Internets of Interest: 13^th May

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 13^th May:

• Nortel con­firms fire sale • The Register — As pre­dicted, Nortel isn’t com­ing back. Customers ran away in droves when they went broke since they didn’t like Nortel much any­way. I can’t ima­gine that any­one has much loy­alty to Nortel left. A recent stint at a Service Provider I saw them still buy­ing Nortel but not by choice, if they could move to another plat­form they would have changed on the spot.

  Breaking Nortel into pieces (a la Cabletron) is a sad end to what was a fine company.

• Prism — Oh boy. This is excit­ing. We can move away from using Adobe Air or MS Silverlight for web apps (and Flash) and move towards a more viable desktop plat­form. Because the use of HTML/​Javascript is far more pop­u­lar than Air or Silverlight, and the fact that it is an open plat­form should mean that this tech­no­logy will take off.

  Bring on the web apps!

• IPv4 address exhaus­tion — Wikipedia, the free encyc­lo­pe­dia — Wikipedia has some good mater­ial that you can rip off for an internal report on the IPv4 exa­haus­tion and com­ing IPV6 IPocalypse.
• IPv4 Address Pool — Quarterly updated chart show­ing the usage of IPv4 address from the RIR per­spect­ive. Note the gradual rate of increase of IP address alloc­a­tion. Seriously, I won­der when the land rush the start to grab chunks of IPv4 addresses so that “we don’t have to upgrade any­time soon”
• xkcd — A Webcomic — Map of the Internet — World’s best car­toon maps the Internet IPv4 address range. Cool funny.

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