Tag: AS1299

30 years: Wild west to wild ride!

Ever since Arelion’s fiber network, AS1299 was born in 1993, it has been a critical part of the Internet’s core infrastructure. In this blog, Arelion’s Chief Evangelist, Mattias Fridström reminiscences about the technologies, milestones and odd things that happened during these 30 years.

Rethinking Internet Backbone Architectures

During the past couple of years, we’ve made several public ad-hoc announcements on technology transitions that keep us busy building and operating the world’s #1 Internet Backbone. This has been done without ever providing a context or connection to the trends believed to be fueling the industry going forward and the path we’ve taken to […]

State of the Internet

Telia Carrier’s global Internet backbone, AS1299, accounts for nearly 60 percent of global Internet routes. Being a leader in its field entails plenty of responsibilities. For us, it implies duties for every customer…
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COVID-19: Network Trends and Modelling

The world’s undoubtably going through an extremely difficult time in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, causing unimaginable suffering to so many people. It is also, perhaps more than ever before, highlighting the essential role of the Internet as the means for people to keep in touch with loved ones, stay updated on the latest […]

Dropping RPKI invalid prefixes

Telia Carrier/AS1299 is now as the first tier-1 dropping RPKI invalid prefixes from both customers & peers. We’re hoping for more networks and operators to join us for a more resilient and stable Internet. Our customers can continue to use RTBH functionality (if enabled for their service) for validated prefixed just as before. We have […]