BGP Prefix filtering is one of the essentials glues which hold the Internet together. Yet, many SPs don’t put the level of detailed thinking needed to ensure all policies, security issues, and service requirements are met. Some things I see with BGP prefix filtering policies which are often forgotten are: Comments used in the policy. Read More
Getting Started with SP Security
People ask me how do I get started with safe guarding my Service Provider (SP) network. The place I point, is a tutorial we’ve created with NSP-SEC. This tutorial goes through simple things that helps a engineer in a SP gets their feet wet. Check out the latest version presented at NANOG here: ISP Security Read More
Principles of Trans-Oceanic Systems
Interconnecting with Services Providers (SPs) across the ocean is expensive and risky. The cost of the links are often the largest entry in the OPEX budget. All of it in hard currency which leaves the company (vs paying another department inside the SP). The risk to these links is often over looked. Oceanic telecommunications systems Read More
SPAM Workshop at ITU World Telecom 2006, 8th December, Hong Kong
Details of the Spam workshop program can be found online There was a lot of useful information shared during the sessions especially with case studies from various countries. Mr Luc Mathan, Board member of MAAWG, noted that with NGN there should not just be a focus on spam legislation but on the whole Interrnet legislation. Read More
Highlights of Mobile voice to Mobile Web- a TIE Wireless SIG meeting, Nov’06
This evening, the TIE Wireless SIG hosted a meeting on Mobile Voice to Mobile Web, and this attracted so many people from the Valley. The room was at standing room capacity and the audience were actively asking questions even after the session ended. (photos of the session and the panel names are listed at www.bayareajournal.blogspot.com) Read More
Harmful interference from WLAN devices
Harmful Interference Thanksgiving is a big holiday here in the United States so I have been offline for a time catching up and traveling. Whilst I was at my in-laws place, where my husband fixed a new WLAN solution, we found access to be sporadic and unstable. After some trouble shooting, we found that the Read More
Call for EU Regional Regulatory Body
The issue of having a regional regulatory body was raised again by Viviane Redding, Information Society Commissioner at the EU. Having 25 national authorities going back and forth with the EU as not made it easy for many operators to do business in Europe. She said that such a body could cut the red tape Read More
Google predicting free phones
Googe CEO Eric Schmidt says consumers would free cell phones – provided they accept targeted advertising. Interesting comment by Google. If mobile ads will lead to free phones, why has successful advertising models not led to free PCs or TV sets. Strange extrapolition if you ask me. Yes, phone are getting cheaper yet the more Read More
India Telecom 2006, Dec 14-16, 2006
First time ever an international exhibition and conference being organised by Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Govt. of India in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Telecom Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (TEMA) scheduled from December 14 – 16, 2006 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi which will focus on technology development & Read More
Newly elected Directors at ITU
Mr Valery TIMOFEEV from the Russian Federation, has been elected to serve another term as Director of the Radiocommunications Bureau at the ITU. According to Mr Timofeev’s statement, the Radiocommunication Bureau’s short-term and long-term priorities include: To carry out the preparatory work necessary to ensure the successful holding of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2007, Read More