“ASICs, magic and pro-wrestling are closely guarded secrets.” Not so long ago you could not dream of running open source software on a 100Gbps router, but we now operate a fully open source network that can scale to billions of packets per second. Atomic built a 100Gbps IP network running Debian and drivers in the Linux kernel. About 10 years
Atomic Access builds fully Open Network with NVIDIA Spectrum ASICs Cape-based ISP Atomic Access now consistently routes content from the NAPAfrica and CINX internet exchange points to fibre networks with latency as low as 300 nanoseconds using fully Open Source software. “We see 50% less latency for packets crossing the Cape Town peering points with 80% less jitter,” says Joe
Will we see 75ms pings from Cape Town to London soon? Using Space Lasers or Undersea Fibre? You probably know about Elon Musk’s Starlink project, but have you heard about Hollow Fibre? Both of these ideas have the potential to radically reduce your international latency. You are probably thinking: how is this possible? Surely the speed of light is constant and we just
MANRS members improve internet routing security in four ways: 1️⃣ Filter incorrect routing information2️⃣ Stop spoofing3️⃣ Coordination (PeeringDB)4️⃣ Global validation (RPKI) Atomic is one of only 5 South African ISPs that implements all of these https://www.manrs.org/isps/participants/ Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing
