BGP peering
How Srinagar’s Geographic Isolation Forces Network Engineering Rethinking
How Srinagar's network engineers built a resilient infrastructure that works despite floods, snow, and geographic isolation.
A Hidden Trick to Increase Your Instagram Followers
Instagram’s recommendation algorithm serves over 500 million accounts daily, yet the infrastructure underpinning that delivery remains poorly understood by most network engineers. The platform processes petabytes of video traffic through a global CDN fabric that few IT professionals have reason to map — until something breaks. When a marketing team complains about Reels stalling at...
Things to do in Denver
Denver is home to one of the highest concentrations of fiber-optic backbone routes in North America. More than a dozen major long-haul carriers—Level 3 (now Lumen), Zayo, CenturyLink, and Cogent among them—converge in the city, making it a critical interconnection point between the West Coast, the Midwest, and the East Coast. This geographic and network...
Beauty Of Kashmir- Srinagar
The Dal Lake houseboat, connected to the mainland by a shaky wooden plank, has internet. Not just any internet — a fiber-to-the-home connection pushing 50 Mbps symmetrical, provided by a local ISP that routes traffic through a BGP peering arrangement with a Tier-2 provider in Delhi. This is Srinagar in 2026, a city where 14th-century...