capacity.

18 July 2018 / by Marek / NTP, Network Function Virtualisation, MikroTik, Routing, Anycast, Tech Deep Dives, Hosting + Load Balancing.

The Time in China

Using anycast to prop up the capacity of the NTP Pool Project .cn Zone.

12 May 2017 / by Marek / Networks, Network Architecture, Load Balancing + Tech Deep Dives.

When LAGs Go Bad: Network Aggravation

Link aggregation is a cost-effective way to increase bandwidth. But there can be pitfalls which are difficult to debug should problems strike.

26 June 2015 / by Marek / Security, Systems Administration, Linux, Malware, Distributed Denial of Service Attack + Tech Deep Dives.

Anatomy of a WordPress Hack

In which Faelix performs some forensics on a customer's infected WordPress website.