Last month’s Internet shutdown in Sudan is the latest of a growing number of incidents where conflict compromises Internet connectivity and resilience in affected regions. In 2023, the International Institute for Strategic Studies Armed Conflict Survey recorded more than 180 regional and local conflicts, the highest number in 30 years. Access to the Internet during war and […]
In the second half of 2023 five more countries have joined the ranks of those with secured country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and security keys deployed in the DNS root zone. Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates […]
Some time ago, I wrote here about what we could learn from an analysis of data from Qrator Labs related to the diversity of cross-border Internet connectivity for countries worldwide. As a network of networks, the Internet can be characterized as a set of dependencies between networks. Dependencies for both connectivity and customers. An outage at any specific network […]
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In the second quarter of 2023 two more countries have joined the ranks of those with secured country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and security keys deployed in the DNS root zone. Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates […]
Spanish Internet provider Telefónica recently announced it has completed the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for all Movistar and O2 mobile network customers in Spain. Rolling out the technology upgrade started in November 2022. The Spanish network operator also claimed it will deploy IPv6 to all fixed broadband connections by the end of […]