Case Study: Mexico’s AXTEL Outlines Phases of IPv6 Deployment and Recommendations

AXTEL is the second-largest telecommunications operator in Mexico, running its own network in 39 major cities in Mexico and having connectivity to 200 more cities across the country.  They have implemented IPv6 for their business and VPN customers and are currently analyzing how best to roll out IPv6 to their residential customers. In this 2014 case study Read more…

Case Study: How Romania’s RCS&RDS Deployed IPv6

The following IPv6 case study was contributed by Liviu Pislaru from RCS & RDS. RCS & RDS is one of the most important telecom operators in the region, providing telecommunication services in different european countries. In Romania, it is the market leader for broadband and TV services and the only quad-play provider. When it comes Read more…

FIR #758 – 6/2/14 – For Immediate Release

Telegeography’s Submarine Cable Map Now Lets You Link to Specific Cables or Landing Points (Featured Blog)

Want to easily show people where a specific submarine cable goes? Or what cables terminate in a particular location? Last year I wrote about Telegeography’s cool interactive submarine cable map and how useful it is to understand the submarine cable sid…

TDYR #155 – Djibouti – First Impressions And Thoughts

What is it like in Djibouti? WHERE is Djibouti? What am I doing here? In this episode I answer all those questions and talk about what I’ve learned about Djibouti and my first impressions of the day or so that I’ve been here. More info at:
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TDYR #154 – On The Way To Djibouti By Tiny Planes And Huge Planes

TDYR #154 – On The Way To Djibouti By Tiny Planes And Huge Planes by Dan York

FIR #757 – 5/26/14 – For Immediate Release

Betterific and Scott Monty interviews coming; Quick News: the public is mostly okay with content marketing, L’Oreal targets ads based on hair color in online photos, Simon and Schuster creates book line for YouTube stars and gives 10,000 titles to book…

TDYR #153 – I Never Thought I Would Be A Chicken Farmer

TDYR #153 – I Never Thought I Would Be A Chicken Farmer by Dan York

Goodbye, IPv4! IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks

IPv4 address exhaustion just got more real! In an announcement on Tuesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) indicated that they are starting the process of allocating the final available blocks of IPv4 addresses out to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) from the IANA recovered address pool. (ICANN is the operator of Read more…

Webinar TODAY (May 22) – IPv6 and Telecom: IPv4 Is Finally Running Out. Now What?

In about two hours, the free webinar we mentioned last week about IPv6 and telecommunications will be taking place hosted by US Telecom.  I’ll be addressing questions such as: What is the impact of IPv6 on telecommunications and Voice-over-IP (VoIP)? What telecom systems support IPv6? What efforts are underway within organizations like the IETF and Read more…