Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

The Seattle Russian Embassy is in the Westin Building just 4 floors above the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room. They use to come ask us (an ISP) for IT help back in '96 when they would drag an icon too far off the screen in Windows 3.11. We were on the same floor. -- Joe

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 02:02:46PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > There must be a perfectly logical explanation Yes, people in the > industry know where the choke points are. But the choke points aren't always > the most obvious places. Its kinda a weird for diplomats to show up there. Maybe

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

Sean Donelan wrote: > But, its odd to send diplomats to remote areas of the country, if you are > not trying to survey geographic infrastructure in the middle of the > country. It's just "for show." If they really wanted to be invisible, they could do so without using diplomats - a group

Re: Leasing /22 blocks

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Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

Sean said: "Unlike cable landing stations and satellite earth stations, which are documented in public FCC licenses, usually to 6 decimal points of longitude & latitude; and and included in navigation maps" Or you just follow the manhole covers that say Global Crossings. -- Joe Hamelin,

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 12:20:54PM -0700, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > That said, a pretty quick way to get on some homeland security watch lists > would be to hang around a cable landing station beach location with a big > DSLR camera, and appear uninterested in the beach... I think regardless of what

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:15:12PM -0700, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > The Seattle Russian Embassy is in the Westin Building just 4 floors > above the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room. > They use to come ask us (an ISP) for IT help back in '96 when they > would drag an icon too

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: > I think regardless of what you appear to be interested in, hanging around a > beach with a big DSLR is likely to get you on one list or another. "Excuse me, sir! Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameda? It's where

Survey on Internet agreement ecosystem

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Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Scott Christopher wrote: But, its odd to send diplomats to remote areas of the country, if you are not trying to survey geographic infrastructure in the middle of the country. It's just "for show." If they really wanted to be invisible, they could do so without using

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room. They use to > 'nro tap room' ... what's the expansion of NRO here?

need to talk with a comcast noc engineer rather urgently

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Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Rod Beck wrote: And even in Kansas most fiber optic cables are probably next to roads, gas pipelines, and railways. Pretty easy to find. Unlike cable landing stations and satellite earth stations, which are documented in public FCC licenses, usually to 6 decimal points of

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Re: Internet connectivity in Ghana

All of the licensed mobile phone network operators in Ghana are also ISPs and can reach enterprise customers. Within Accra or a few other major coastal cities, either by microwave rooftop/tower based links or their terrestrial fiber. Should definitely be much faster and more economical than

Re: Leasing /22 blocks

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 04:44:52PM +, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote: > Recently had someone offer to lease some IPv4 address space from me. > Have never done that before. > > I thought I would ask the group what a reasonable monthly rate for a > /22 in the United States might be. Let me

Re: Lille, France

Hello Rod, Altice France can sell you optical links or optical transport or IPv4/v6 transit from any to any point in France. Lille to Paris should be OK. For last mile networks we should be able to help you since we have the biggest optical network in France (we have approximately 2 million

Re: Leasing /22 blocks

You must look deeply into the company you lease IPs too. Have a contract - there is one on RentIPv4.com you can download, copy and modify. (I created it, I say you can do that if you need one.) But the contract is a small partBecause companies come and go. You must be able to verify many

Re: Lille, France

Hi all, I beg to differ Scott, the SFR Group owned by Altice lays its own Fiber Optic networks and are present in all major cities in France. Each company that has been part of the group has a solid knowledge of fiber deployments for B2C and B2B clients. The mergers and acquisitions has helped

XO SIP in Chicago

Is anyone else having issues with XO SIP service in the Chicago area?  We’re seeing poor audio quality on outbound calls and inbound calls may or may not work.     Thanks!

Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

There must be a perfectly logical explanation Yes, people in the industry know where the choke points are. But the choke points aren't always the most obvious places. Its kinda a weird for diplomats to show up there. On the other hand, I've been a fiber optic tourist. I've visited

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

> On Jun 1, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > There must be a perfectly logical explanation Yes, people in the > industry know where the choke points are. But the choke points aren't always > the most obvious places. Its kinda a weird for diplomats to show up

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

DO NOT ANCHOR OR DREDGE is a pretty good indicator. On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> On Jun 1, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: >> >> >> There must be a perfectly logical explanation Yes, people in the >> industry know

RE: Anyone using Arista 7280R as edge router?

> Arista’s specs say the 7500R / 7280R can handle 1M ipv4+ipv6 routes in > hardware (FIB): I'm using these as edge routers facing multiple peering networks and several full table feeds. No problems so far, very cost effective platform in my mind. Here is what it looks like with about 100 peers

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:32:28 -0700, Brandon Vincent said: > DO NOT ANCHOR OR DREDGE is a pretty good indicator. In Kansas? :) pgpYVwj6j1AF6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

That's how we found the Russian's fiber cables: "According to “Blind Man’s Bluff,” Bradley, in his predawn stupor, recalled from his youth written signs that had been posted along the Mississippi River to mark undersea cables. The signs, posted along the shore, were meant to prevent passing

Re: Lille, France

Rod Beck wrote: > Altice is in the States and going public soon. They have been producing > superior financial results. Appears to know how to run these cable > networks better than the standard American management. They don't actually lay any cable though, nor do they build their own network.

Leasing /22 blocks

Recently had someone offer to lease some IPv4 address space from me. Have never done that before. I thought I would ask the group what a reasonable monthly rate for a /22 in the United States might be. Thanks in advance! Ed(ward) Ray

Re: BCP38/84 and DDoS ACLs

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RE: [SPF] RFC2544 Testing Equipment

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Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: > Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, > Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I > wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer > would be useful, But isn't

Re: Lille, France

Rod, We have carriers in France. Can you provide end point addresses and phone numbers along with desired services? Thank you, On May 24, 2017 2:03:19 PM CDT, Rod Beck wrote: >Hi, > > >I am looking for insight into which carriers have metropolitan or last

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Internet connectivity in Ghana

Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees. Do any of the major carriers

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Re: Internet connectivity in Ghana

These cable systems land in Ghana. Look to see who rides those cable systems to see who is at least capable of serving your client. Then you have to figure out how to get from your client to the coast. SAT-3 WACS GLO1 ACE MainOne - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Rod Beck wrote: As someone who has sold a lot of capacity on Hibernia Atlantic, I must concur. There is a website showing where most of the Trans-Atlantic cables land on the West Coast of Britain at towns like Bude in Wales. Hiding is not an option. As far as I know,

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

It's not like the locations of any of the transatlantic or transpacific cable landing stations are a big secret. They're published in the FCC's digest reports for international authorization and whenever ownership of a cable changes hands or is restructured. Additionally it is pretty hard to hide

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

Sea levels rose pretty quickly On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Rod Beck wrote: > >> As someone who has sold a lot of capacity on Hibernia Atlantic, I must >> concur. There is a website showing where most of the Trans-Atlantic cables

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

And even in Kansas most fiber optic cables are probably next to roads, gas pipelines, and railways. Pretty easy to find. From: Sean Donelan Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:54:32 PM To: Rod Beck Cc: Eric Kuhnke; nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re:

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

As someone who has sold a lot of capacity on Hibernia Atlantic, I must concur. There is a website showing where most of the Trans-Atlantic cables land on the West Coast of Britain at towns like Bude in Wales. Hiding is not an option. http://www.kis-orca.eu/ Regards, Roderick.

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

Last time I checked satellite imagery, existing fiber maps, as well as signs saying "Fiber Optic Cables" lead to the same outcome: Very little can be hidden. Nice try, Sean. You can try out next year. From: Sean Donelan Sent: Thursday, June

Solarwinds Orion/NPM business hours 95th percentile query

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Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On 2017-06-01 16:04, Rod Beck wrote: And even in Kansas most fiber optic cables are probably next to roads, gas pipelines, and railways. Pretty easy to find. Yep, with those orange-and-white plastic pipe markers sticking up that say "CAUTION! Buried Fiber Optic Cable!" on 'em. --

RE: Leasing /22 blocks

Yeah, I was looking at ipv4auctions.com a while back and recall seeing $10/per ip… now it seems that $12.50/per ip is the lowest -Aaron

Re: Internet connectivity in Ghana

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Re: Leasing /22 blocks

Almost attractive pricing, but then we assume those IPs are trashed for life, and attract blowback scan/hack traffic? I would think that permanent sale is the only option, once one has removed all traces of one's name from all records (irr and robtex and mxtoolbox and and and) before one does.

RE: Leasing /22 blocks

Someone recently reached out to me and asked me about this same thing... to which I responded by asking them how much they would pay me to lease my address space... here was their response...I'm pretty sure they are U.S.-based company. I'd rather not say who they are... since I'm not sure I'm at

RE: Leasing /22 blocks

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RE: Leasing /22 blocks

For purchase price I've seen a lot of recommendation for https://www.ipv4auctions.com/ Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jun 1, 2017 9:53 AM, "Aaron Gould" wrote: > Someone recently reached out to me and asked me

RE: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

We used VeEX for a while and had our CO Techs run around with hand-held VeEx testers and run tests from them to a VeEx loopback device I config'd mpls pw's between them. We don't really do this anymore... we now role out Accedian MetroNid's and MetroNode's which have a lot of this RFC2544

RE: Leasing /22 blocks

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