You’ve probably seen recently that the Wi-Fi Alliance has decided the rebrand the forthcoming 802.11ax standard as “Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6”, henceforth referred to as “Wi-Fi 6”. This branding decision happened late in 2018 and seems to be picking up steam in 2019 as 802.11ax comes closer to ratification later this year. With manufacturers shipping 11ax access points already and the consumer market poised to explode with the adoption of a new standard, I think it’s time to point out to the Wi-Fi Alliance that this is a dumb branding idea.
On the surface, the branding decision looks like it makes sense. The Wi-Fi alliance wants to make sure that consumers aren’t confused about which wireless standard they are using. 802.11n, 802.11ac, and 802.11ax are all usable and valid infrastructure that could be in use at any one time, as 11n is 2.4GHz, 11ac is 5GHz, and 11ax encompasses both. According to the alliance, there will be a number displayed on the badge of the connection to denote which generation of wireless the client is using.
Except, it won’t be that simple. Users don’t care about speeds. They care about having the biggest Continue reading
There’s more to serverless than just functions. The coming year will see more projects and products that show us just how useful this new option can be across all of IT.
I know many networking engineers who went into networking because they didn’t want to write code the rest of their lives. I also know a few awesome engineers who decided to keep coding while designing networks.
Andrea Dainese (author of UNetLab – the tool you might know as EVE-NG) is one of the latter and practiced network automation for years, dealing with all sorts of crappy device configuration and monitoring mechanisms, from screen- and web scraping to broken REST APIs.
He decided to write a series of articles describing individual mechanisms, starting with an overview and zero-touch provisioning.
On today's Heavy Networking we discuss advanced ZTP features in Cisco's IOS-XR in this sponsored episode. Our guest is Akshat Sharma, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco.
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This is a guest post by Tejas Dinkar, who is the Head of Engineering at Quintype, a platform for digital publishing. He’s continually looking for ways to make applications run faster and cheaper. You can find him on Github and Twitter.
TL;DR: Check out create-cloudflare-worker.
At Quintype, we are continually looking for new and innovative ways to use our CDN. Quintype moved to Cloudflare last year, partly because of the power of Cloudflare Workers. Workers have been a very important tool in our belt, and in this blog post we will talk a little bit about our worker development lifecycle.
Cloudflare Workers have drastically changed the way we architect and deploy things at Quintype. Quintype is a platform that powers many publishers, including many high volume ones like The Quint, BloombergQuint, Swarajya, and Fortune India. An average month sees hundreds of millions of page views come through our network.
Maintaining a healthy cache hit ratio is the key to scaling a content heavy app. Ensuring requests are served from Cloudflare is faster, and cheaper, as requests do not have to come through to an origin. We actively architect our apps to ensure that we Continue reading
The white box OS startup, which is taking on data center big dogs Cisco and Arista, launched its hardware-agnostic operating system last July.
One analyst puts the eight-year cloud deal France’s largest bank “around or somewhat above $2 billion.”
Mark Kosters joins Donald and I to talk about the history of the whois system.
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Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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StackRox updated its container security platform with additional visibility, profiling, and network management features.
Welcome to the first episode of Day Two Cloud, a new podcast that punctures the marketing hype and digs into the real work required to make the public cloud work for you. My guest Tim Warner walks us through a real-world application migration to Azure and shares lessons learned on scale, automation, and cost control.
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The two operators agreed to a non-binding agreement and plan to build their own 5G networks in some cities.
A basic, layered approach to DNS security can dramatically reduce the chances of DNS and BGP-related compromise. Here are three essential, preventative measures that organizations should implement.
Check your domain registration and protect those logins
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