As a network guy, it's a _great_ time to be an experienced network person. The only mature aspect of the ill-defined SDN sphere is OpenFlow and that will only get you so far. Try as they might, controllers like OpenDayLight and the various things that plug into Neutron/OpenStack aren't plug and play for those w/o significant network knowledge.
From my vantage point, it's going to be at least another five years before the cost structure really does turn over on it's head for folks below the hyperscale level
you can try finding good deals in areas you are interested (be certain to ask for "test" IPs, then look up their connectivity via _multiple_ looking glasses) on www.oneprovider.com and then pair that with a robust DNS provider such as NSOne and you've got yourself a pretty decent, bespoke CDN. provided you already know how to do reverse caching proxies and all the other "magic" a CDN needs to work.
if there is one thing I've learned from being in the OpenBSD community for the past 10+ years it's that current hype is of little to no interest to the folks writing code.
I'm a network engineer with a strong interest in container networking -- where does anycast come into play in your immutable infrastructure? I am highly curious!
"unmetered" is a popular dedicated hosting company marketing trick. things are generally oversubscribed to horrifically oversubscribed and you'll be very hard pressed to sustain 100Mbps 24x7 for a full day, let alone a full month.
great engineers who can also articulate the technology in a polished, publishable form? not saying it's impossible, or that you didn't just setup a marketing team. but please pass my regards to whomever is editing before publishing. it's got a perfect, polished tone that any marketer would want.
having a slight understanding but no direct knowledge of their network infrastructure, that's probably for financial not technical reasons (they can handle the largest volumetric attacks and then some)
when DDoS prevention (traffic scrubbing, really) was just becoming a thing, many of the smaller and less scrupulous players in the market did precisely that.
there is a reason some folks call them blogflare. They have great engineering talent and a marketing team that knows exactly how to acquire customers and more engineering talent.
submarine cables are significantly different than terrestrial fiber networks. a fault will be detected in/from both directions, immediately and automatically.
it has been suggested that the USS Jimmy Carter can tap submarine cables without disrupting service or physically damaging the fiber.
did you know when you bend a strand of fiber enough, you can make out the signal and only affect attenuation?
there was a time public opinion thought alcohol should be illegal. there was also a long stretch of time where public opinion thought jews and people of irish descent shouldn't have certain jobs.
public opinion is useless. the US is a country of laws, not men (people)
I just came across Airfy which apparently gets around this by tunnelling (I assume) all traffic and taking all legal liability and risk. I've also read that this Stoererhaftung law is set to change this year, specifically to allow things like free WiFi in businesses.
what do you think makes it expensive? I can assure you that the fiber cable itself is cheap, the equipment to install the cable is inexpensive, and even the labor required is not that expensive. lawyers and red tape/delays/time are very, very expensive.
>Our typical modus operandi was to go into MDUs (Multi Dwelling Units) and offer the property owner revenue share contract in exchange for exclusive rights to the property; something the incumbents don't do. This only works with MDUs not municipalities.
they must have caught on, because they certainly do this in some markets. I know first hand of this in Downtown Los Angeles.
I am wrestling with it now, because I cant justify spending 150EUR/month _and_ 1500EUR at year end to keep books and file returns. I have but six to ten invoices a year, and only myself as an employee; but such an animal doesn't seem very interesting to every relevant tax and accounting professional I've inquired with in Berlin. Perhaps it is the "English" premium, but at those costs I'm stuck spending more time than I care, at possibly greater risk than I am aware of, trying to do my own paperwork and books. In a system I mostly grok from (translated!) blog posts!
I flew from JFK to LAX to DEN with eight 9mm, hollow point rounds in my carry on bag. Denver TSA finally caught it and was very, very nice about it all (being white, having recently trimmed my beard, and having a non-foreign name definitely helped in that regard)
TSA at major airports is security theatre, plain and simple.
ahh but you can't pay yourself entirely from dividends. at least, if you are speaking form the standpoint of a US citizen/tax payer. there is a vague but very well litigated stipulation that your wages must be "fair" and commensurate with the work you do for the corporate entity you own. if not, they'll just say your dividends were wages and you owe back taxes + interest and penalties.
the you spend some time defining what a typical 2G and 3G connection looks like to your end users, and then you replicate that with existing tools. There are very, very many open source solutions to adding latency, jitter, throttling bandwidth, and replicating packet loss. in fact, I'd argue that coming up with a few solid definitions of what a 2G and 3G connection look like is far more accurate than running tests over one dongle "IRL"