Nicolas Fischbach

So what you might say? Well, it’s some sort of an achievement as it required a combination of a number of small and not so small things: my laptop was using its IPv6 stack, my web browser behaved properly, the local wireless LAN didn’t break it and handed it over to Colt’s network, it went across [...] Read more

Historically most Service Providers, especially for their business offerings, have been installing multiple devices on customer premises to deliver Internet access or IPVPN services over diverse WAN transport technologies. Beyond the higher unit cost and more complex service delivery and assurance, this additional CPE router also constrained customer services. Colt Technology Services has partnered with Juniper [...] Read more

Luke Broome, Colt’s CTO, recently said “Investing into network programmability is an important step towards delivering integrated network and compute services and helps keep Colt at the forefront of innovation. This evolving model brings the network closer to the applications and will enable our customers to flex and consume their managed IT and network services in [...] Read more

IPv4 address exhaustion is growing in people’s minds. Internet Society recently announced IPv6 Launch Day (June 6th 2012!), but nothing new, as there’s been much activity in recent years and many service providers like Colt have been very active in preparing their networks, systems and products to support IPv6! As well as manage the IPv4/IPv6 coexistence [...] Read more

It's World IPv6 Day today, where some major web companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo will be testing their services over IPv6 and help promote it. At Colt we're enabling IPv6 access to our website and we've also created some top tips for CIOs on IPv6. 1.    Be prepared: the sky isn’t falling, but if [...] Read more