A central London network node belonging to BT disastrously flooded and caught fire yesterday.
The incident at Burne House in north Paddington affected landlines, broadband and mobile services across the west of London. Over 400 local exchanges are connected from this site, so connectivity was also affected across the south east and further afield.
“The flood water has been removed from the exchange building overnight and power supply has begun to be restored,” BT said this morning.
“We are now beginning to restore communications services to customers and this work will continue throughout the day.”
The impact of the great torrent/inferno was even felt on the continent. There have been reports that roaming for Vodafone, O2 and 3 customers in Austria is currently down, with operators pointing the finger at Paddington.
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2020Media has begun its roll out of IPv6 address space.
Our IPv6 range, 2a00:19e8::/32 is now active and our technical staff have received RIPE training.
A /32 by the way equates to a mind-boggling number of internet IP addresses – 18,446,744,073,709,552,000! Customers can expect to receive /64 addresses (2ˆ64 ip numbers).
The imminent end of the Internet as we know it approaches – our IPv4 addresses are running out fast. Less than 10% of the original 4 billion remain. Internet service providers will have to ration their stocks of existing address blocks and growth will become more difficult.
The solution? IPv6 addresses are plentiful and easy to obtain. The problem is that the transition is already years behind of schedule.
Having completed internal testing and analysis, we’re delighted to announce that 2020Media will be rolling out IPv6 in 2010 to both hosting and broadband customers.
Problems still exist though: For instance, at the time of writing, there are NO consumer broadband modems that support IPv6. And of the top 500 websites (tracked by Alexa), only 1 supports Ipv6.
So even if you can get connected via IPv6, chances are you won’t be able to see any websites!
2020Media is participating in an ISOC project to map and present data on the takeup of IPv6 by the worlds leading websites and companies. More information on our plans.
If you’ve ever wondered how DNS works, and the technical explanations make your head spin, there’s a great new video on YouTube that cuts out the jargon and shows you what happens when you type a domain name into your browser, or send an email.
The video was produced by CENTR, a european trade association for all the european domain registries.
If you’re interested in getting more domain names, in different extensions, 2020Media is able to obtain them for you. Contact us, and we’ll be able to help.
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The imminent end of the Internet as we know it approaches – our IPv4 addresses are running out fast. Less than 10% of the original 4 billion remain. Internet service providers will have to ration their stocks of existing address blocks and growth will become more difficult.