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Announcements Changes

WiMAX Broadband Discontinued

We’re officially discontinuing WiMAX broadband services in 2015.

This does not affect any customers on standard broadband or microwave services; those on WiMAX are explicitly noted as such in the account control center and on their invoices. The WiMAX customers were always a special case for locations where we couldn’t reach with our standard service. Affected customers will be contacted directly as we work through the list to determine if they can be converted to standard service since coverage has increased since the WiMAX customers were originally installed.

Since we are completely discontinuing WiMAX services we’ve also taken steps to remove it from our website and from the internet access service level agreement. We will not be grandfathering or retaining any WiMAX-only accounts.

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Announcements Fun Stuff

Akamai 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 sort of related to Rollernet since we’re also peering and offering free GigE cross connects into the TahoeIX peering fabric to all colocation customers. This is an exciting time for us here in Reno, NV.

For more on the exchange visit www.tahoeix.org

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Announcements IPv6

IPv6 For Everyone

Roller Network has long been a proponent of native IPv6 since we first deployed it on our network in 2007 following some early testing back in 2005. We also require support for native IPv6 from anyone we buy transit from now or in the future. But IPv6 provisioning on new Roller Network customer accounts has been optional on request. We’ve decided it’s time to change that.

Since last week we’ve started provisioning an IPv6 /64 subnet (with its enclosing /48 reserved) on all new accounts. Soon we’ll be going through all existing accounts and assigning an IPv6 subnet to them, too. Whether or not customers will use their IPv6 is still up to them, but we hope this will encourage some to give IPv6 another look or start learning and testing IPv6 connectivity.

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Announcements Changes

Secondary DNS Updates

We’ve revamped the Secondary DNS section in the account control center and also added TSIG support for authenticating zone transfers.

According to our changelog this is the first time since 2008 that we’ve made a change to the Secondary DNS backend (how’s that for code stability), so while we’ve tested the TSIG changes to the best of our ability hopefully it doesn’t introduce some weird bug after all this time that breaks our streak.

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Announcements

Expansion Project Starts!

After many months of waiting for permits and plans and switchgear to be built for the job, our facility expansion project will be starting on Tuesday, September 16th. Follow us on Twitter @RollernetNV for updates as we work towards opening our expansion floor. This project will add another 50 racks worth of space to our facility.

We’ll be sticking to Twitter for most of the incidental updates, but major milestones will be posted to the newspipe as well.

In addition to following us on Twitter there’s an embedded Twitter feed at rollernetstatus.com .