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ThingsGreen TV is the television arm of ThingsGreen, a plant, lawn, and landscape diagnosis service hosted by Nick Federoff. If you're looking for the broadcasts, the site lists two regular slots: Saturdays at 9AM on PBS|KLCS Los Angeles, and Saturdays at 8AM on CBS|KCAL News. Episodes and news clips are also watchable online through links on the ThingsGreen site.

What the show covers

ThingsGreen positions itself as a problem-diagnosis resource rather than a general gardening lifestyle show. The stated approach is: "WE DIAGNOSE THEN HELP FIX IT." Nick Federoff describes helping homeowners, serious gardeners, and businesses fix plant, lawn, and landscape problems "using professional horticulture and contractor-tested methods—without wasting money on gimmicks."

The site also ties the show to Zone 0, describing ThingsGreen as "the trusted interpreter of Zone 0" and framing it around the idea that "you don't have to choose between wildfire preparedness and a beautiful Landscape."

Broadcast schedule

Both listings appear on the ThingsGreen homepage, each with a "Watch Episodes" or "Watch News Clips" link.

Watching online

The site points to several online destinations:

• ThingsGreen YouTube and ThingsGreenTV — video channels linked from the homepage navigation
• KLCS.org — listed alongside the PBS|KLCS broadcast
• Watch Episodes and Watch News Clips links next to each broadcast listing

There is also a Spanish-language companion, Temas Verdes con Ricardo Ortiz.

Getting a question answered

If you want a plant, lawn, or landscape problem diagnosed rather than just watched, the site gives two phone numbers:

• 1-800-405-NICK (6425) — the call-in line, described as "Talk to Nick"
• 1-800-9NewYard (800) 963-9927 — the business/office number

A fax number, 562-273-5176, is also listed. The homepage includes a "DROP US A LINE" contact section and a contact form route.

What to check before you tune in

Confirm the current schedule on the ThingsGreen site or the station pages before relying on the times above, since broadcast slots can change. If you're outside the Los Angeles area, the online episode and clip links are the practical route, since both listed stations are LA-based.

Security on a CDN and edge platform means filtering and absorbing malicious traffic at edge nodes before it reaches your origin server. Instead of only hardening the origin, you distribute protection across a global network so attacks are mitigated closer to their source. This matters most when your site faces volumetric attacks, application-layer exploits, or automated abuse, and when you want to avoid exposing your origin IP directly. Tencent EdgeOne, for example, positions security alongside acceleration, serverless, and video delivery as a core edge capability.

The core security layers

A CDN/edge platform typically bundles several distinct protections. They address different threats and are often enabled independently.

These layers are complementary. DDoS mitigation keeps your service online under flood; WAF blocks exploit attempts that slip past volume-based defenses; bot management handles low-and-slow abuse that looks like normal traffic; TLS protects data in transit.

How edge-based security differs from origin-only protection

With origin-only protection, every request reaches your server before it is evaluated. Your origin absorbs the full attack volume, and its IP is often discoverable.

With edge-based security, requests terminate at an edge node first. The edge:

• Filters or challenges suspicious requests before forwarding.
• Absorbs volumetric attacks across many nodes rather than one server.
• Hides the origin IP when configured correctly, so attackers cannot target it directly.

The practical difference: origin-only defenses fail when the attack exceeds origin capacity. Edge defenses scale with the network, so capacity is less of a bottleneck. The trade-off is that you must route traffic through the edge consistently — if your origin IP leaks or is reachable directly, attackers can bypass the edge entirely.

Which protection addresses which threat

• Volumetric DDoS: needs DDoS mitigation with enough edge capacity to absorb the flood. Origin-only rate limiting usually fails here because the pipe itself saturates.
• Application exploits (injection, XSS): needs WAF rules. These attacks are small in volume, so DDoS mitigation alone will not stop them.
• Credential stuffing and scraping: needs bot management. These requests often look legitimate at the network level, so volume-based defenses miss them.
• Data interception: needs TLS end-to-end. Terminating TLS only at the edge without re-encrypting to origin leaves the edge-to-origin leg exposed.

A site can need all four, or only some. A static marketing site with no login may only need DDoS mitigation and TLS. An e-commerce site with accounts and checkout needs all four.

Practical steps to evaluate and enable security on a CDN/edge platform

1. Inventory your exposure. List public endpoints, login flows, APIs, and any user input. This tells you which layers are relevant.
2. Confirm origin IP is not directly reachable. If it is, edge security is bypassable. Restrict origin to accept traffic only from edge nodes.
3. Enable TLS end-to-end. Configure certificates at the edge and verify the edge-to-origin leg is encrypted, not plaintext.
4. Turn on DDoS mitigation. Usually always-on; verify the platform's capacity and whether it auto-scales.
5. Deploy WAF in monitor mode first. Log what would be blocked before enforcing, to avoid breaking legitimate traffic.
6. Add bot management where accounts or content value exist. Start with detection, then move to challenge/block.
7. Test with a controlled request. Send a known-malicious pattern (e.g., a test SQLi string) and confirm it is blocked. Send normal traffic and confirm it passes.

Common misconfigurations and how to verify

• Origin IP exposed. Verify by resolving your domain and checking whether the origin responds directly. If it does, lock it down.
• WAF in monitor-only mode left on. Check logs for blocked vs. logged events; if nothing is ever blocked, enforcement may be off.
• TLS terminated at edge but plaintext to origin. Inspect the edge-to-origin connection; if it is HTTP, data is exposed internally.
• Bot rules too aggressive. Watch for legitimate users getting challenged; tune thresholds against real traffic.
• DDoS protection untested. Run a controlled load test within allowed limits to confirm mitigation engages.

Verification is the same for each layer: send a request that should be blocked and confirm it is, then send a request that should pass and confirm it is not blocked. If both behave as expected, the layer is working.

Choosing what matters for your site

Match protections to your actual risk rather than enabling everything by default. A brochure site needs TLS and DDoS mitigation. A site with logins and payments needs WAF and bot management too. The decision hinges on whether you have user input, accounts, or valuable content — those are the conditions that make WAF and bot management worth the configuration effort. EdgeOne bundles these capabilities with its CDN and edge platform, so the evaluation question becomes which layers your site actually requires, not whether the platform offers them.

A network, in the context of interconnection, is an independently operated system of connected devices and infrastructure that exchanges traffic with other networks. The operator controls its own routing decisions and is identified on the internet by an Autonomous System Number (ASN). Networks connect by exchanging routes and traffic — either directly through peering, through a paid transit provider, or by meeting many other networks at an Internet Exchange Point (IXP). The sections below explain the network types involved, how traffic is addressed between them, and what operators weigh when choosing where and with whom to interconnect.

Networks by role

Interconnection discussions usually distinguish networks by what they carry and whom they serve:

The same organization can operate more than one type. A large carrier may run access, transit, and content infrastructure at once, which changes its peering posture in each role.

How networks are identified and how traffic is routed

Every network that participates in global routing is identified by an Autonomous System Number (ASN). The network announces the IP address ranges it is responsible for, and other networks learn those routes through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

The practical effect:

• A network announces its prefixes to its neighbors.
• Neighbors propagate those routes further, so every network builds a routing table of how to reach every prefix.
• When traffic is sent, each network forwards it to the next hop that its routing table says is best for that destination.
• The path traffic takes is therefore the result of many independent routing decisions, not a single central map.

This is why interconnection choices matter: they change which routes a network can use and how directly traffic reaches its destination.

How networks connect to each other

There are three common ways networks interconnect, and most operators use a mix:

Peering

Two networks agree to exchange traffic directly between themselves, typically without paying each other for the exchange. Peering can be private (a direct physical or virtual link between the two parties) or public (both parties connect to the same exchange fabric). Networks decide where to peer based on factors such as traffic volume, geographic proximity, cost, latency, and how much of their traffic goes to that partner.

Transit

A network buys connectivity from another network to reach the rest of the internet. Transit is the fallback that makes a network reachable even where it has no direct peering relationship. It is usually the paid option, in contrast to settlement-free peering.

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)

An IXP is a shared physical and logical location where many networks connect to a common switching fabric and peer with each other. Joining one IXP can give a network many peering options through a single connection instead of building a separate link to every partner. DE-CIX operates neutral Internet Exchanges in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and describes its services as premium interconnection services.

What networks consider when choosing interconnection partners or locations

The decision is usually a trade-off among measurable and strategic factors:

• Traffic volume and ratio — how much traffic flows each way between the two networks.
• Latency and path quality — whether a direct connection shortens the route to important destinations.
• Cost — port, cross-connect, transport, and any paid arrangement, weighed against the cost of transit.
• Reach — how many relevant networks, content sources, or end users are available at a given location.
• Redundancy — whether a new connection adds diversity or just duplicates an existing path.
• Operational effort — the work of configuring, monitoring, and maintaining each relationship.
• Neutrality and governance — whether the exchange or partner operates neutrally and under terms the network can accept.

Key terms to recognize

• Peering — direct traffic exchange between two networks, often settlement-free.
• Transit — paid connectivity that provides reach to the broader internet.
• IXP — a shared interconnection location where many networks meet.
• AS / ASN — an independently routed network and its identifying number.
• BGP — the routing protocol that exchanges reachability information between networks.
• Prefix — an IP address range a network announces and routes.

Understanding these terms is enough to follow most interconnection discussions and to evaluate why a given network peers where it does.