Netnod News
Stockholm and Oslo - 5 April 2019 – Netnod, the leading provider of interconnection services in the Nordics, and NIX, the Norwegian Internet eXchange, today announced the launch of a new IX VLAN peering service connecting Norway to the rest of the Nordics. The new service, the first of its kind in the region, will provide the Nordics with quicker, cheaper and more effectively managed interconnections than ever before.
Stockholm, Sweden - 3 April 2019 – Netnod, the leading provider of interconnection services in the Nordics, today announced the launch of new services to transform the connectivity landscape in the region. New point-to-point transport and a VLAN solution interconnecting all Netnod Internet Exchanges (IXes) will provide the Nordics with quicker, cheaper and more effectively managed interconnections than ever before.
As one of the twelve operators of the DNS root service for the global Internet, Netnod is expected to adhere to the service expectations expressed by ICANN’s Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC).
Together with industry partners working at the core of the Internet, Netnod has presented two reports to the Swedish government detailing the state of critical infrastructure in Sweden. These reports were presented by Netnod, SUNET, PTS and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) at a meeting held on 6 March at the Swedish Parliament.
To celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March), Netnod has commissioned a series of interviews to be published throughout the week. Discover what some of the leading figures in the industry have to say about the current successes, challenges and what the future holds for women working in the tech industry.
A sophisticated, strong wave of DNS hijackings has been identified affecting the domain names of government, telecommunications and Internet infrastructure providers in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America.
During 2018, Netnod and SUNET have been working on a proof of concept for Project Särimner, a nationwide project focused on ensuring that information distribution in Sweden continues to operate effectively in crisis situations.
Netnod, the leading Internet exchange point in the Nordics, has selected Bulk Infrastructure AS’s data center, the Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX), as the location for a new ‘on-net’ node.
Stockholm, 10 December 2018 - Netnod, the leading Internet exchange in the Nordics, and Conapto, the gateway to the Cloud, today announced a collaboration that extends Netnod’s infrastructure to Conapto’s Stockholm data centres.
On 6 April 2019 the GPS system, used by many organisations for critical infrastructure, will perform a rollover. The rollover is the result of a legacy GPS navigation message which gives a Week Number (WN) as a ten bit parameter. As a result, the WN parameter in the GPS navigation message needs to reset to zero every 1024 weeks.
By the end of H1 2019, Netnod will deploy a new route server platform at the Netnod Stockholm and Copenhagen IXes.
On 2 November 2018 The Swedish Government asked for comments on the Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL discontinuing seasonal changes of time and repealing Directive 2000/84/EC.