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There are many factors that contribute to inaccuracies in geo-location data. Cellular networks and mobile IPs often have much lower localization accuracy compared to broadband or Wi-Fi. The usage of VPN, proxies, carrier grade NAT and very recently Apple Private Relay further obscure the true location. There is a solution, though, and it lies directly in your own network.

For people who depend on flow data for analytics, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting, the uncertainty to full packet delivery can be extremely damaging for the network. Indeed, most of the time, neither the user nor the collector has a way to detect if something's missing.

In 2024, submarine cable outages became a major problem for connectivity providers. Several key cables in the Red Sea, including Seacom/TGN, AAE-1, and EIG, were damaged on February 24 and remained offline until August 7, 2024. RETN has capacity in both AAE-1 and SMW-5 cable systems and now had to quickly reroute large amounts of traffic.

From June 9-13 in Brighton, UK, Péter György, Hari Jayaraman, and Ingmar Poese will be representing BENOCS and are looking forward to some seriously good conversations with the NREN community.

The telecommunications provider 1&1 Versatel, which specializes in enterprise customers, has recently deployed the German technology BENOCS Analytics to monitor traffic flows in its fiber optic network. BENOCS is a specialized provider of network analysis software.

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.

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.

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!

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

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 …