IWL Chief Technical Officer Karl Auerbach delivered the Keynote speech at NANOG 77 in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, October 29, 2019

“Network Operations On A Public Utility Internet” ...

It was 11:10pm on the night of October 9, 2019. Here along the Monterey Bay the weather was calm, cool, and a bit damp. The lights were on, the internet was working, the car was charging; everything was normal.

At 11:11pm things suddenly changed…

IWL has its offices at the Kings Village Center in Scotts Valley, California. This morning we noticed construction in the parking lot. A bit of inquiring revealed that Tesla is installing a new Supercharging station here in the Kings Village Center of Scotts Valley. Rumor is that it is one of the new Level 3 designs…

Prior to planning or funding 5G rollouts, technology implementers must rigorously question 5G claims and look for substantiated evidence. IWL issued a caution today that some of the claims made by investors in 5G technology are exaggerated or lead to overly-naïve conclusions …

Customers abandon apps that are not responsive, according to recent studies. Two key mistakes are testing only over the local area network and having no test methodology…

5G is the latest technology for cellular mobile communications. Deployment is expected to take place sometime between late 2019 and mid 2020. The benefits of 5G will be available to new, 5G-enabled devices. However, developers who need to know what kinds of hurdles to expect for their applications may be disappointed …

While many open source TCP/IP implementations are available via standard operating system distributions, some applications require changes and customization to TCP/IP. Hence, the requirement to track best practices and the current status of the protocol’s evolution. What has changed? A lot, really! …