Odd Number of Spines in Leaf-and-Spine Fabrics
In the market overview section of the introductory part of data center fabric architectures webinar I made a recommendation to use larger number of fixed-configuration spine switches instead of two chassis-based spines when building a medium-sized leaf-and-spine fabric, and explained the reasoning behind it (increased availability, reduced impact of spine failure).
One of the attendees wondered about the “right” number of spine switches – does it has to be four, or could you have three or five spines. In his words:
Read more ...Kubernetes Discloses Major Security Flaw
It affects all Kubernetes-based products and services, and it gives hackers full administrative privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster.
December 4 – NRE Labs Outage Post-Mortem
I awoke yesterday to a very crisp Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon. I had just poured myself a nice glass of Stumptown Nitro cold brew coffee, and wandered upstairs to my office for an 8AM conference call. I joined the meeting, and started going through my usual routine - part of which includes looking at the day’s NRE Labs stats. Here’s what I saw: Well, that kind of sucks.December 4 – NRE Labs Outage Post-Mortem
I awoke yesterday to a very crisp Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon. I had just poured myself a nice glass of Stumptown Nitro cold brew coffee, and wandered upstairs to my office for an 8AM conference call. I joined the meeting, and started going through my usual routine - part of which includes looking at the day’s NRE Labs stats. Here’s what I saw: Well, that kind of sucks.December 4 – NRE Labs Outage Post-Mortem
I awoke yesterday to a very crisp Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon. I had just poured myself a nice glass of Stumptown Nitro cold brew coffee, and wandered upstairs to my office for an 8AM conference call. I joined the meeting, and started going through my usual routine - part of which includes looking at the day’s NRE Labs stats. Here’s what I saw: Well, that kind of sucks.AT&T’s White Box Cell-Site Routers Go Into Production Carrying Live Traffic
In 2019 the company will deploy these routers at several thousand towers to support its mobile 5G network.
Container Adoption Has Nearly Doubled in Last Year, Says Portworx Survey
IT professionals list Microsoft Azure as the best cloud provider in terms of cost effectiveness, having the most advanced tools, reliability, and having the best support for container environments.
Microsoft Resellers Including Dell Win $3.2B Deal With US Navy
Almost 900 vendors competed for the 10-year award. The Navy selected six.
The Benin Chapter Wins Chapterthon 2018
The winner of this year’s Chapterthon was announced this Tuesday, 4 December during InterCommunity 2018.
Chapterthon is a global Internet Society (ISOC) Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) marathon, where all the Internet Society members can participate by developing a project within a timeline and budget to achieve a common goal. The project winner is selected by the community through online vote.
This year our community worked on the Internet of Things (IoT) – The future is ours to shape.
Every year, the Chapterthon brings enthusiasm and excitement amongst our community. During two and half months, 43 Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) from across the globe worked alongside to bring awareness on the Internet of Things (IoT) to their communities. They ran over 200 training sessions and workshops, engaging students, entrepreneurs, and local governments. They organized national campaigns, their projects were mentioned in local newspapers, and their message was brought to the most remote places. The Chapters also developed IoT applications that may in the future improve the lives of people in their communities, and amongst some of the projects are improved transport systems, agriculture, energy management, home protection, and healthcare.
The projects that received the highest number Continue reading
VodafoneZiggo Deploys Cisco SON With RAN Automation for 5G
Cisco’s SON technology works in multi-vendor deployments based on any combination of cellular technologies. It supports RAN nodes from any major vendor as well as multiple data-source vendors.
Barefoot Networks Debuts Tofino 2, Using 7nm Technology
This is Barefoot’s second generation release of its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch ASIC family.
ONAP Casablanca Shows Up in ‘All the Gin Joints’
A bunch of service providers from around the world are starting to implement ONAP code into their networks.
EU Terrorist Content Online proposal – political haste and unintended consequences
In September, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal to address the removal of terrorist content online. There has been significant political pressure, particularly as the EU elections of 2019 approach, towards internet companies taking on increased responsibility in the area of terrorist propaganda online. This proposal would be a marked move from various voluntary initiatives taken up by some social media companies in recent times towards a legal responsibility framework for many.
While appreciating the concerns around terrorism, Cloudflare is not only troubled by the late presentation of this proposal – which leaves inadequate time for a thorough review before this EU legislative term expires – but also much of the substance. Along with others such as CDT, GSMA/ETNO and Mozilla, we have significant concerns around the legal implications, practical application and possible unintended consequences of the proposal, some of which we outline below. Furthermore, we believe that little evidence has been presented as to the necessity of the proposed measures.
Concerns and shortcomings
The Commission’s proposal does not account for the complexity and range of information society services having a storage component - not all services have the same Continue reading
South Korea Launches 5G, But Only for Enterprise Users Initially
South Korea is the first nation in Asia to launch commercial 5G networks as KT, LG UPlus, and SK Telecom, switch on services.
Nokia Threat Report: IoT Botnets Skyrocketed in 2018 and 5G Will Make It Worse
“If you have an IoT device and it has any vulnerability and it’s visible from the Internet, it will be attacked in a number of minutes,” said Kevin McNamee, director of Nokia’s Threat Intelligence Lab and lead author of the report.