When you design for automation, you spend a lot of time looking at edge cases. 95% of the time, a standard approach will work, but for that other five percent, we need to get more creative. That’s how we approached the SMS-initiated PPP feature we introduced several years back. It allows you to remotely activate your[...]

I was emptying my junk folder the other day when I stumbled upon an email asking if I was ready to comply with FCC Order 19-72A1, which has something to do with the phasing out of copper phone lines at telecommunications companies. Despite not having used a POTS line since high school, this news made me a little sad.[...]

Vulnerability: CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j2

The year was 2013, Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, Sony released the Playstation 4, and we launched the next generation of our Local Management Platform, the Uplogix 500 and 5000 Local Managers. You heard that right. The Uplogix 5-Series appliances have been out in the world for over eight years! Considering how quickly[...]

On November 25, 2019, the regional Internet registry for Europe announced that it had made its “final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool” and that “[w]e have now run out of IPv4 addresses.” This wasn’t surprising; smart people had been working on the problem for years, which is[...]

It’s funny to think about how much effort we put into keeping the internal network up when all of our customer interaction is funneling through a single Linux server running Apache and MySQL. Of course, you can hook that server up to an Uplogix Local Manager and allow us to monitor services and memory and all the[...]