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Person listing
Stephan Schroeder
CEO
Stephan brings 20+ years of experience in the international telecommunication ecosystem. He held leading positions in global wholesale companies, in telco-related software firms and boutique private equity.
Ingmar Poese
CTO
He's the co-founder of BENOCS and the brains behind our core-data model and IP/patent base: Ingmar has a PhD in computer science and has published several research papers focused on IP-traffic optimization at scale.
Phillip Urbanik
CPO
Phillip is an enthusiastic technologist whose out-of-the-box ideas make an impact in the connectivity industry. His passion for technology and innovation drives him to continually kickstart new projects and test the boundaries of what is possible.
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Events
May 6, 2025
RIPE 90
Next week, from May 12-16, BENOCS Co-Founder and CTO Ingmar Poese, Customer Success Manager Péter György, and Daniel Sosnowski, DevOps Engineer at BENOCS, are off to beautiful Lisbon to attend RIPE 90.
Events
April 10, 2025
Matching routes to traffic levels at EPF 2025
Next week at Global Peering Forum in Denver, Stephan Schroeder will give some insight into identifying asymmetrical traffic, which, if left unremedied, can cause latency and performance issues, load-balancing problems, routing instability and poor quality of service.
Events
April 8, 2025
Global Peering Forum
We are excited to be heading over to Colorado, USA, next week for this year's Global Peering Forum. We are more than excited to announce that we are also first-time sponsors of the event this year!
Events
March 19, 2025
Peering Days - Matching routes to traffice levels
ICYMI: Péter György is heading over to Croatia to attend Peering Days 2025 next week. While there he will present “Forward Path: Matching routes to traffic levels” on Thursday, March 27, just before the lunch break at 12:10pm. Be sure to check it and all the other presentations out! https://lnkd.in/d99t-ffZ
Events
March 18, 2025
Peering Days 2025
Peering Days is coming up next week and Péter György drew the lucky card! From March 25-27 he will be in beautiful Croatia to take part in the 2025 edition of Peering Days. While there he will present “Forward Path: Matching routes to traffic levels” on Thursday, March 27, just before the lunch break at …
Events
March 3, 2025
APAN 59 - Use cases for NRENs
Hot on the heels of this year’s APRICOT, Stephan Schroeder in exchanging the tropics for the more temperate climate of Japan this week. From March 3-7, Stephan is looking forward to connecting with the NREN crowd at APAN 59. While there, he will present some analytics use cases of interest to the community.
Events
February 27, 2025
APAN 59
After APRICOT wraps up this week, Stephan Schroeder will extend his stay in Asia to head up to Japan to attend APAN59 in Yokohama. It’s our first time taking part in APAN, so we are pretty excited about it – it will also be the first time in 10 years that an APAN meeting has …
Blog posts
February 19, 2025
How monitoring tools can lead you astray (and why BENOCS won’t)
When monitoring your network traffic, you rely on tools to provide precise, actionable data. But what if some tools “lie” – not out of malice, but due to hidden methodologies that mask the truth? Let’s uncover how certain practices can lead to inaccurate traffic analyses.
Events
February 18, 2025
APRICOT
Let’s talk about… APRICOT! Next week BENOCS CEO Stephan Schroeder, as well as Hari Jayaraman, Manager Sales & Strategy, will head to Petaling Jaya in tropical Malaysia to take part in APRICOT 2025. What’s more, we are proud to be sponsoring the event! Drop by and visit us at booth 19 to learn about all …
Events,Research Papers
January 28, 2025
Ingress Point Detection at NANOG 93
One week from today, on Tuesday February 4 at 3:00pm, BENOCS CTO Ingmar Poese will present to the #NANOG community the findings of his co-authored research on Ingress Point Detection (IPD) in ISPs. Ingmar will be presenting remotely. Join Hari Jayaraman live and in color at NANOG 93 for a chat about current developments in …
Events
January 22, 2025
NANOG 93
From February 3 – 5 in Atlanta, USA, Hari Jayaraman will attend NANOG 93 and is looking forward to hearing about what’s happening in the North American telco community. Also during the event, Ingmar Poese will hold a remote talk to present the findings on Ingress Point Detection (IPD). Check out the agenda here: https://lnkd.in/eHmtSsU9 …
Events
November 13, 2024
DENOG 16
From November 17-19, Stephan Schroeder, Phillip Urbanik and Péter György will attend DENOG 16 in our home base of Berlin.
Research Papers
November 5, 2024
The Roots Go Deep
Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD is attending IMB 24 with Florian Steurer, who today presented their joint paper "The Roots Go Deep: Resiliency of ‘.’ Under Change".
Research Papers
October 30, 2024
Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs
RIPE 89 is underway in Prague and in between plenty of conversations with familiar as well as new faces, Ingmar Poese also presented his co-authored paper “IPD: Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs”. Take a look at the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dR95sEbw
Events
October 29, 2024
Peering Asia
For the first time ever we are Gold sponsors of Peering Asia! On November 6 and 7 Hari and Stephan will be in Jakarta to catch up with the APAC peering community.
Events
October 22, 2024
RIPE 89
While Hari is in Toronto at NANOG, Ingmar Poese and Péter György are both busy preparing to visit RIPE89 in Prague next week. On Tuesday, October 29, in the plenary session at 11:00 am, Ingmar will present the paper: **IPD: Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs**, which proposes an efficient approach that accurately identifies traffic …
Events
October 16, 2024
IMC 24
The program for this years' Internet Measurement Conference ist now online! The paper "The Roots Go Deep: Resiliency of ‘.’ Under Change", co-authored by BENOCS Senior Network Engineer Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD, will be presented at the event.
Events
October 14, 2024
NANOG 92
Next week Hari Jayaraman is jetting off to Canada to attend NANOG 92 in Toronto. Drop us a line to schedule a meeting with him!
Case Studies
September 30, 2024
How SURF reduced the indirect traffic of a CDN from 58% to 20%
SURF, the national research and education network of The Netherlands, had held a direct interconnect with a well-renowned CDN since 2019. At the end of 2023 the IP Transit providers of SURF changed, causing 48% of the CDN traffic to travel indirectly through one of the new transit providers. With BENOCS, SURF optimized their peering strategy and saved significant costs on their IP-Transit.
Events
September 24, 2024
FCN 2024
This Friday, Sep 27, Ingmar Poese will give a talk at Future Computing and Networking Workshop in Hanover, Germany. Entitled "From Research to Business", his talk will give the participants insight into the devlopment of BENOCS from its beginnings as a research project into the company it is today.
Events
September 9, 2024
European Peering Forum
We are really excited to be sponsoring European Peering Forum again this year! 🎉 Next week Stephan Schroeder, Aitor Mendaza-Ormaza, Péter György and Hari Jayaraman will be in Vienna to catch up with the European peering community. Come and visit us at our booth or get in touch beforehand if you’d like to set up …
Events
August 14, 2024
Asia Peering Forum
Next Wednesday, August 21 at 11:35am local time, Hari Jayaraman will present at Asia Peering Forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His presentation, entitled “Forward path – matching routes to traffic levels”, will visualize indirect peering routes and assymmetrical traffic paths and the impact these have on networks.
Events,Research Papers
July 16, 2024
SIGCOMM 2024
Exciting news! A research paper co-authored by BENOCS co-founder and CTO, Ingmar Poese, has been accepted at this year's SIGCOMM, taking place from August 4-8 in Sydney, Australia.
Events
June 5, 2024
TNC 24
Next week we are excited to be sponsoring TNC 24 in Rennes and are looking forward to meeting up with the European NREN community once more.
Events
May 16, 2024
RIPE 88
It's (already) that time again - RIPE88 is happening next week in Krakow. Stephan, our CEO, and Hari (Manager Sales & Strategy) will be joined by our CTO and co-founder Ingmar, as well as Aitor, our product manager.
Events
May 15, 2024
TMA 2024
Next week our senior network engineer, Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD, is off to Dresden to the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA Conference 2024). There he will take part in an exciting program surrounding topics on network function virtualization, software-defined networks, content distribution networks, and a whole bunch more.
Events
May 13, 2024
ANGA COM
It's time for the broadband and media community to come together again for the 2024 edition of ANGA COM in Cologne. Stephan will be around on day 1 (May 14) and Shankar Mondal will on the ground Wednesday and Thursday.
Events
April 22, 2024
SANOG 41
In a few days, Hari will take off, bound for India and SANOG41, taking place from April 29-30 in Mumbai. We are excited to be sponsoring the event for the very first time and can’t wait to meet up with the South Asian network operations and communications services community. Will we see you there?
Press Releases
March 12, 2024
NetCologne chooses BENOCS for its network intelligence
Cologne-based internet provider NetCologne has chosen BENOCS to intelligize the network analytics for its IP-network. With BENOCS’ help, NetCologne plans to optimize their network traffic, saving costs and further increasing satisfaction among their 485,000-strong customer base.
Events
February 20, 2024
APRICOT 2024
For the first time ever, BENOCS is a proud sponsor of APRICOT! From February 27 until March 1, we will be in Bangkok, Thailand, with our good friends MarvelTec and can't wait to find out what's happening in the APNIC community.
Events
February 5, 2024
NANOG 90
Next week Hari is off to Charlotte, USA, to attend NANOG 90. Get in touch with us or him directly to arrange a meeting to find out about the latest at BENOCS.
Blog posts
January 3, 2024
Towards application identification with a novel DNS-based approach
In order to work efficiently, network operators need better knowledge on how traffic from the CDNs and OTT-Applications is delivered to their end-users. Focussing on obtaining information only about Autonomous Systems (ASes), transit providers, and peers is not enough to answer one key question: how do OTT-Applications use the different CDN domains to distribute their traffic?
Events
November 22, 2023
RIPE 87
It's happening! Next week we are off to RIPE 87 in the ancient city of Rome. Stephan, Ingmar, Hari and Falk are all looking forward to catching up with and finding out the latest from the networking community.
Events
November 16, 2023
DENOG 15
Next week, Péter, Hari, Phillip and our newest team member, Aitor Mendaza-Ormaza, will be travelling all the way across town to the Estrel Convention Center to attend DENOG15.
Events
November 1, 2023
IEEE NFV-SDN 2023
Come and meet us at IEEE NFV-SDN next week in Dresden, where Ingmar Poese and Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD will give a demo entitled:
"𝘋𝘕𝘚 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘳 (𝘋𝘍𝘈): 𝘈 𝘋𝘕𝘚-𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘊𝘋𝘕 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘛𝘛-𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴".
Danny is also part of the Technical Program Committee of the Doctoral Symposium (a co-located event).
Events
October 25, 2023
IETF 118
From November 4, Andreas Henning will be in Prague for IETF 118. He'll be there for the whole week, on November 6 Ingmar Poese and Danny A. Lachos will also join him for the day.
Events
October 11, 2023
Capacity Europe 2023
We’re off to lovely London! Next week from October 16 Stephan, Péter and Rebecca will be attending Capacity Europe to meet old and new friends in the telco industry. Stop by our booth (no. 323) and say hello!
Events
October 10, 2023
NANOG 89
Looking forward to NANOG 89 next week in San Diego, USA! Give us a shout if you’re there too and want to find out all the latest about BENOCS Analytics. Hari will be happy to chat with you. 😀
Events
October 3, 2023
MobiCom 2023
Right now Ingmar Poese is in Madrid soaking up the very interesting program (and possibly some sun) at MobiCom 2023. You can take a look at the program here: https://lnkd.in/ekXReVfK
Events
September 28, 2023
LACNIC 40
Next week, from October 2-6, Hari Jayaraman will be in Fortaleza, Brazil, to attend LACNIC40. He’s looking forward to some interesting presentations, as well as finding out more about the wishes and needs of our Latin American and Caribbean customers! Please reach out to us if you’d like to schedule a meeting with him and …
Events
August 28, 2023
European Peering Forum
Summer break is over and we can't wait to get to Prague next month for European Peeting Forum. The event is an absolute must for peering folks and we are thrilled to be a part of it. We are sponsoring the event, so please drop by our booth and let Stephan Schroeder, Hari Jayaraman or Péter György give you a demo of BENOCS Analytics!
Events
August 27, 2023
NL-ix Late Summer Drink
It’s that’s time of year again: networking and sunset drinks beachside in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Once again our friends from NL-ix are putting on the Late Summer Drink and we are happy to not only attend but also proud to be sponsors of the event. Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and also new …
Events
June 30, 2023
IEEE NetSoft 2023 review
From June 19-23, BENOCS senior network engineer Danny A. Lachos Perez attended IEEE NetSoft 2023 and had this to say: “The IEEE NetSoft is the flagship annual conference on Network Softwarization, and I had the opportunity to represent BENOCS at its 9th edition held in Madrid, Spain last week. I attended inspiring Keynote Talks, technical presentations, and …
Events
June 16, 2023
IEEE NetSoft 2023
Exciting week coming up for our colleague Danny A. Lachos Perez. From Monday, Danny will be taking part in IEEE NetSoft 2023 in Madrid, Spain. The event includes co-located workshops: BENOCS is industry track chair and also on the technical program committee of the Intent-Based Networking workshop (WIN’2023) on June 19. At the workshop, Danny will chair …
Events
June 14, 2023
TNC23
In the first week of June, Hari attended TNC23 in Albania, a first for us here at BENOCS: “It was an eye-opening experience attending my first TNC in Tirana, Albania and listening to all the NRENs from different parts of the world such as GÉANT, NORDUnet, SUNET, CANARIE, UbuntuNet Alliance and many more. A common theme I noticed among all …
Blog posts
June 6, 2023
Happy birthday, BENOCS!
It's time to celebrate! BENOCS turns 10 years old in June. We spoke to BENOCS CTO and co-founder Ingmar Poese to learn about the early days and his experiences since co-founding the company back in 2013.
Events
June 6, 2023
ETIS Community Gathering
While Hari is in Tirana taking part in TNC23, our colleague Péter György has taken a trip across town to attend the ETIS community gathering taking place today and tomorrow in Berlin. There he will talk about sustainability in telecoms and how, with BENOCS Analytics, you can save resources (and, well, money) in your network. …
Events
June 5, 2023
TNC23
This week we are excited to be taking part in TNC23, hosted by RASH – Academic Network of Albania! Hari Jayaraman is this week in Tirana learning more about the NREN community and finding out how BENOCS can help them optimize their networks. Please come and say hi! Big thanks to GÉANT for organizing the event!
Events
May 16, 2023
RIPE 86
It’s one of our highlights of the yearly conference calendar: It’s RIPE time! Next week, a whole bunch of us will hit Rotterdam for RIPE 86 and we can’t wait to mingle and learn about the latest issues affecting the RIPE community. BENOCS is not only Silver Sponsor of the event (come and say hi …
Events
May 10, 2023
International Telecoms Weeks
From May 14-17, BENOCS CEO Stephan Schroeder and our business development colleague Hari Jayaraman will be in the US of A to attend ITW 2023. They are looking forward to seeing customers and partners, as well as meeting new connections in the telco community.
Events
April 14, 2023
NDSI '23
BENOCS CTO Ingmar Poese will take a trip across the pond to Boston to participate in NDSI ’23, the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. During the technical sessions on Wednesday, April 19, a research paper Ingmar co-authored with Tobias Bühler, Romain Jacob, and Laurent Vanbever, all from ETH Zürich, entitled “Enhancing Global Network Monitoring with …
Events
April 13, 2023
11th SIG-NGN Meeting
Next week our senior network engineer Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD is off to Prague to attend both the LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting #50 hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics (April 18-19) and the 11th SIG-NGN Meeting (April 20), co-hosted by both the academy and GÉANT.
Press Releases
October 6, 2022
M247 to utilize BENOCS solutions for network visibility and business optimization
Leading connectivity and cloud services company M247 has chosen BENOCS to visualize and monitor its network. With BENOCS Analytics, M247 enjoys full visibility of end-to-end traffic flows and its backbone topology, as well as intuitive capacity planning capabilities and AI-supported anomaly detection.
Press Releases
June 15, 2022
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier Enhances Network Monitoring with BENOCS and Anodot Solution
Leading telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier has announced the implementation of a superior network monitoring solution provided by Anodot and BENOCS.
Blog posts
June 7, 2022
Anomaly detection done right
Network visibility is our specialty: We can show you things about your internet traffic that you never knew. By utilizing various internet protocols, BENOCS Flow Analytics helps you improve peering negotiations, prospect new customers, improve capacity planning and, of course, improve customer service. But wait, there's more...
Blog posts
March 25, 2022
Fast Indexing for Data Streams
Our customers, some belonging to the biggest telecommunications providers in the world, need to monitor and analyze huge amounts of traffic. For this reason, Flow Analytics needs a substantial databank behind it. Analyzing network traffic at high complexity and speeds is challenging, especially in diverse environments with asynchronous data feeds.
Blog posts
March 22, 2022
Jobs for Ukrainians
We are 25 employees from 10 different nations, so are no strangers to working in an international team. In fact, we are convinced that our multicultural office enriches our team and creates an all-round great atmosphere. So we’ve decided to help in the best way we can: by especially inviting Ukrainian full stack developers and data analysts to apply for open positions in our team.
Press Releases
February 23, 2022
BENOCS Selects Anodot’s Zero Touch Network Monitoring Platform to Enhance the Customer Experience
Anodot announced a technology partnership with BENOCS to help Internet Service Providers (ISPs) manage content delivery networks (CDNs) network traffic and identify problems before they impact customer service and negatively affect revenue.
Blog posts
January 3, 2022
Work and network traffic after COVID-19
How did lockdowns affect internet traffic? What does this mean for the coming years and how can we prepare? We looked at the data.
Press Releases
October 20, 2021
Mobile Telecom-Service LLP now backed by BENOCS Network Analytics
BENOCS GmbH stated today that they are now backing Mobile Telecom-Service LLP with their network analytics and intelligence. This high-performing tool gives Mobile Telecom-Service LLP the ability to monitor their traffic, trouble shoot network failures, optimize routing, seek new business opportunities and more.
Blog posts
October 19, 2021
Heatmaps are the best way to view your external links’ behavior
The external links heatmap allow users to determine which links are over-utilized and for how long. Use it to keep an overview of your pipes to be able to add capactiy before things begin backed up.
Press Releases
June 17, 2021
BENOCS Analytics and A1 Telekom Austria Group announce their cooperation concerning network intelligence
BENOCS GmbH announced today that they are now officially supporting A1 Telekom Austria Groups network and providing detailed network traffic visibility via an easy-to-use user interface. By installing BENOCS Analytics, A1 Telekom Austria Group has acquired a high performing tool that gives them the ability to monitor traffic, troubleshoot problems, seek new business opportunities and more.
Press Releases
June 10, 2021
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier Launches IPX Navigator Monitoring of IPX Traffic Flows
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier today announced the launch of its new IPX Navigator, which was developed as a collaboration with BENOCS – a spin-off of Deutsche Telekom. It is an IPX and data roaming monitoring solution that provides advanced end-to-end monitoring of IPX traffic flow in near real time.
Blog posts
June 9, 2021
Fastly outage has also led to mixed outcomes
Yesterday, Fastly made news headlines after a configuration error led to a wide-spread failure of commercial and critical apps and websites. This phenomenon has not only led to a new general interest in the inter-workings of the Internet, but also, as most news sources reported, exposed how fragile the Internet can be.
Blog posts
June 3, 2021
Who filled my pipe? Flows on Links can help you figure that out
Flow analytics tools are great for seeing how traffic flows enters and leaves your network in order to determine its behavior. However, when it comes to answering questions such as “who filled my pipe (aka who is consuming valuable backbone capacity)?”, or “do I need to raise transit prices?”, you often find yourself limited by the information these tools can provide.
Blog posts
January 29, 2021
BENOCS paired with your current network analytics for a high performing network
When it comes to choosing the analytics tool that is right for your networks, you might be enticed by companies that claim to be a “jack-of-all-trades”. This may sound like the best deal on multiple levels e.g. installation, hardware, fees, etc., but different types of networks and different functions to run a network require different types of network analytics. Would you build a house with a Swiss Army Knife or with a tool box filled with high quality tools?
Press Releases
November 25, 2020
BENOCS Analytics services now available over the NL-ix platform all over Europe
BENOCS GmbH and NL-ix announced that the Hosted BENOCS Analytics Service is available over the NL-ix platform. The Service is now available from the close to 100 European NL-ix enabled Data Centers.
Blog posts
October 26, 2020
More on how the COVID19 Lockdown affected the Internet
What happens to the Internet when the entire world changes their behavior at the same time? Internet traffic patterns have been growing and changing for many years. However, the rate at which these traffic patterns changed during the spring of 2020 was unprecedented. So, what did this mean for the Internet, and how did networks manage with the heavy influx of traffic?
Press Releases
October 16, 2020
Leading China Telecom Global now supported by BENOCS Analytics
BENOCS GmbH announced today that they, together with MarvelTec, are now supporting China Telecom Global – one of China’s largest carrier networks – with network intelligence and visibility. Implementing BENOCS Analytics provides this carrier with a high performing tool to monitor traffic, trouble shoot failures, seek new business opportunities and more.
Blog posts
October 6, 2020
Not every network’s traffic increased during the COVID19 lockdowns
Since the period when most governments started mandating lockdowns and encouraging social distancing at the beginning of 2020, many network operators, SaaS, OTT providers and CDNs have been reporting unprecedented spikes in traffic volumes and content demand. But what about the other side of the coin?
Press Releases
September 14, 2020
BENOCS aligns with MCT Telco Global to spread network intelligence globally
BENOCS GmbH and MCT Telco Global announce their new partnership to further spread network intelligence through the telecom world. With support from MCT Telco Global, Internet Service Providers and Telecoms in the Middle East and parts of Asia will now have easier access to the implementation of BENOCS intelligent solutions directly into their networks.
Blog posts
June 22, 2020
Network traffic patterns change during COVID19 lock-downs
COVID19 proved to be a challenge for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). As countries began locking-down, consumer demand for the Internet surged, flooding the network pipelines. However, despite these challenges, the Internet managed maintain its strength.
Press Releases
June 19, 2020
BENOCS Analytics supports KPN with network intelligence
BENOCS GmbH announced today that they are now officially running in the KPN network, providing KPN with detailed network traffic visibility via an easy-to-use user interface. By installing BENOCS Analytics, KPN has acquired a high performing tool that gives them the ability to monitor traffic, troubleshoot problems, seek new business opportunities and more.
Blog posts
March 16, 2020
The internet during a pandemic: maintaining the quality of service
As the COVID-19 continues to spread globally at alarming rates, governments and large companies alike are taking great preventative measures to slow the spread of the disease, such as by cancelling large events, limiting travel, and forcing employees to work from home. These initiatives are moving a large influx of people into the digital realm at a rapid rate, which is stressing out networks and causing the quality of service to reduce.
Blog posts
January 29, 2020
It is important for analytics to be backed by powerful data
Today, network analytic tools are typically used for four main purposes: DDoS protection, peering & transit optimization, network planning and network debugging. However, as the network continues to grow and change, it is important that you not only choose analytics tools that can support these tasks now, but to also invest in those that are adaptable for whatever new challenges emerge on the network in the future. Here are a few areas of data-driven network management that we believe will one day be relevant that BENOCS could provide.
Blog posts
December 10, 2019
How the BENOCS Flow Director went from research to product
Back in 2010, before BENOCS, our founder along with a few other researchers presented the new challenges facing ISPs: CDNs/hyper-giants and their poorly mapped traffic. In that proposal, they opened the research community to a new idea: the prospect of creating a system that would be implemented in the ISP network, which would use the network’s data to facilitate better mapping from the CDN/hypergiants’ side. Today, this has become a reality.
Blog posts
October 21, 2019
DDoS attacks are too easy to launch: How effective are booter take downs?
The widely known DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have been a major threat to Internet security and availability for over two decades. Their goal: to interrupt services by consuming critical resources: computation power or bandwidth, with a motivation of anything from political, financial, cyber warfare, deflecting from other attacks to hackers just testing their limits. Since they were first observed, these attacks have grown in both size and sophistication. Are current protective measures enough?
Blog posts
August 8, 2019
What if we turned the conversation from Netflow vs SNMP to Netflow & SNMP?
Blog posts
October 31, 2018
What are self-operated Meta CDNs, and should ISPs be concerned?
Before 2014, Apple relied on external CDNs, such as Akamai and Level 3, to deliver everything from music/video streaming to iOS updates. Then Apple released their CDN as an effort to take control over the quality of their content delivery as well as creating the final puzzle piece that gives them control over the entire customer experience (hardware, online platforms, ect.). Interestingly enough, though, Apple was in no hurry to convert all of their traffic to their own CDN and would still need some time before they completely stopped offloading traffic onto third-party CDNs.
Blog posts
October 31, 2018
Why geolocation is important for enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation and other privacy policies
If you are living in Europe or doing business with European companies, you are probably already familiar with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which has been in effect since May 2018. However, what you may not know is how this law is actually administered. After all, a law is only as good as its ability to be enforced. Given that internet content is shared globally, how can anyone ensure those within the European Union (EU) borders are actually protected by this law, especially when content needs to travel across borders?
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September 26, 2017
Episode 5: Vision Gaps: How to overcome them by evolving towards ISP-CDN interplay
In the previous episodes, we mentioned that the internet demand is continuously growing, and the network infrastructure is no longer able to efficiently support the heavy traffic without costly upgrades and extensions. So far, we discussed the tools currently being used to support content delivery, why we think they are no longer efficient, and the solutions we can provide to help the network operate better. However, what we have not yet answered is why. Why has the network evolved this way if it is inefficient? Let's take a look.
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September 11, 2017
Episode 4: Vision Gaps - How BENOCS tackles the delivery of different types of content
In the previous episodes, we explored the different approaches currently implemented into the network in order to keep up with the increasing customer demands and the delivery of content across the internet. Although they are currently capable of sustaining the higher demands and expectations, their systems are not efficient and require frequent and costly infrastructure updates to manage future congestion. At BENOCS, we introduce a new way of managing internet traffic by collecting and sharing information that is already available on the network.
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September 6, 2017
Episode 3: Vision Gaps - One step closer with ECS
In the previous episodes, we took you on an “internet road trip” to help explicate some of the issues concerning content delivery across the network. However, the network does not work with such efficiency and simplicity as we have previously alluded. In fact, our previous metaphors are still missing some important features that are used in this process.
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August 29, 2017
Episode 2: Vision Gaps Deep Dive - DNS Indirection
After a long and stressful day of driving (almost stranded in the middle of nowhere without gas), you finally arrive to your destination tired and hungry. You decide to call for pizza and order the largest one available. After placing the order, the person asks, as expected, your location. You provide them with the address of your hotel. Here, the Quality of Experience (QoE) comes from the pizza hotline being well equipped with the information of your exact location. So how do CDNs find out where they need to deliver their pizzas - ah - content?
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August 21, 2017
Episode 1: Vision Gaps: How to see through the internet forest
Imagine that you are on a road trip almost exactly half way to your destination. Having just learned your car is about to run out of gas and with only a few minutes left until you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, you come to a fork in the road with three possible paths. Each path has a sign for a gas station, however, the distance and potential road obstacles are unclear due to the thick forest ahead. You have to decide which road will get you to a gas station the fastest using little to no equipment. This is similar to what is currently happening across the internet as content is being delivered to the user.
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January 31, 2017
Network analytics will play a key role for future networks
In just a few years’ time, the Internet has changed significantly. Starting as a hierarchical Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 topology, it is evolving more and more towards a mashup of directly interconnected networks, thus increasing its complexity both physically and logically. Driven by higher quality demands and lower transit network cost, content providers have been working on increasing the content to user speed by shortening the path, which positions the content as close to the consumer as possible.
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April 15, 2016
Overcoming today’s network visibility limits
In times of rapidly increasing internet traffic, it is becoming important for internet service providers (ISP) to seek more visibility and control over how and where content is entering its network, and how this can affect the user’s quality of experience. Content delivery is still a blind flight, but how can you equip for the future when you do not know your demand as well as how it affects your network assets? Instead of facing rising infrastructure costs, let us help you get over the “best effort” principle and make content delivery and Quality of Experience (QoE) for your end users great.
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February 7, 2016
Ultimate Un-Carrier: Raising All Visors!
Since its beginning, the Internet as a system of systems has enjoyed unparalleled success as a powerful means of telecommunication. It is blazing fast, its infrastructure reaches even the most remote places on earth, and its design principles have shown to be quite robust. However, the opportunities that lie ahead of us will make greater demands on the Internet than being able to transfer emails or pictures.
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BENOCS Flow Analytics
BENOCS Flow Analytics solves network visibility challenges by letting you inspect traffic flows in their entirety: from source to destination, including how traffic enters, traverses and exits the network backbone. Using a 'top down' approach, you gain a holistic view of your traffic across multiple dimensions to identify and react to traffic anomalies fast, or identify new business opportunities in just a few clicks. The intuitive flow-based model makes it easy to share network information with your colleagues, regardless of their role or background.
BENOCS Flow Director
BENOCS Flow Director is a network traffic management and optimization tool that allows CSPs to facilitate optimal network traffic conditions and improve their network visibility through an automated mapping-data exchange with CDNs. Likewise, it gives CDNs the necessary information to make better content delivery decisions for faster delivery service, resulting in a better quality of experience, and stabilized, organic utilization patterns on server clusters.