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Podcast, Ep5: BGP hijacking and learnings from BoM's new supercomputer deployment

Podcast, Ep5: BGP hijacking and learnings from BoM's new supercomputer deployment

The next episode of the F-Team has landed!

Once a fortnight we assemble Fastrack's brightest minds to discuss the latest business technology news, opinion and research.

In today’s episode we explore how fragile the internet can be and we take learnings from the Bureau of Meteorology’s recent datacentre upgrade.

 

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In this episode:

1:20 - What is BGP?

3:58 - How Pakistan took down YouTube globally

10:45 - Telstra hijacks 500 IPv4 prefixes

17:17 - Using RPKI to protect your IP prefixes

26:37 - Bureau of Meteorology updates their 46 year old data centre

28:42 - How having old hardware put your organisation at risk

36:00 - Bureau of Meteorology using both Intel and AMD in their data centre

39:43 - Tailoring specific workloads to suite your hardware

42:22 - Comparing a supercomputer to your PC

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