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NANOG 92 in Toronto: A Focus on IPv6

Kentik

Introduction The North American Network Operators’ Group ( NANOG ) 92 conference, held in Toronto from October 21–23, 2024, provided a platform for internet professionals to discuss key advancements in networking technology and infrastructure. To that end, they set a theme for each NANOG conference, and for NANOG 92 that was IPv6.

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Starlink Enters Transit Market With Community Gateways

Kentik

Starlink, the groundbreaking satellite internet provider, is best known for its direct-to-consumer model: customers sign up for service, set up a dish in their yard, and connect to the internet over a relatively high-bandwidth, low-latency link. That’s when Starlink began providing internet transit through its new Community Gateways.

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HTTP/3 in the Wild: Why It Beats HTTP/2 Where It Matters Most

The New Stack

Based on thousands of real-user simulations and extensive internet performance monitoring conducted by Catchpoint across six continents, here’s what we’ve learned. How HTTP/3 Solves TCP’s Core Bottlenecks HTTP/3 is not HTTP/2 over UDP — it’s HTTP/2 reimagined for the current internet.

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NANOG 93 in Atlanta: From Automation to AI

Kentik

From February 3-5, 2025, network engineers, operators, industry experts, and innovators gathered at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis to tackle the most pressing challenges and shape the future of the internet. NANOG has always been a crucial platform for the internet community, and NANOG 93 was no exception.

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A Year in Internet Analysis: 2023

Kentik

It’s the end of another eventful year on the internet, and time for another end-of-year recap of the analysis we’ve published since our last annual recap. The additional ROAs serve to increase the share of internet traffic eligible for the protection that RPKI ROV offers. IPv6 routes are already there.

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RPKI ROV Deployment Reaches Major Milestone

Kentik

As of today, May 1, 2024, internet routing security passed an important milestone. IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. This discrepancy was due to the fact that major content providers and eyeball networks had completed RPKI deployments in recent years and account for a disproportionate share of internet traffic volume.

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Beyond Their Intended Scope: DDoS Mitigation Leak

Kentik

Late last year, we published the first edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, our new blog series intended to shed light on BGP mishaps which may have escaped the attention of the internet community but are still worthy of analysis. Using Kentik’s BGP visualization, shown below, we can see how the internet reached AS10310 for 27.123.34.0/23