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Meetings and Conferences

RIPE 89

Introduction The last Monday in October saw my alarm set for 02:45 in order to catch a 05:55 flight from Manchester Airport to head to Prague for RIPE 89. There are a number of reasons I participate in RIPE meetings. First of all, the RIPE community sets the policies by which Jisc, and other service […]

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100Gbps of CERN data over IPv6 on the Janet network

Today, 6th June 2022, marks the tenth anniversary of the World IPv6 Launch, an event that saw many ISPs and content providers turn on IPv6 access to their services for the first time. In this article, we reflect on an IPv6 use case that’s now seeing 100Gbps of IPv6 traffic traversing Janet. The Large Hadron […]

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#Technology & Innovation

Hic sunt dracones

One of the questions that we get asked in the Network Development and Architecture team is “when are you going to deploy ‘thing they read about in the tech news’?” and the answer usually falls squarely into one of three distinct categories:

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#Technology & Innovation

IPv4 Address Brokers and Legacy Address Space

If you are the contact listed in one of the global registries for the IPv4 addresses held by your University or College, I’m sure you will have received numerous emails from address brokers offering to buy some or all of your IPv4 addresses. This post is intended to provide some advice. Many of Jisc’s members […]