BGP Monitoring
What tools are you using to monitor BGP announcements and route changes? [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:915068ae-ac24-488b-95e0-65fd40ea5afb] 305.967.6756 x1009| [cid:6f566813-2e6f-4b77-86fb-6dcf7b370a8a] 305.571.6272 [cid:3bcb9fcf-e0d4-43db-afd5-f0d92d993db5] r...@oit.co<mailto:r...@oit.co> | [https://www.oit.co] <https://www.oit.co/> www.oit.co<https://www.oit.co/> [cid:de964c1d-0360-48dc-99f4-11b48385b44b] oit.co/ray [Facebook]<https://go.oit.co/facebook> [LinkedIn]<https://go.oit.co/linkedin> [Twitter]<https://go.oit.co/twitter> [YouTube]<https://go.oit.co/youtube> Join the OITVOIP Family at the Right of Boom Event in Las Vegas, NV on March 6th - 8th Register Today! https://www.rightofboom.com/<https://www.rightofboom.com/>
Re: Any info on AT Wireless Outage?
We're affected as well. Unable to dial out. I haven't found any official statement though. [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:c8519a01-d6f7-40e7-8376-cceab8183f23] 305.967.6756 x1009| [cid:4471b74c-1422-4b97-b14d-39a4abda62c8] 305.571.6272 [cid:0c583814-5618-4d1c-adef-47d8ae21bb43] r...@oit.co<mailto:r...@oit.co> | [https://www.oit.co] <https://www.oit.co/> www.oit.co<https://www.oit.co/> [cid:1c14adba-384b-4917-bca8-3410f5298a27] oit.co/ray [Facebook]<https://go.oit.co/facebook> [LinkedIn]<https://go.oit.co/linkedin> [Twitter]<https://go.oit.co/twitter> [YouTube]<https://go.oit.co/youtube> How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review<https://go.oit.co/review> From: NANOG on behalf of Robert DeVita Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:03 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Any info on AT Wireless Outage? Reports have it starting at 4:30 a.m.. SOS on all phones.. [cid:image001.jpg@01DA655D.39E82510] Robert DeVita CEO and Founder t: (469) 581-2160 | m: (469) 441-8864 e: radev...@mejeticks.com<mailto:radev...@mejeticks.com> | w: mejeticks.com<https://www.mejeticks.com/> a: 2323 N Akard Street , Dallas , 75201 [cid:image002.png@01DA655D.39E82510]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/mejeticks/> [cid:image003.png@01DA655D.39E82510]<https://twitter.com/mejeticks> [cid:image004.png@01DA655D.39E82510]<https://www.facebook.com/mejeticks> [cid:image005.png@01DA655D.39E82510]<https://linktr.ee/mejeticks>
RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Cogent ...
It's illegal to prevent employees from discussing salary. Are you saying Cogent is doing unlawful things? Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Paul Timmins Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 11:57 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Cogent ... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. On 3/31/22 11:38, Laura Smith via NANOG wrote: > However, perhaps someone would care to elaborate (either on or off-list) what > the deal is with the requirement to sign NDAs with Cogent before they'll > discuss things like why they still charge for BGP, or indeed any other > technical or pricing matters. Seems weird ?!? Same reason your employer doesn't want employees telling each other their salary. Not every similarly situated customer pays the same for the same service.
RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ?
Voip.ms attack has cleared up. Now they’re just screwed due to bandwidth.com. I haven’t seen anyone confirm the type of DDOS attack and it’s impossible to know if it’s related to the voip.ms attack. However that’s very likely. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review From: NANOG On Behalf Of Mel Beckman Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 5:56 PM To: babydr DBA James W. Laferriere Cc: Nanog Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. Both VoIP.ms and Bandwidth.com<http://bandwidth.com> are getting serious UDP DDoS attacks. It’s affecting some cell carriers as well that have TDM-to-IP conversions in their PSTN. Check on SlashDot for a nice summary. -mel On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:49 PM, babydr DBA James W. Laferriere mailto:bab...@baby-dragons.com>> wrote: Hello All , Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ? Just tried calling back east and not even a all lines are busy signal . Tia , JimL -- +-+ | James W. Laferriere| SystemTechniques | Give me VMS | | Network & System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux | | j...@system-techniques.com<mailto:j...@system-techniques.com> | Fairbanks, AK. 99709 | only on AXP | +-+
RE: EXTERNAL: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ?
Yes, Bandwidth has been experiencing DDoS attacks since Sat. status.bandwidth.com and downdetector.com Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of babydr DBA James W. Laferriere Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 5:50 PM To: Nanog Subject: EXTERNAL: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. Hello All , Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ? Just tried calling back east and not even a all lines are busy signal . Tia , JimL -- +-+ | James W. Laferriere| SystemTechniques | Give me VMS | | Network & System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux | | j...@system-techniques.com | Fairbanks, AK. 99709 | only on AXP | +-+
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: VoIP Provider DDoSes
Yes there are. I was about to message Steve about the correction. Corero and path.net are options. There are others. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review From: NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:08:22 AM To: NANOG Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: VoIP Provider DDoSes CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/837?autostart=false It looks like Security Now covered this yesterday. They claimed that, "There is currently no provider of large pipe VoIP protocol DDoS protection." Are any of the cloud DDoS mitigation services offering a service like this. From: "Mike Hammett" To: "NANOG" Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:19:42 PM Subject: VoIP Provider DDoSes As many may know, a particular VoIP supplier is suffering a DDoS. https://twitter.com/voipms Are your garden variety DDoS mitigation platforms or services equipped to handle DDoSes of VoIP services? What nuances does one have to be cognizant of? A WAF doesn't mean much to SIP, IAX2, RTP, etc. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com
RE: EXTERNAL: Re: VoP regulatory consultant
I've worked with several of them over the past 10 years. I'm currently with CLA who bought GSA awhile back. I'm very happy with them. Matt LaHood is the contact. The contact is Matt LaHood Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tim Nelson Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 9:28 AM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: VoP regulatory consultant CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. Check the VoiceOps mailing list: http://voiceops.org/ --Tim On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 8:06 AM Ryan Finnesey via NANOG wrote: > > Would anyone have any recommendations on regulatory consultants for VoIP > within North America but markets outside the US? > > Get Outlook for iOS
ISP NOC contact at Spectrum and RR.com
Can anyone at Spectrum and RR.com contact me off list? We've been seeing a ton of packet loss in the NE US over the past week affecting voice quality. Thank you. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Can't Port from a Particular Rate Center
If there's wireless you can always try porting to wireless. We do that in a few rate centers Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray Headed to ASCII: Ohio on June 16th - 17th? Come meet the OITVOIP family! Find your city and register for FREE using code "OIT" https://go.oit.co/ASCII2021 From: NANOG on behalf of Peter Beckman Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:33:45 AM To: Mike Hammett Cc: NANOG Operators' Group Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Can't Port from a Particular Rate Center CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to the CSE team for review. I had this happen to me recently. Customer came in with a number that had very little coverage, but our carrier had a 1,000 block in the same ratecenter, so we held out some hope. Once we dug into it, the 1,000 block was designated for a different "service offering" with the carrier. They were not offering portability in that Ratecenter, despite having coverage, or even hardware or leased hardware there. So we had to send the customer off. There really were only about 5 carriers serving the Ratecenter, 3 of them wireless, one very local, and our carrier. If your carrier decides not to port a number, even when they seem to be present in the ratecenter in question, they are not required by any law or rule to port, AFAIK. If a company will port in, the other carrier must (IMHO) port out. If not, then you can't port. There may be some subtleties to that, but this is my understanding. Fun! Beckman On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, Mike Hammett wrote: > I first asked on a list much more narrow in scope, but failing to get > sufficient data points, I've expanded my scope. > > Assuming the number isn't held by someone exempt from porting, what would > prevent someone from being able to port a number from a particular rate > center in a LATA they have coverage in? > > We picked up a particular carrier for our out-of-area needs and the first > thing we throw at them in a LATA we know they have coverage in, they > can't do. They have a non-useful reason why. It doesn't appear to have > moved to a state where they contacted the losing provider as the response > was very fast, so my provider rejected the port, not theirs. > > When I started at this company (where we do our own porting), I made sure > to port a bunch of numbers from all over our LATA to see what would > happen. All successful. That seems to indicate that it doesn't matter > which xLEC or tandem currently serves that number, it can move elsewhere. > > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > --- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beck...@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---
RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Microsoft problems...
Azure is having outages atm - https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review From: NANOG On Behalf Of Justin Streiner Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:32 PM To: nano...@mulligan.org Cc: NANOG Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Microsoft problems... CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, please forward this email to i...@oit.co<mailto:i...@oit.co> for review. Can you be a bit more specific regarding what you're seeing or not seeing? Are you reaching MS through IP transit/peer connections, or are you having issues reaching MS cloud services over ExpressRoute circuits? Thank you jms On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:04 PM mailto:nano...@mulligan.org>> wrote: Anyone else noticing major MAJOR problems with various MS services? Geoff
RE: Looking for hosted SMTP service for small ISP
We use postmarkapp.com for our transactional and marketing outbound. It works extremely well and has excellent diagnostics. We've been with them a few years. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of John Levine Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Looking for hosted SMTP service for small ISP In article <670aea8b-ef34-6450-32f1-725ce6de7...@gmx.net> you write: >But a handful of customers rely on our SMTP server for outgoing e-mail. >Currently we host this our self with a physical box. But I would like >to have a hosted solution so that I don't have to worry about keeping >up with updates and latest spam techniques. Is this really outgoing only, or are you also providing mailboxes for incoming mail? An obvious question if you're not handling incoming mail is why don't they use their own mail provider (the one that handles mail for the domain on their From line) as their outgoing host? If you're looking for mail hosting at modest scale, I've been pretty happy with Tucows white label service. If it's outgoing only I would not recommend sendgrid who are chronically unable to manage their compromised and spamming customers. smtp.com might be a little better. R's, John
Re: CNAME records in place of A records
It's not a security thing. We do this with the the resellers who white label our VOIP. CNAMEs allow us to be flexible with our own hosts and infrastructure without having all of our resellers change DNS records. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review From: NANOG on behalf of Dovid Bender Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 5:07:26 AM To: NANOG Subject: CNAME records in place of A records Hi, Sorry if this is a bit OT. Recently several different vendors (in completely different fields) where they white label for us asked us to remove A records that we have going to them and replace them with CNAME records. Is there anything *going around* in the security aranea that has caused this?
RE: Pilot Fiber, Chicago Area: Impressions?
I've been working with Pilot for over a year. Great company and staff. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review Join our next Partner First Webinar on March 31st with Compliancy Group -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Shawn Ritchie Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 10:41 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Pilot Fiber, Chicago Area: Impressions? Pricing looks good, considering them for cheap backhaul as a tertiary path. Anybody have experience with them for just IP transit? -- Shawn
RE: WIKI documentation Software?
Confluence is good for small teams. Self-hosted is $10r. Plus addons we end up around $150/yr. Unfortunately, we outgrew it in terms of users. Additional users are way too expensive. [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:image003.png@01D5F9F6.301C26C0] 305.967.6756 x1009 | [cid:image004.png@01D5F9F6.301C26C0] 305.571.6272 [cid:image005.png@01D5F9F6.301C26C0] r...@oit.co<mailto:r...@oit.co> | [cid:image006.png@01D5F9F6.301C26C0]<https://www.oit.co/> www.oit.co<https://www.oit.co/> [cid:image007.png@01D5F9F6.301C26C0] oit.co/ray [Facebook]<https://go.oit.co/facebook> [LinkedIn]<https://go.oit.co/linkedin> [Twitter]<https://go.oit.co/twitter> [YouTube]<https://go.oit.co/youtube> How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review From: NANOG On Behalf Of Craig Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:34 AM To: Nicholas Oas ; nanog group Subject: Re: WIKI documentation Software? Lol, Sharepoint,,,. Arggg, yea NOT going to happen , We’ve managed to avoid using that. On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:50 AM Nicholas Oas mailto:nicholas@gmail.com>> wrote: Seconding Confluence. Stay away from Sharepoint. On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:09 AM Craig mailto:cvulja...@gmail.com>> wrote: Wanted to ask what WIKI software teams are using to save documentation to / how to's for staff, etc. pro's con's We have an older wiki bare-metal wiki server, that I want to get replaced before it kicks the bucket and was looking into various ones. thanks; CPV
RE: Poor mans TAP
Most smart switches do port mirroring. But I've had the predecessor to that tap for a few years. It has always worked well. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of John Kristoff Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 10:29 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Poor mans TAP On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 14:16:31 + Dovid Bender wrote: > Funds at my 9-5 are limited. Has anyone tried this and how well does > it work? We plan on mirroring about 800 megs of traffic at peak. > https://www.amazon.com/Dualcomm-1000Base-T-Ethernet-Regeneration-Netwo > rk/dp/B0055M5JL8?ref_=ast_bbp_dp I don't know if it still works on modern switches, but many years ago I was able to have Cisco LAN switches configured such that a single L2 MAC address could be statically associated with multiple interfaces (i.e. router interface). This made it possible to duplicate all traffic to destined to one station to appear on two (maybe more?) ports. You might try this also if you have an unused and available switch. John
RE: Contacts wanted: OVH, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft (Deutschland)
I originally held back on a similar response. But I had the exact same opinion. It works against your argument when you start off with insults and condescension. Personally, I would not refer anyone to someone making a post like this. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com<mailto:r...@orsiniit.com> TF: 844.OIT.VOIP http://www.orsiniit.com<http://www.orsiniit.com/> | Schedule a Call<https://orsiniit.as.me/?calendarID=1756688> From: NANOG On Behalf Of Tom Beecher Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:01 AM To: Ronald F. Guilmette Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Contacts wanted: OVH, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft (Deutschland) This entire thread could easily have been simply : "Hey all! I'm having some challenges reaching a live person in the abuse groups for X, Y, and Z. Can anyone help with a contact, or if anyone from those companies sees this, can you contact me off-list?" Calling everyone an idiot in the midst of Endless Pontification isn't really a recipe for success. On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:04 PM Ronald F. Guilmette mailto:r...@tristatelogic.com>> wrote: OVH, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft... Is there anybody awake and conscious at any of these places? I mean anybody who someone such as myself... just part of the Great Unwashed Masses... could actually speak to about a real and ongoing problem? Maybe most of you here will think that this is just a trivial problem, and one that's not even worth mentioning on NANOG. So be it. Make up you own minds. Here is the problem... For some time now, there has been an ongoing campaign of bitcoin extortion spamming going on which originates primarily or perhaps exclusively from IPv4 addresses owned by OVH and DigitalOcean. These scam spams have now been publicised in multiple places: https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/fake-cia-sextortion-scam/ Yea, that's just one place, I know, but there's also no shortage of people tweeting about this crap also, in multiple languages even! https://twitter.com/SpamAuditor/status/1107365604636278784 https://twitter.com/dvk01uk/status/1107510553621266433 https://twitter.com/bortzmeyer/status/1107737034049900544 https://twitter.com/ariestess69/status/1107468838596038656 https://twitter.com/bernhard_mahr/status/1107513313020297216 https://twitter.com/jzmurdock/status/1107679858945974272 https://twitter.com/gamamb/status/1107384186548207617 https://twitter.com/davidgsIoT/status/1107725201331097606 https://twitter.com/cybers_guards/status/1107675396076560384 https://twitter.com/ThatHostingCo/status/1107588660831105024 https://twitter.com/fladna9/status/1107554090765242368 https://twitter.com/JUSTADACHI/status/1107549777607184384 https://twitter.com/okhin/status/1107627379650908160 https://twitter.com/Purple_Wyrm/status/1107454618705887232 https://twitter.com/LadyOFyre/status/110734900550144 https://twitter.com/laurelvail/status/1107345980062523392 https://twitter.com/Alex__Rubio/status/1107595560440217600 The thing of it is that ALL of this crap... al of these scam spams... are quite obviously originating out of the networks of OVH and DigitalOcean. And it's not even all that hard to figure out where from, exactly and specifically. I generated the following survey, on the fly, last night, based on a simple reverse DNS scan of the evidently relevant addrdess ranges: https://pastebin.com/raw/WtM0Y5yC As anyone who isn't as blind as a bat can easily see, there's a bit of a pattern here. All of the spam source IPs are on just two ASNs: AS16276 - OVH SAS AS4061 - DigitalOcean, LLC It's equally clear that there have already been numerous reports about this ongoing and blatantly criminal activity that have been sent to the low-level high school dropout interns that these companies, like most others on the Internet these days, choose to employ as their first-level minions in their "not a profit center" abuse handling departments. So, guess what? Surprise, surprise! None of those clue-deprived flunkies have apparently yet managed to figure out that there's a pattern here. Duh!. As a result, the scamming and the spamming just go on and on and on, and the spammer-scammer just keeps on getting fresh new IP addresess on both of these networks... and fresh (and utterly free) new domain names from the equally careless company called Freenom. So, you know, I really would appreciate it if someone could either put me in touch with some actual sentient being at either OVH or DigitalOcean... assuming that any such actually exist... or at the very least, try to find one to whom clue may be passed about all this, because although these scam spams were kind of humorous and novel at first, the novelty has now worn off and they're really not all that funny anymore. Oh! And while we are on th
RE: ISP License in the USA?
Just to clarify. You don't need a SPIN (e-rate Service Provider Identification Number) to provide service to those entities. You only need a SPIN to qualify for USF/USAC funding for those entities. If they want to pay full price (which some do) you don't need the SPIN. Applying for a SPIN is extremely easy. Applying for e-rate funding, on the other hand, is usually best done via a consultant. Thankfully that's the customer's problem, not yours. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:25 PM To: Lorell Hathcock <lor...@hathcock.org> Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: ISP License in the USA? Not familiar with the process, but look at E-rate if you want to provide service to schools, libraries and health providers. On 05/31/16 13:14 -0500, Lorell Hathcock wrote: >NANOG: > >Our owner has hired a consultant who insists that we should have an ISP >license to operate in the United States. (Like they have in other >countries like Germany and in Africa where he has extensive personal >experience.) > >I am asking him to tell me which license we should have because I don't >know of a license that we are required to have to route IP traffic to >end customers. > >I am familiar with CLEC status filed with our state. But it is not a >requirement to pass traffic. > >He is suggesting COALS with which I am completely unfamiliar. > >Can anyone tell me if there is a Texas state and/or USA Federal license >for a small operator to pass IP traffic from the internet to end users >(commercial and/or residential). > >I am aware that there are some CALEA requirements of ISPs that seem to >kick in once a CALEA request is made, but is that different from a license. -- Dan White BTC Broadband
RE: Network traffic simulator
Siama also does this. I don't own any. But I've used them with some of my customers. http://siamasystems.com/?page_id=2280 Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:05 PM To: Mitchell Lewis <mitch...@dash-networks.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Network traffic simulator IXIA would be the only company I know of. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Mitchell Lewis <mitch...@dash-networks.com> wrote: > Hi,I am looking to validate the performance specs of a core router. I > am looking for a network traffic simulator which can simulate 40 gbps > of traffic. I am looking for a simulator with sfp+ ports. > I am interested in any input as to brands to look at, build one myself > etc. > Thanks,Mitchell
RE: Level 3 issues?
I'm having trouble reaching my Birch connection from Verizon and another Birch site. But no issues from FPL Fibernet which passes through Level3. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of David Hubbard Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 3:49 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Level 3 issues? Anyone seeing issues with Level 3 networking right now? We’re seeing huge latency and loss on traffic coming inbound (to us, AS33260) but it seems to be at the peering points with other major ISP’s and Level 3. Comcast for example: 333 ms21 ms70 ms te-3-5-ur01.hershey.pa.pitt.comcast.net [68.85.42.29] 4 * 33 ms 106 ms 162.151.48.173 5 214 ms54 ms41 ms 162.151.21.229 6 561 ms 764 ms 459 ms 4.68.71.133 Thanks, David
RE: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application
We deploy SonicWALL TZ300 or SOHO using Dell's Security as a Service. That way our monthly cost per customer is under $50 and includes all security services plus GMS centralized management. Works great with our VOIP service. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ken Chase Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 1:54 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application Looking around at different SMB firewalls to standardize on so we can start training up our level 2/3 techs instead of dealing with a mess of different vendors at cust premises. I've run into a few firewalls that were not sip or 323 friendly however, wondering what your experiences are. Need something cheap enough (certainly <$1k, <$500-750 better) that we are comfortable telling endpoints to toss current gear/buy additional gear. Basic firewalling of course is covered, but also need port range forwarding (not available until later ASA versions for eg was an issue), QoS (port/flow based as well as possibly actually talking some real QoS protocols) and VPN capabilities (not sure if many do without #seats licensing schemes which get irritating to clients). We'd like a bit of diagnostic capability (say tcpdump or the like, via shell preferred) - I realize a PFsense unit would be great, but might not have enough brand name recognition to make the master client happy plopping down as a CPE at end client sites. (I know, "there's only one brand, Cisco." ASA5506x is a bit $$ and licensing acrobatics get irritating for end customers.) /kc -- Ken Chase - Guelph Canada
RE: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
On our VOIP service we include US, Canada and Puerto Rico as "local" calling. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+ray=orsiniit@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Larry Sheldon Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 3:11 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences On 4/20/2016 10:15, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Apr 20, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei >> <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: >> >> On 2016-04-20 10:52, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >>> For the most part, “long distance” calls within the US are a thing >>> of the past and at least one mobile carrier now treats US/CA/MX as a >>> single local calling area >> >> >> Is this a case of telcos having switched to IP trunks and can reach >> other carriers for "free" >> >> Or are wholesale long distance still billed between carriers but at >> prices so low that they can afford to offer "free" long distance at >> retail level ? > > I think it boiled down to a recognition that the costs of billing were > beginning to account for something like $0.99 of every $1 billed. I wonder if the costs of avoiding-preventing-investigating toll fraud final grow to consume the profit in the product. I know that long ago there were things that I thought were insanely silly. A few examples: As an ordinary citizen I was amused and annoyed, in the case where a toll charge had been contested (and perforce refunded) there would often be several non-revenue calls to the protesting number asking whoever answered if they knew anybody in the called city, or if they knew who the called number belonged to. (Proper answer in any case: Who or what I know is none of your business.) Often there would calls to the called number (super irritating because the error was in the recording--later learned to be poor handwriting) asking the reciprocal questions except that often they had no idea that a call had been made. I was a Toll Transmissionman for a number or years back in the last iceage and one of the onerous tasks the supervisor had was "verifying the phone bill" which might be a stack as much as six inches tall. The evening shift supervisor (or one of them in a large office, like Los Angeles 1 Telegraph, where I worked for a while) would go through the bill, line by line, page by page, looking at the called number an d if he recognized it and placing a check mark next to it, If he did not recognize it, he would search the many lists in the office to see it was shown, and adding a check mark if a list showed it for a likely sounding legal call. If that didn't work he would probably have to call the number to see who answered (adding a wasted revenue-call path to the wreckage). Most often it would turn out to be the home telephone number of a repair supervisor in West Sweatsock, Montana, who had been called because a somebody who protested the policy that the repairman going fishing meant some problem would not be addressed for several days. So he put a check mark next to the number and moved on. Which meant the number would show up on the next month's bill. And it would again not be recognized from memory. And so forth and so on. Until eventually, after several months, the number would be recognized, check-marked without drama, and disappear forever from the bill. Lastly, in later years I was assigned to the the Revenue Accounting organization (to write programs for printing telephone books) and came to realize that there were a LOT of people in RA working with a LOT of people in the Chief Special Agents organization using a LOT of computer time to analyze Toll records for fraud patterns. Oops, not quite lastly Looking back at my Toll Plant days in the heyday of Captain Crunch--there were a lot engineering hours redesigning Toll equipment, and plant hours modifying or replacing equipment do defeat the engineering efforts of the Blue Box Boys. -- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert Einstein
RE: Best practices for sending network maintenance notifications
"The other "don't do that" is never configure Music on Hold for any NOC/SOC lines. Few things are more annoying than a eight hour trouble shooting conference bridge, and one of the dozen NOC/SOCs on the bridge hits the Hold button." Now that you've said it it seems so obvious. But, honestly I'd never thought it until right now. Thanks! Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 4:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Best practices for sending network maintenance notifications On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > My question for the group -- does anyone know if there's a "best > practices" > for sending maint notifications like this? An RFC sort of thing? It falls in the category of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Don't do that." Even the most dense CSR managers figure it out after a few attempts. The other "don't do that" is never configure Music on Hold for any NOC/SOC lines. Few things are more annoying than a eight hour trouble shooting conference bridge, and one of the dozen NOC/SOCs on the bridge hits the Hold button.
RE: Anyone from Verizon/MCI/UUNet ?
I'd watch that show! Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of chris Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 2:23 PM To: Randy Carpenter <rcar...@network1.net> Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Anyone from Verizon/MCI/UUNet ? Would be great to see a variation of the hoarders tv show where we track down hoarders of ipv4 :) Chris On Feb 19, 2016 2:19 PM, "Randy Carpenter" <rcar...@network1.net> wrote: > > We have a netblock that was assigned to us out of 65.192.0.0/11 a long > time ago. It has not been used in nearly a decade and still looks to > be assigned to us. I'd love to see it reclaimed and reused by someone > who needs it. Please contact me off list. > > thanks, > -Randy >
RE: SMS gateways
I can confirm that the device can send texts. I use the same 320U and 340U with AT and T-Mobile sims. Text is actually how they reset your account password if you need it. I use the prepaid plans. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mh...@ox.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 9:46 AM To: Adam Kennedy <adamkenn...@watchcomm.net>; Ray Orsini <r...@orsiniit.com> Cc: John Levine <jo...@iecc.com>; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: SMS gateways According to AT sales, the Netgear Beam is a "data-only" device and cannot send SMS when I just tried to order one. I wouldn't care what they thought, but they won't let me set up a plan that includes text. Anyone have any suggestions? Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff| Fax: 914-694-5669 > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Adam Kennedy > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:26 AM > To: Ray Orsini <r...@orsiniit.com> > Cc: John Levine <jo...@iecc.com>; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: SMS gateways > > It was some special offer on our AT small business site. Maybe they > were > $40 each. I wasn't the one that ordered them but I know they were > pretty cheap and so far working fine! > > > Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer > > Broadband Networks > > A Watch Communications Company > > PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 > > Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 > > adamkenn...@broadbandnetworks.com > > www.broadbandnetworks.com > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Ray Orsini <r...@orsiniit.com> wrote: > > > We use those a lot with mobile hotspots. Where did you find them for > $20? > > We > > usually pay about 2x that much for used untis. > > > > Regards, > > Ray Orsini – CEO > > Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH > > SECURITY SUPPORT > > P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP > > 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 > > http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices > > | View Your Tickets > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Adam > > Kennedy > > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 12:56 AM > > To: frnk...@iname.com > > Cc: John Levine <jo...@iecc.com>; nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: SMS gateways > > > > I picked up two of the AT "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE > network. > > Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units > > that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into > > a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to > > send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT Beam's > > were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our > > corporate plan. > > > > > > Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer > > > > Broadband Networks > > > > A Watch Communications Company > > > > PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 > > > > Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 > > > > adamkenn...@broadbandnetworks.com > > > > www.broadbandnetworks.com > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Adam Kennedy > > <adamkenn...@watchcomm.net> > > wrote: > > > > > I picked up two of the AT "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE > network. > > > Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units > > > that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those > > > into a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source > > > software to send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The > > > AT Beam's were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as > > > additional lines on our > corporate plan. > > > > > > > > > Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer > > > > > > Broadband Networks > > > > > > A Watch Communications Company > > > > > > PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 > > > > > > Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 > > > > > > a
RE: Inferring the location points of traffic exchange between two networks
The fastest way to get this information first-hand would be to set up a network in an emulator (GNS3, VIRL, PacketTracer, etc). There are hundreds of guides online to do this. Then you could do the same show commands and record the output. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Reza Motamedi Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:36 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Inferring the location points of traffic exchange between two networks Hi NANOG, I am researcher at the University of Oregon and my question is rather primitive. My research background is in networked systems and Internet measurement so I know how things work in theory. My question is about BGP and what can be inferred from the output of different "show" commands, regarding the point of traffic exchange of two networks with different ASNs. I tried going through the some samples on Juniper and Cisco documentations but I did not get my answer. Consider the following scenario; Say the point of traffic exchange between AS_a and AS_b is in San Francisco and we run "show bgp summary" and "show ip bgp "on a BGP router of AS_a in LA. Do we see the peering between AS_a and AS_b in San Francisco using any of the two commands. If yes is there a way to infer that in fact the traffic is not exchanged locally in LA? I think there should be a flag to differentiate records showing iBGP vs eBGP. On the same note, if we issue the commands on a router other than the border router in San Fran, is there any difference in the output of show commands? Now how are things different if we actually run the commands on that gateway router in SF? Best Regards Reza Motamedi (R.M) Graduate Research Fellow Oregon Network Research Group Computer and Information Science University of Oregon
RE: SMS gateways
We use those a lot with mobile hotspots. Where did you find them for $20? We usually pay about 2x that much for used untis. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Adam Kennedy Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 12:56 AM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: John Levine <jo...@iecc.com>; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SMS gateways I picked up two of the AT "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE network. Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT Beam's were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our corporate plan. Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer Broadband Networks A Watch Communications Company PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 adamkenn...@broadbandnetworks.com www.broadbandnetworks.com On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Adam Kennedy <adamkenn...@watchcomm.net> wrote: > I picked up two of the AT "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE network. > Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units that > makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into a > Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to send > SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT Beam's were $20 I > think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our corporate plan. > > > Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer > > Broadband Networks > > A Watch Communications Company > > PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 > > Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 > > adamkenn...@broadbandnetworks.com > > www.broadbandnetworks.com > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:38 PM, <frnk...@iname.com> wrote: > >> I plan to continue living in a rural area with a GSM provider that >> will support 2G. =) >> >> Frank >> >> -Original Message- >> From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] >> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 5:24 PM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Cc: frnk...@iname.com >> Subject: Re: SMS gateways >> >> In article <006501d14b31$7c478e40$74d6aac0$@iname.com> you write: >> >Surprised no one has mentioned the Multimodem iSMS: >> http://www.multitech.com/brands/multimodem-isms >> > >> >Been using it for 5+ years -- first three years the code wasn't >> >stable, >> needing a reboot every few months, >> >but the latest code has been stable for 2+ years. >> >> It looked interesting until I got to the part where it says it uses a >> 2G GSM modem. AT has said quite firmly that they will turn off >> their 2G network in 2017, and press reports say that T-Mobile is >> already turning off 2G in favor of LTE. >> >> What do you plan to do instead next year? >> >> >> >> >
RE: Best Source for ARIN Region /24
Ditto here. Seems like Matthew beat me to the question Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Matthew D. Hardeman Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 2:19 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Best Source for ARIN Region /24 I’m looking to buy a /24 of space for a new multi-homed network in the ARIN region. Can anyone out there speak to going rates for a /24 and best places to shop?
RE: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
On one hand I want to give Legere some credit for addressing the publicity himself. On the other hand, he sounds like a complete fool doing it. I wish I would've been on Periscope at the time. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA BANDWIDTH SECURITY SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Calendar | View/Pay Your Invoices | View Your Tickets -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Slabbert Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 12:12 PM To: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan. On Thu 2016-Jan-07 22:43:20 -0500, Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: >So we went round and round back in November regarding Binge On! and >whether it was net neutrality. So here's some closure to that... > >The EFF did some testing and discovered that what T-Mobile is actually >doing doesn't match what they said it was... > >https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles-bingeon-op >timization-just-throttling-applies > >Apparently, John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, doesn't know who the EFF is, >or why they're giving him a hard time. > >"Part B of my answer is, who the fuck are you, anyway, EFF?" Legere >said. "Why are you stirring up so much trouble, and who pays you?" > >http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10733298/john-legere-binge-on-lie > >/me makes popcorn And I'm sorry, but this line from Legere had me raging at my screen: "There are people out there saying we’re “throttling.” They’re playing semantics! Binge On does NOT permanently slow down data nor remove customer control. Here’s the thing, mobile customers don’t always want or need giant heavy data files. So we created adaptive video technology to optimize for mobile screens and stream at a bitrate designed to stretch your data (pssst, Google, that's a GOOD thing)."[1] ...so...you're "optimizing" the bitrate of video traffic for mobile by lowering it to 1.5 mbps, but don't worry: it's not "throttling". And you're accusing the "other guys" of playing semantics? Beside pure marketing doublespeak, I don't even know what actual logic he's using here. Apparently it's only "throttling" if it *permanently* slows down traffic, and BingeOn somehow doesn't do that (besides what the EFF is putting forward)? Is it because even though it's enabled by default, there is still an "off" switch, and therefore user choice is maintained (though probalby not obvious to most consumers)? Listen: I have no issue with doing shaping or traffic prioritization or whatever as your customer asks for it; we offer that as an option to customers to get the most out of their connections and I'm sure many of you do as well. But: 1) Those are done at the request of the customer, not opt-out. 2) Be honest about what you're doing. T-Mobile seems to be trying to spin this as if they have some magical technology that will re-encode streaming video on the fly to 480p, when really they're just ID-ing video and rate-limiting it (when it comes to video that doesn't match their technical requirements doc and doesn't do ABR down to 480p on the sending side). Fine: just getting decent accuracy on various edge cases of identifying video traffic isn't trivial, so kudos, but don't blow smoke about it. If Legere has some info about how this truly at a technical level is not just rate limiting, then show us that info. Yes: I've read the "Content Provider Technical Requirements" doc[2] that talks about adaptive bitrate tech on the sending side: "The content provider will provide video over T‐Mobile’s network using adaptive bit rate technology in which the server sending streaming video content will automatically adapt video resolution of the stream based on the capabilities of the data connection or as otherwise indicated by the T‐Mobile network." But, that's for the content folks that are participating in the BingeOn setup for zero-rating. The EFF's data indicates that if you're just a random video stream (or video media type file), you get rate limited. With all of this said, I appreciate the challenge of getting something like this implemented at scale without going opt-out. T-Mo is going for a PR win as well as, let's be honest, reducing network utilization by reducing the bitrate of video crossing the network, but it's *highly* unlikely that you're going to get enough critical mass in an opt-in effort to pull it off. To T-Mo's credit, they're making the opt-out quite simple, but let's be clear that this is not a net neutral move if we go by the commonly accepted definitions: "The idea is that a
