The Pirate Bay, bane to Hollywood, is in the process of being acquired by a Swedish gaming company called “Global Gaming Factory X AB” (GGF) for 60M Swedish Kroner ($7.8M dollars) – 30M in cash, and 30M in stock.  To put that in perspective, the fine levied against the four defendants in the Pirate Bay [...]

Just a quick open-thread post for all of you in San Francisco attending Cisco Live! (a.k.a. Cisco Networkers.) If you’re attending, let us know what you think in our comments section. And if you’d like to talk to us in person, NetQoS can be found at booth #807.

Here’s one of the big problems with experimenting to find a faster, more robust Internet architecture: Since there isn’t another computer network out there as big as the Internet, when you want to make grand changes to the way the Internet works, what do you test it out on before deploying? This is a real [...]

When Cisco Live! (a.k.a. Cisco Networkers) starts up next week, every vendor is going to try to get you to their booth, learning about their products, and telling their stories. We’re no different. I would like to take this time to point out that all the cool kids are going to booth 807 this year, [...]

It’s not a particularly controversial statement that most of what we go through at the airport in the name of “security” is in actuality, “security theater,” as security expert Bruce Schneier wrote in “Beyond Fear.” Security theater measures are measures that don’t actually have any real effect or purpose towards keeping us safe, but they [...]

Cisco Live! a.k.a. “Cisco Networkers” is going to start the week after next on June 27th, and I thought it might be time to start plugging our appearance at the—wait a minute… “Cisco Systems.” Based in San Francisco. Oh my god.  I just got that. I feel like such an idiot now.  Really – I [...]

Recently, Chandra Hosek, who maintains the NetQoSLive Twitter account located to the left of this blog-post, unless you’re reading it sometime in the far future after which we may have redesigned the site meaning it could be anywhere on the page, or even replaced by a service even more twitter-like than Twitter, or perhaps you’re [...]

There have been many jokes about the irrelevance of Twitter – or at least about the irrelevance of much of the content on Twitter. Some of them have been amazingly creative and funny, like the Tonight Show’s “Twitter Tracker,” and some of them not funny at all, like any of the jokes we’ve made on [...]