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popper · 13-06-2007, 16:45

It's In The News: is a general thread to replace She tells it like it is.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...l#post34325919
as there seems to be some question as to weather its allowed to make your general news sighting posts there under that topic thread and the OP has not made comment as to his original wish.

to be clear:this thread topic IS setup by me, and is intended to take any and all external news posts you deem interesting even the odd non VM news story now an then, (but it might be better to make another all subjects It's In The News: 2 thread elsewere

and link to it from here), and i ask that it remain so.....

as far as im concerned its perfectly fine to pull off any news post made here and start another thread to continue that topic, links back here might be nice to

why did i do this, im bored around here lately and thought it might help start new readers posting their thoughts and idea's as the less traveled news URL's get an airing here hopefully.

so to begin: (now go find yours and post them, even the shy readers too)

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http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/cgi-b...action=display
Virgin Mobile co-founders resign
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Virgin Mobile co-founders managing director Alan Gow and deputy managing director and Joe Steel have resigned. [img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

Steele leaves next month while Gow will depart once a successor is in place.

Both men were both co-founders of Virgin Mobile in 1999 and have been responsible for steering the company’s development before and during the launch of Virgin Media.

The changes reflect the integration between Virgin Media’s cable operation and Virgin Mobile, particularly in distribution and IT. However, Virgin Mobile will continue to exist as a brand and business unit in its own right...."

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http://www.lightreading.com/document...26390&site=cdn
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Virgin Revamps DNS StrategyJUNE 13, 2007

Discuss >
Virgin Media (Nasdaq: VMED - message board) says a small investment in new domain name server (DNS) technology it's deploying should make its broadband services appear faster to customers and make its network more secure.

The U.K. cable operator, known as NTL before it adopted its new name earlier this year, is "investing a few hundred thousand pounds, much less than Ã‚Â£1 million [$2 million]" on new DNS equipment, which translates domain names into IP addresses, from Nominum Inc. . (See Virgin Media Picks Nominum and NTL Relaunches as Virgin Media.)

The new gear, and the way it's being deployed will have an impact on Web page response times and network security, says Keith Oborn, the operator's Network Systems Product Architect.

Here's why. Oborn says both NTL and Telewest, the two U.K. cable operators that merged in late 2005 and then subsequently acquired Virgin Mobile (hence the new name), were both already using Nominum's Caching Name Server technology, though in a slightly different setup.

(See NTL & Telewest: Together at Last! and NTL Takes Virgin.)
"We decided to revamp the DNS architecture for the relaunch as Virgin Media as, while Nominum's technology does exactly what it says on the tin, we had vulnerabilities in both legacy systems, which we're addressing by deploying a distributed architecture" and an inter-server communication technique called BGP anycast, says Oborn.

He says NTL previously had "two large DNS clusters with load balancers, but these created bottlenecks," which slowed down the time it took for domain name lookups to be executed.

Now, though, "we are distributing them around the edge of the network, and by September we will have 50 deployed, far more than we will actually need to meet traffic demands.

Any one server will likely only ever be five percent busy, so if one fails, no one will notice, and we have tested this.

It would take a lot of them to fail simultaneously to have an impact and the chances of that happening aren't even worth calculating," says the Virgin Media man.

The new setup will kill off any bottleneck problems and result in a better response time -- 10 milliseconds across the Virgin Media backbone. ..."

13-06-2007, 16:45	#1
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	It's In The News: a central thread It's In The News: is a general thread to replace She tells it like it is. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...l#post34325919 as there seems to be some question as to weather its allowed to make your general news sighting posts there under that topic thread and the OP has not made comment as to his original wish. to be clear:this thread topic IS setup by me, and is intended to take any and all external news posts you deem interesting even the odd non VM news story now an then, (but it might be better to make another all subjects It's In The News: 2 thread elsewere and link to it from here), and i ask that it remain so..... as far as im concerned its perfectly fine to pull off any news post made here and start another thread to continue that topic, links back here might be nice to why did i do this, im bored around here lately and thought it might help start new readers posting their thoughts and idea's as the less traveled news URL's get an airing here hopefully. so to begin: (now go find yours and post them, even the shy readers too) ------------------------------------------------ http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/cgi-b...action=display Virgin Mobile co-founders resign " Virgin Mobile co-founders managing director Alan Gow and deputy managing director and Joe Steel have resigned. [img]Download Failed (1)[/img] Steele leaves next month while Gow will depart once a successor is in place. Both men were both co-founders of Virgin Mobile in 1999 and have been responsible for steering the company’s development before and during the launch of Virgin Media. The changes reflect the integration between Virgin Media’s cable operation and Virgin Mobile, particularly in distribution and IT. However, Virgin Mobile will continue to exist as a brand and business unit in its own right...." -------------------------- http://www.lightreading.com/document...26390&site=cdn " Virgin Revamps DNS StrategyJUNE 13, 2007Discuss > Virgin Media (Nasdaq: VMED - message board) says a small investment in new domain name server (DNS) technology it's deploying should make its broadband services appear faster to customers and make its network more secure. The U.K. cable operator, known as NTL before it adopted its new name earlier this year, is "investing a few hundred thousand pounds, much less than Ã‚Â£1 million [$2 million]" on new DNS equipment, which translates domain names into IP addresses, from Nominum Inc. . (See Virgin Media Picks Nominum and NTL Relaunches as Virgin Media.) The new gear, and the way it's being deployed will have an impact on Web page response times and network security, says Keith Oborn, the operator's Network Systems Product Architect. Here's why. Oborn says both NTL and Telewest, the two U.K. cable operators that merged in late 2005 and then subsequently acquired Virgin Mobile (hence the new name), were both already using Nominum's Caching Name Server technology, though in a slightly different setup. (See NTL & Telewest: Together at Last! and NTL Takes Virgin.) "We decided to revamp the DNS architecture for the relaunch as Virgin Media as, while Nominum's technology does exactly what it says on the tin, we had vulnerabilities in both legacy systems, which we're addressing by deploying a distributed architecture" and an inter-server communication technique called BGP anycast, says Oborn. He says NTL previously had "two large DNS clusters with load balancers, but these created bottlenecks," which slowed down the time it took for domain name lookups to be executed. Now, though, "we are distributing them around the edge of the network, and by September we will have 50 deployed, far more than we will actually need to meet traffic demands. Any one server will likely only ever be five percent busy, so if one fails, no one will notice, and we have tested this. It would take a lot of them to fail simultaneously to have an impact and the chances of that happening aren't even worth calculating," says the Virgin Media man. The new setup will kill off any bottleneck problems and result in a better response time -- 10 milliseconds across the Virgin Media backbone. ..."