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How to Measure VoIP Quality & MOS Score (Mean Opinion Score)

Are you tired of constantly dropping calls or struggling to hear your loved ones on the other end of the line? Fear not, because we're here to talk about the one thing that can make or break your VoIP experience: MOS score. No, we're not talking about the fuzzy creature from Star Wars - we're talking about the Mean Opinion Score, the nifty little metric that can help you measure and improve the quality of your VoIP calls.

Console Connect expands Azure ExpressRoute reach with new global locations

Console Connect has expanded its global footprint with five additional Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute locations, bringing the total to 16 locations worldwide. This significant growth gives customers even more options to directly and securely connect to Azure from strategic data centre hubs in key international markets.

30,000 updates per day: Dynamic Kubernetes routing with HAProxy Map API at PayPal

Learn how PayPal Genesis scales with HAProxy Fusion via dynamic configuration, rapid deployments, and automated service discovery for 10,000 test environments. HAProxy is the company behind HAProxy One, the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, and HAProxy, the most widely used software load balancer. Leading platforms and cloud providers trust HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment.

SD-WAN, SASE, SSE, and the Coffee Shop Network: From Distraction to AI Superpower

Back in 2018, I wondered (perhaps loudly if SD-WAN was just IT’s hype-of-the-year, destined for the same eye-rolls as signature-based antivirus and GDPR compliance drives. Even then, I knew we couldn’t let messaging fatigue blind us to real technology shifts. Fast-forward to 2025: SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) not only stuck around, but became the springboard to something far bigger – SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).

Observability Data: Ingestion Pipeline Best Practices

Great data is a prerequisite to all things AIOps and observability. Great observability data results in fewer observability gaps, better analysis and insights, and more confidence within teams that rely on the power of modern AIOps and observability technologies. Goals for improved automation, IT efficiencies, intelligent triage and remediation all become more achievable with better data.

From Dial-Up to Colo: The Impact of AI on Data Center Design

In this episode of Uplink, we’re joined by Jay Smith, VP of Data Center Operations and Engineering at Evocative. With nearly 30 years in the industry, Jay unpacks how data centers are adapting to support AI’s massive power and cooling demands. This episode covers: Why colo is thriving in the AI era Liquid cooling and rear-door heat exchangers Powering 275kW racks and beyond How AI inference is shifting compute to the edge Career opportunities in infrastructure without a degree.