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Unlocking Digital Growth: The Role of IXPs in South East Europe

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Jelena Cosic

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How do we know when an IXP is working well? What goals should it achieve, and can success be measured in the same way everywhere? A new RIPE NCC report takes a closer look at these questions in the context of the SEE region.

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Six Ways To Use Khipu To See And Solve Network Problems

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Stephen Suess

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Since we launched Khipu, we’ve been working to pin down the most useful, real-world workflows. This article walks through six core use cases - from outage detection, though routing policy validation, to exploring IXPs along network paths.

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CAPIF 4: Grounded in IPv6, Looking to Orbit

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Anastasiya Pak

5 min read

With record-breaking participation in Almaty, CAPIF 4 rallied network operators, IXPs, policymakers, and researchers to map Central Asia’s next steps. The message was clear: accelerate IPv6, deepen interconnection and measurement for resilience, and diversify paths to keep traffic closer to home.

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Autocast: Automatic Anycast Site Optimisation

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Thijs van den Hout

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Autocast turns one round of unicast latency measurements into millisecond-accurate predictions, automatically selecting the optimal anycast locations for fast .nl response times worldwide. Pairing simulated annealing with real resolver telemetry, it delivers lean, cost-aware PoP sets - often around…

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Live-Event Blocking at Scale: Effectiveness vs. Collateral Damage in Italy’s Piracy Shield

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Antonio Prado

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Italy’s Piracy Shield blocks IPs and domains within minutes, but measurements performed by researchers at the University of Twente and colleagues show broad collateral damage to legitimate services. We share the results of those measurements in the hopes of sparking a community discussion around th…

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Edge Cases in DNSSEC Validation with Multiple Algorithms

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Arlin Kokkelmans

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As part of our research into post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for DNSSEC, we test PQC as a drop-in replacement for classical algorithms. We explore a transition where both run simultaneously, analysing how resolvers validate records, edge cases, and the feasibility and impact of such a period.

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Cyber Risk Is Business Risk: Lessons from the MUSE Cyberattack

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Kathleen Moriarty

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Recent disruption linked to the MUSE cyberattack shows how dependent airports are on shared IT services. This article looks at governance and network design choices that limit blast radius and keep operations running.

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Working with BGP Data

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Have you heard about MRT dumps, but never tried to use them because the bar seems too high? Or are you tired of doing “parse -> grep -> process” every time you touch BGP MRT dumps? This hands-on guide shows how to load RIS/RouteViews data into ClickHouse - covering tools, schema, and example querie…

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CAPIF 4: Advancing Internet Technologies in Central Asia

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Qasim Lone

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Ahead of CAPIF 4, we once again pause to examine the latest in Central Asia’s digital transformation. Against a backdrop of deepening regional cooperation, we chart improvements in routing security and IPv6 adoption, while also probing interconnection patterns as seen in K-root data.

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Bangladesh’s Internet Transformation: From Satellite Shadows to Digital Highways

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Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

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In the past two decades, the Internet in Bangladesh has gotten out from under the shadow of its earlier dependence on costly satellite links for connectivity, growing from 0.1% to over 75% penetration. But the real work lies ahead: strengthening local peering, reaching rural areas, and building inf…

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