My parents acquired a Samsung SmartTV a year ago without paying much attention on the ‘smarts’ of the device. A few weeks ago, after a (never ending) family lunch at their home, I started to play with their new TV and configured the SmartTV section. Only after them alerting menot to break anything, they suddenly discovered a window to a brand new world that I just enabled. How long did it take last time they tried to unsuccessfully connect their laptop? With the magic of the SmartTV button, they found an easy way to connect to Internet content, VoD and even family pictures, although the system is still far from perfect.

If there’s one thing that transforms my city every year it is Mobile World Congress. For one week, MWC is at the very top of the agenda for all press, politicians, hotels, restaurants, taxis and unfortunately even pickpockets! And of course, 1,500 exhibitors and over 67,000 visitors from 205 countries have a positive impact to the city.

When the automotive industry found out, in the middle of the 60s, that most of their customers weren't particularly happy to drive the exact same vehicle as everyone else, this started a revolutionary change. Luxury cars had this problem solved with their traditional approach of almost hand-made models, but of course not everyone could afford that. The conventional manufacturers adopted a new concept: mass customisation.

The industry has been talking widely about network monetisation, but little evidence has been provided. I’ve also wrote several blogs on this topic too, but now is a good time to talk about that again as Juniper Networks has some great news to share.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) was one of the world’s first Internet Exchange Points. As a place where settlement free peering has always been at the very top of the agenda, having a low latency network with high levels of resiliency is essential. Since our beginnings with a single switch in 1994, LINX has grown to become one of the largest IXPs in the world, with a network that covers more than 80% of the global routing table.

Finding a solution to take the network into the future was a significant challenge.

With massive growth in port and bandwidth requirements driving the need for a complete review our existing network architecture, we knew this was going to be the biggest project LINX had ever undertaken in terms of scale, complexity and risk.

We needed to assure carrier-grade levels of performance, resilience and support as we established a platform for the next era of IXP services. In particular, we had realised that our ring-based architecture would not scale to meet our future service and capacity needs.