Neustar Blogs

Thriving in the ever-changing communications arena takes utter flexibility, a thirst for knowledge, a willingness to discard outmoded ways of thinking at a moment’s notice, and a genuine desire to make positive contributions to the ongoing discussions that impact an entire industry.

Thought leaders are everywhere at Neustar – and some of our company’s best minds are now blogging actively on a broad range of IP, telephony and Internet-related topics. Click any of the links below to read more.

Today’s “net” generation expects feature-rich services and access from anywhere. As operators add new multi-media services to meet this demand, they face the significant challenges of network interworking. How do operators provide for global interoperability without increasing costs and risks? A new approach that takes advantage of the flexible Internet and IP architectures is needed to ensure ubiquitous service connectivity. To this end, Neustar is proud to present its latest complimentary w...READ MORE

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Global ENUM / ENUM / White Paper / more…

Carrier Services Blog

Cloud computing is here, and it’s changing everything: infinitely scalable on-demand hardware, no up-front costs, pay-as-you-go pricing, and click-and-drag instead of rack-and-stack. It’s a paradigm shift in how IT functions, but it is no silver bullet. There are limits to the abstracted infrastructure, and undelivered promises around automatically scalable hardware. To analyze the promise and the reality of cloud,  Alistair Croll spent five months doing primary research across five of t...READ MORE

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Webmetrics Performance Blog

Amid quite a lot of hoopla the root DNS zone of the global public Internet "graduated" into full DNSSEC operation on July 15 (give or take a day depending on the timezone).  Having been involved with DNSSEC since it was still a DARPA research project in the mid 1990's, I don't know whether I want to be happy to see this (joining in the crowd of folks congratulating each other on a job well done) or just a little cynical that it took so long to get here (joining in with the crow...READ MORE

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DNSSEC / Root TLD / UltraDNS /

DNS Matters

For those of you interested in learning more about the Cloud and making the transition to Cloud-based services, we have a new informative on-demand webcast that might interest you: “How to Trust Cloud”.  Here’s the synopsis: The idea of moving key parts of your business into the cloud is scary. You lose control, visibility, and a neck to wring when something goes wrong. What does it take to make the leap? More important than the ROI and the many other benefits is the ability to trust the...READ MORE

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Webmetrics Webinars / Webmetrics Webcasts / Cloud Performance / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

Aladdin Nassar from Microsoft's Hotmail team recently presented some interesting network performance statistics at the Velocity 2010 conference . The whole presentation is certainly worth watching but particularly interesting was the following slide presented at the 10-minute mark on worldwide DNS and TCP performance from over 950 million data points with users that have the Bing Toolbar installed....READ MORE

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DNS recursive lookup times performance /

DNS Matters

On June 28-29, Neustar sponsored the 8th annual Capacity Central Eastern European (CEE) Conference. This two-day event, held in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the business of wholesale telecommunications and attracted nearly 250 attendees from local, regional and international carriers and service providers. Neustar was well represented by its international sales and marketing team, including Laszlo Bognar who was a featured speaker discussing number portability and our GSMA Pathfinder se...READ MORE

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cee / capacity conference / events / more…

Carrier Services Blog

I’m happy to introduce Visual Application Monitoring.  Visual Application Monitoring allows you to monitor the performance of a transaction in your rich media application.  Do you have a Flash application that’s visible to customers and needs to provide them with the ultimate online experience? Whether you offer a community in which your customers are uploading and sharing files, enable your customers to build their dream product, or anything in between, it is imperative to know you...READ MORE

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Visual Application Monitoring / Flash Monitoring / Silverlight Monitoring / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

Neustar recently hosted a second webinar to inform communication service providers (CSPs) of the fast-approaching, FCC-mandated One-Day Number Porting (ODP) deadlines. If you missed it, you can still obtain the latest information regarding the FCC regulations by clicking on the links below to download the recorded One-Day Number Porting webinar, presentation and data sheet.The downloadable content focuses on the latest developments and requirements of FCC’s One-Day Number Porting mandate and...READ MORE

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Carrier Services Blog

We’ve recently gotten some coverage regarding our recursive service blocking parked domains. (Recursive is the part of the DNS puzzle that answers end-user requests to the Internet.) We aren’t doing that! Our recursive service has this really cool feature that allows whomever is providing the service to its users (your Internet Service Provider) to select what sites it thinks you should be warned about. They can configure it to block the site completely, or provide a warning before you get t...READ MORE

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Parked Domains / Recursive Servier / Recursive Service / more…

DNS Matters

Time and time again, studies indicate that faster websites produce greater revenue. All too often, the approach toward increasing the speed of a site is seen as only a "technical challenge" that requires new hardware, better search algorithms and so forth. Often overlooked is the importance of having an efficient and effective user experience.At Velocity 2010 Stoyan Stefanov, a performance engineer at Yahoo! and architect of YSlow 2.0 , gave a talk on the Psychology of Performance ....READ MORE

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user experience / UX / Stoyan Stefanov / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog