Continuing our series celebrating Netnod’s 25 years at the core of the Internet, in this post we focus on the Netnod Internet Exchange (IX). We talk to those who have been involved with Netnod over the years, look at some of the early IX challenges and technology, and hear some stories from the early days at the core of the Internet.
The root name servers are a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure. Identified by letters A through M, they provide the entry points to the Domain Name System (DNS). Since 2000, Netnod has operated i.root-servers.net, the first root server to be located outside of the United States. In this blogpost, Netnod’s Lars-Johan Liman takes us through the 30 year history of the I-root server with a focus on some of the early challenges.
Initially developed by CERN, White Rabbit is at the cutting edge of high accuracy time systems. To find out more about how it works and why such high accuracy is important, I talked with Ragge Sundblad, who has been working on the preliminary study of White Rabbit at Netnod.
In this blogpost Leo Bernava, Global Interconnection Relations Manager at Netnod, looks at the rise of the gaming industry and the technology making gaming one of the fastest growing industry sectors in the world.
Patrik Fältström, Technical Director and Head of Security at Netnod, recently sat down with Leslie Daigle, Global Technical Officer, Global Cyber Alliance, and co-host of the Techsequences podcast. They discussed the future of the open Internet, the importance of collaboration between competitors and the increasing tendency toward silo-based business models. This blogpost is based on their discussion.
The Internet industry continues to see exponential traffic growth with technologies enabling increased bandwidth and high performance continually dropping in price. With these drivers, we are seeing more and more networks preparing the move to 100G connections. In this blogpost, Kaj Kellgren, Senior Network Architect at Netnod, takes us through some of the key issues in this transition.
Since 2000, Netnod has operated i.root-servers.net, one of the Internet’s 13 root name servers and the first to be located outside of the United States. The root name servers, identified by letters A through M, provide the entry points to the Domain Name System (DNS) and are a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure. In this Q&A, Netnod’s Lars-Johan Liman explains how Netnod meets the challenges of operating such a crucial part of the Internet’s infrastructure.
Internet exchanges have grown far beyond a single, standalone switch across which ISPs could exchange traffic. Modern Internet Exchange (IX) infrastructure enables many types of networks to connect from multiple points of presence and seamlessly exchange traffic. Today, Content Delivery Networks, ISPs, hosting providers, cloud operators and Enterprise networks all benefit from exchanging traffic at an IX.
A lot of the Internet’s most important security tools are dependent on accurate time. But until recently there was no way to ensure that the time you were getting came from a trusted source. The new Network Time Security (NTS) standard has been designed to fix that. In this post, we will summarise the most important NTS developments and link to a range of recent Netnod articles providing more information on the background, the NTS standard and the latest implementations.
