Basics: What Is a Network Service ?
This article provide a practical and workable definition of "What Is a Network Service ?"
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Is the Cisco Nexus 9000 is a Whitebrand strategy ?
I was reviewing the non-ACI Nexus 9000 products this week and started thinking that the Nexus 9000 will become Cisco's response to whitebox disruption.
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AWS Summit London – Come For The IaaS, Stay For the PaaS
I attended the AWS Summit in London yesterday. Here are some observations in no particular order. Come for the IaaS, Stay for the PaaS. AWS made a strong case about their portfolio of software services such as AWS Lambda, Cloudformation, KMS and Cloudtrail. Its no longer just compute, storage and networking its all about the […]
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Response: Your Software Needs Hardware to Deliver
The hardware makes the software possible but disappears quickly from view.
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Network Zen: You Cant Change The Fact But You Might Change The Perception
The mendicant was perplexed. This wasn’t unusual and, truth be told, the mendicant often didn’t understand everything and lived in a constant state of perplexedness. But this time, he was sure of the facts and knew that something was not right. He sighed and went to find the the Master. The Master was communing […]
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Blessay: My New Criteria for Network Design and Architecture
Today you design resilient, redundant networks with what you have. Tomorrow, we need networks that use using software and freedom to be predictable and safe.
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Analysis: 3 Emerging Categories in Networking Markets for 2015
The most significant underlying technology trend in networking is that startups have taken analytics and big data software and applied it to network devices. Three emerging product categories are Security Threat Systems, Software Defined WAN and Network Analytics & Control.
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Thought for The Day: NetBIOS over IPX
I found a capture file from 2002. I must have been troubleshooting name resolution of NetBIOS over IPX for print servers because I am only capturing broadcasts on the Ethernet segment. And Wireshark can still open a data format from 15 years ago and render the data. I surely do not miss these days. […]
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Musing: HP Networking Futures after deals with Aruba & H3C
HP Networking will acquire Aruba and now it is selling 51% stake in H3C to a Chinese venture capital firm. What could this mean for HP Networking customers ? The sale of a controlling interest in H3C means that HP Networking has government support (blessing?) to sell products in China. The Chinese government has been […]
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The End of WHOIS ?
The convergence trend on HTTPS protocol continues to gather momentum. This time it is the venerable WHOIS protocol that is poised to be replaced with RDAP over HTTP.
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Commodity Manufacture is the Majority of Switch Products
How much of an Ethernet switch product is custom made by the vendor and how much is commodity components selected and assembled into a closed vendor solution ?
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Four Different Types of Ethernet & Whitebox Products
I drew up this diagram to explain how I see four different categories of Ethernet switches emerging in to the market.
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Analysis: CloudFlare Keyless SSL Scales Down Internet Connections
Providing a web application on the Internet can be a risky business. DDOS attacks are commonly exceeding 40 Gigabits per second of data, crackers are web crawling the Internet looking for vulnerabilities and much more. As a result, the data centre Internet connection is scaled for a worst case scenario and not for customer need. […]
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Analysis: Marriot Court Case Highlights the Problems of WiFi Services
Customers who pay for WiFi expect it to work. Marriott wanted to make that guarantee. But wireless spectrum is shared, uncontrolled, unregulated and unpredictable. You can't give a viable guarantee. Then you add lawyers ......
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Response: Open Compute Project (OCP) Formally Accepts Open Network Linux (ONL) | Big Switch Networks, Inc.
This is good news. Big Switch has contributed Open Network Linux to Open Compute Project and been accepted as the standard operating system for whitebox Ethernet. Analysis Customers now have a number of choices for operating system for theirwhitebox switches. I know of the following: Open Network Linux Cumulus Linux PicOS from Pica8 This is base […]
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Response: Open Web Alliance Lobbies to Intercept Your Traffic
The Open Web Alliance is a lobby group that is opposed to secure and safe HTTPS traffic over the Internet and forms lobby group for the HTTP2 process to ensure that your Internet traffic can be intercepted and logged by service providers. This major purpose of this so-called technology innovation is that your personal information to can […]
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Being Hacked Is Good For Business! or Why You Need To Security Detection not Security Prevention
I've always said that its pointless investing in strong IT security because it will drag down profits and productivity which impacts your stock price in the current quarter. Be prepared for the media campaign that reacts to a security breach and make the most of the media coverage for promotion, exposure and business growth.
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Analysis: Example of WAN Orchestration
I wanted to draw attention to this WAN Orchestration demonstration video from Nuage Networks to highlight that you don't need to become a programmer to bring orchestration to your network.
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HP Embracing Whitebrand/Bare Metal/Britebox Ethernet Switching
HP is now offering a whitebox Ethernet product range to its customers in a recent announcements. Whether you call this britebox, whitebrand, bare metal or branded whitebox, the final outcome is the same. HP is offering customers another choice to buy the network products that meets their requirements.
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Network Dictionary – Whitebrand Ethernet
Whitebrand is a term used to describe a type of Ethernet switch that is a whitebox or generic manufacture but sold by a known IT brand. Juniper OCX1100, HP Open Network Switches are example. White-Box Switching + Vendor Branding = Whitebrand switching. The other term used is “britebox” but this sounds like dishwashing liquid or something you […]
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