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The Internet Routing System Is Finally Getting Secure — Here's What Took So Long
BGP was built without security in mind. Four decades later, RPKI is the cryptographic fix finally reaching critical mass.
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Private 5G Networks Are Moving From Pilots to Production — Here's What's Actually Getting Deployed
Enterprise 5G is past the proof-of-concept stage. Factories, ports, and hospitals are running live private networks on CBRS spectrum — here's who's deploying, why Wi-Fi 7 doesn't replace it, and what it actually costs.
Internet & Network
Wi-Fi 7 in the Real World: What 46 Gbps Actually Means for Your Home Network
Wi-Fi 7 routers have been on sale since early 2024, but the standard only became widespread in 2025. Two years of real-world deployments tell a clearer story than any spec sheet: what actually changes, what stays the same, and whether it's worth upgrading from Wi-Fi 6E.
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Internet & Network
TCP Was Too Broken to Fix, So the Internet Built a New Protocol on Top of UDP
QUIC — the transport protocol originally developed by Google and now standardized by the IETF — powers HTTP/3 and runs under roughly half of all web traffic. Here's why the web needed a new foundation and what changed when it got one.
Internet & Network
HTTP/3 now carries a third of the web — and QUIC is just getting started
HTTP/3 runs on QUIC, a UDP-based transport that solves TCP's core limitations: head-of-line blocking, expensive TLS handshakes, and broken connections during mobile network handoffs. Google serves over 90% of its requests over QUIC today. Here is what the protocol actually does and what web developers need to know.
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Internet & Network
BGP Is 35 Years Old and Still Holds the Internet Together — Here's Why That's a Problem
The Border Gateway Protocol routes traffic between every autonomous network on the internet. It was designed in 1989 on two napkins and was never meant to be a security system. Three decades later, BGP hijacks still knock major services offline — and the fix is only now being deployed.
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Internet & Network
Wi-Fi 7 Is Here. Your ISP Is Still the Bottleneck.
Wi-Fi 7 routers are shipping with multi-gigabit speeds and multi-link operation. But until your ISP connection catches up, most of the upgrade is headroom you can't use. Here's what Wi-Fi 7 actually delivers — and what it doesn't.
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Internet & Network
How Starlink's Direct-to-Cell Service Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Rural Connectivity
No new phone required. No app to install. Just a satellite icon appearing in your status bar when terrestrial cell coverage runs out. Starlink's Direct-to-Cell — commercially live since July 2025 — has quietly become the largest 4G coverage footprint on Earth, and the race to follow it is accelerating.
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Internet & Network
HTTP/3 Adoption Plateaued at 21% — Here's the Physics Behind the Stall
Five years after QUIC shipped with universal browser support, only 21% of web traffic actually uses HTTP/3. The reason isn't inertia — it's that the protocol's benefits reverse on fast networks.
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Internet & Network
IPv6 Now Carries Over 50% of Global Internet Traffic — Here's What That Threshold Actually Changes
For the first time, more than half of all internet traffic is flowing over IPv6. After two decades of slow migration, the tipping point has arrived — and it has concrete implications for network operators, developers, and anyone who manages infrastructure.
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Internet & Network
BGP Hijacking Remains a Structural Flaw in Internet Routing — RPKI Adoption Is the Fix
Border Gateway Protocol was designed in 1989 with zero security assumptions. Thirty-seven years later, BGP hijacking still knocks major services offline and reroutes sensitive traffic through adversarial networks. RPKI cryptographic route validation is the proven remedy — but adoption sits below 50% of global prefixes.
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BGP hijacking is still breaking the internet — and RPKI is the fix most ISPs haven't deployed yet
The protocol that routes all internet traffic was designed in 1989 with no built-in authentication. RPKI is the cryptographic fix that's been available for years, but less than half of the internet has turned it on — and the consequences keep showing up as outages and traffic interceptions.
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