Connection Management

Most Internet Service Providers advertise their performance in terms of downstream throughput.  The “speed” that one pays for reflects, effectively, the number of bits per second that can be...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2013/06/21/the-visible-effects-and-hidden-sources-of-internet-latency/

On March 27, 2013 at 6:20 a.m. UTC, the SeaMeWe-4 cable outage affected connectivity across the world.  SeaWeMe-4 is currently the largest submarine cable connecting Europe and Asia.  The Renes...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2013/05/28/the-resilience-of-internet-connectivity-in-east-and-south-africa-a-case-study/

Have you ever wondered how many sites have your credit card number?  Or, have you ever wondered how many sites have a certain version of your password?  Do you think you might have reused the p...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2013/03/01/its-10-p-m-do-you-know-where-your-passwords-are/

Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel at the Broadband Breakfast Club in downtown Washington, DC.  The panel was organized by BroadbandBreakfast.com, an policy and news organizatio...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2013/02/26/making-sense-of-data-caps-and-tiered-pricing-in-broadband-and-mobile-networks/

Networking and security research often rely on a notion of ground truth to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution.  “Ground truth” refers to a true underlying phenomenon that we would li...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2013/02/08/internet-relativism/

This past week I was interviewed on the evening news about Egypt’s decision to cut itself off from the Internet, and whether we might ever see something similar in the United States, in light o...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2011/02/04/could-we-ever-see-an-internet-kill-switch/

Tonight, I am sitting on an panel sponsored by NSF and Discover Magazine about “The New Internet”.  The panel has four panelists who will be discussing their thoughts on the future of the In...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2010/09/28/software-defined-networking-and-the-new-internet/

I began working on Internet censorship nearly ten years ago, when Professors Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger talked about users who were behind the “Great Firewall of China” and their need...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2010/08/17/internet-censorship-then-and-now/

Commencement time brings commencement speeches; one of my favorite commencement speeches is a speech by Robert Krulwich at Caltech in 2008, where he discusses the importance of storytelling in sc...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2010/05/12/tell-me-a-story/

One of my friends recently pointed me to this post about network data. The author states that one of the things he will miss the most about working at Google is the access to the tremendous amoun...

https://connectionmanagement.org/2010/04/27/show-me-the-data/