In today’s connectivity landscape, flexibility, scalability and increased capacity are key. In this blogpost, Christian Lindholm, Head of Sales and Marketing & Senior Product Manager at Netnod, examines the latest technology used to interconnect data centres. He looks at the opportunities opened up by this technology and the variety of industry segments who benefit.
A lot of the Internet’s most important security tools are dependent on accurate time. In this blogpost, MC Widerkrantz explains why the time you are getting might not be as secure as you think and how recent developments in Network Time Security can help.
Time and frequency synchronisation have always been important for mobile networks. But with the rollout of 5G, high precision time synchronisation within microseconds will be required.
Whether you will be taking your holiday reading on a sun lounger, a beach or a plane, we hope you enjoy this selection of Netnod articles from the first half of the year.
Over the last few years many web based services have not responded when users wanted to access them. This is, of course, bad for any service, but especially so for services which are supposed to serve information specifically when there is a crisis. The number of such incidents have increased and, as a result, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) asked the Swedish Research Council to look into the situation.
Providing traceable time to the highest levels of accuracy is essential for industries ranging from telecommunications and the energy sector to financial and trading services. Precision Time Protocol (PTP) services provide traceable time over a dedicated fibre which enables organisations to time stamp to the highest degree of accuracy.
Netnod’s new VLAN service will make your port more powerful. If you have a port at one Netnod IX, our new VLAN service will connect you to any other Netnod IX and enable you to start peering immediately. With no extra cross-connection or equipment needed, you will be able to peer throughout the region at a fraction of the previous cost.
Netnod will launch a new route server platform at the Netnod IX Stockholm and Copenhagen by the end of H1 2019. The new platform will have some significant new features including a looking glass, support for RPKI and all standard BGP communities enabled. In this post, we look at the new features, what customers should do to prepare and the technology used on the new platform.