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World IPv6 Day Connectivity Chart
The folks over at RIPE NCC put together the RIPE World IPv6 Day Connectivity Chart so you can test your connectivity to various sites for the upcoming world IPv6 day on June 8, 2011. Roller Network's...
View ArticleYear-Round Economizer Cooling
It’s just coming up on 04:00 in the morning here at Roller Network on a Saturday (we’re doing some off-hour line card insertions), and even though it’s summer in our part of the world the high desert...
View ArticleA Year With Utility Power
It dawned on us that it’s been a while since we’ve had a power outage or phase imbalance requiring us to switch to generator power (although we do test every two weeks on load), so we did some digging...
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Nevada/California Streaming Weather Radio
One of our “for fun” projects we recently completed was to add online streaming audio for the two NOAA Weather Radio stations we are able to receive. By utilizing a pair of handheld Midland weather...
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Our New Weather Camera
Have you ever wondered what things look like outside from our offices? If so, then you’re in luck! We recently put a camera up on the roof as a weather camera. It’s on our weather radio page...
View ArticlePush Email Support for Cell Phones
Do you feel like testing something new? See the following thread in the forums: Push Email Support for Cell Phones
View ArticleWeather Camera Moved
The weather camera was moved to a more south-east facing direction. The original intent was to be able to see Mt. Rose, but we were tired of basically staring at the trees across the street. With this...
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Mars Science Laboratory Lands!
Congratulations to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team for a successful landing of the rover “Curiosity” on Mars. The left image is the front hazcam with the shadow of the rover on the surface of...
View ArticleInside Google’s Datacenters
Google released some pictures of inside their datacenters. We found two things interesting from this: They’re using tapes for backup. A lot of them: large robotic libraries with what appears to be LTO...
View ArticleDid you know… only part of “192″ and “172″ are private?
Only a portion of the “172″ and the “192″ address ranges are designated for private use. The remaining addresses are “public,” and routable on the global Internet. From:...
View ArticleLong Live Uptime
We sadly had to move the plug on this device to a new PDU this afternoon: Lucent PortMaster PM-25 ComOS 3.9 System uptime is 1546 days 5 hours 55 minutes This old PM25 is still used to provide some...
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Updated Facility Pictures
Did you know that the pictures we use on our website are real pictures from our facility, not stock photos? A couple of them were out of date so here’s the updated versions for the colocation services...
View ArticleAkamai is Coming to Reno
This isn’t entirely Roller Network related, but we felt compelled to mention that Akamai (AS20940) will be peering with Northern Nevada’s first (and currently only) internet exchange: TahoeIX. It’s...
View ArticleImprovements Through IX Peering
Roller Network is one of the first participants of the Tahoe Internet Exchange, or TahoeIX. We announce our routes and our customer’s routes to the exchange, and accept all routes from the exchange....
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On The Map with J Root
We’re on the map with J Root. Yep, that’s us in Reno. Access to J root is available through peering at TahoeIX and automatically to Roller Network customers since Rollernet already peers.
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