Apr 19 2017
Background With the latest full software release of the Sensus platform for the 90 (and soon the new 60) series vehicles from Volvo Android Auto has been added as a feature. This application is meant to provide similar functionality for Android phone users to that of the current Apple CarPlay services. While this is obviously …
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Aug 22 2012
[Update 2012-08-22 – 14:20] IS fixed some local routing announces after my posting here. Nice to have a senior IS network engineer sitting next to me – Ta Riaan. As such latency to Telkom and MTN now looks better but capacity is still a tad ‘tight’. So, sitting at the AFPIF3 meeting today and feeling …
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Jul 19 2012
While checking over our BGP peering and transit statistics I decided to drop past the excellent BGPMon site at they provide some interesting statistics, specifically: African IPv4 BGP WeatherMap and the African IPv6 BGP Weather Map. What surprised me is just how quickly Neology has managed to climb the ranks – its damn exciting to see and I …
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May 30 2012
During a recent set of customer queries around network latency and jitter I was reminded of the subjectivity of complaints It feels slow My calls stutter It must be your fault 😉 Well, how do we try reduce the guesswork – we revisit the brilliant Web100 project – now migrated to the Web10g project. This …
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Feb 16 2012
Well, sometimes things simply work out. As my MSc ISM dissertation topic is starting to take shape I have to opportunity to attend Blackhat Europe in Amsterdam from the 13th till the 16th of March. I’ll be able to attend some of the leading presentations in the field (a few of which relate to my …
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Oct 13 2011
Just a quick note – will update with a more complete post later… I’ll not go into details of why I had a spare Meinberg LANTIME 300/GPS as it would make my blood boil – so let me stick to the positive 😉 With a rather limited set of SA Stratum-1 servers publicly available we decided to deploy …
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