Internet Infrastructure Newsletter - March 2009
Welcome! NeuStar is delighted to present the second edition of its Internet Infrastructure Newsletter, bringing you the latest news on the UltraDNS and Webmetrics service lines, as well as industry updates through our partnership with CircleID. We hope you find the content of interest and as always we appreciate your feedback.
A Cost Effective Alternative to CDN Services
In today's complex and media rich Internet environment, the amount of data transferred to end users to power web applications has increased dramatically. Given the highly distributed internet community, this data passes across multiple ISP networks and even international routes, and as a result, severely impacting performance and availability of the website and its applications. More>>>
Multi-Homed Approach to Website Monitoring
A Multi-Homed approach is defined as multiple ISP connections to one agent. Each agent has multiple connections to the internet, primarily for redundancy. It follows the standard Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is the core routing protocol of the Internet. Most Internet Service Providers must use BGP to establish the best routing path between one another. More>>>
Survey: Cloud Computing 'No Hype', But Fear of Security and Control Slowing Adoption
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the vast majority of business and IT executives report that cloud computing is a viable technology option that can improve a company's bottom-line results discussions.More>>>
DNS Amplification Variant Expected in Future Major DDoS Attacks, Experts Warn
Several sources are reporting about a new form of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks which are based on a new variant of DNS amplification. DNS amplification was first widely publicized in March of 2006. More>>>
Black Hat DC 2009: Kaminsky Pushing for DNSSEC Adoption
Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions. More>>>
New Internet Study Finds Web and Streaming Higher Than P2P Traffic
ipoque, a European deep packet inspection hardware provider has published an Internet study for 2008/2009 providing an overview of the Internet's current state based on analyzing 1.3 petabytes of Internet traffic-"the amount of data equal to 300,000 DVDs. More>>>
Another Look at the Latest Domain Name Numbers and Trends
here are now 177 million domain names across all top-level domains, which is an increase by 16% (24 million domain names) compared to a year ago. These numbers are from the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. More>>>
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