Where Have All the SDN Controllers Gone?
Long time passing. Where have all the SDN Controllers gone? Long time ago.
I Won’t Be Making Cat8 Cables
Couple of things from watching these vendor videos on making Cat8A cable in the field: Cat 8 cable is very thick and not going to bend much inside the rack. The typical bend radius for a shielded category cable is 8 times the cables outside diameter. This is to ensure the shield and the relationship […]
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Working Together the Internet Way to Build Success in North America
One of the most common lines you’ll hear in the virtual halls of the Internet Society is that the Internet’s success is due to its open, distributed, and global nature.
Think about it. A network of voluntarily-connected networks changed the course of history in a matter of decades because people agreed to work and innovate together. It’s a deeply profound source of inspiration about the power of humankind.
It practically begs the question: can we replicate even a portion of its success by embodying the “the Internet way” of working in North America?
The answer is yes.
As part of this, one thing is strikingly clear. Chapters and partners are the lifeblood of the organization. They are critical to working more closely with communities at the front lines of our work.
The Internet’s own globally-operable infrastructure proves the infinite potential of what can happen when people work together. In the same way, we will come together as a diverse community to help define future priorities.
We’ve already seen successes in the North American region that show how closer collaboration with Chapters and partners can help us reach new levels of success.
Enhancing IoT Security
Canada is changing how countries around Continue reading
More Than 100 Operators Have Launched LPWAN Globally, Says GSA
Operators are showing increasing signs of launching both NB-IoT and LTE-M, although NB-IoT...
BiB 074: Replace iSCSI With NVMe/TCP From Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs has announced a software defined storage with hardware acceleration product. In a nutshell, the product is a global flash translation layer that decouples SSDs and compute. Put your compute wherever, mount a box full of fast storage via Lightbits using the NVMe over TCP protocol, and get storage latency that performs like directly attached storage, but without the waste of space. Lightbits is aiming this offering at folks running their own composable stack who want an API and storage speed. But another big winning use case? iSCSI replacement. Hmm...interesting!
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Automating NSX-T
An attendee of our Building Network Automation Solutions online course decided to automate his NSX-T environment and sent me this question:
I will be working on NSX-T quite a lot these days and I was wondering how could I automate my workflow (lab + production) to produce a certain consistency in my work.
I’ve seen that VMware relies a lot on PowerShell and I’ve haven’t invested a lot in that yet … and I would like to get more skills and become more proficient using Python right now.
Always select the most convenient tool for the job, and regardless of personal preferences PowerShell seems to be the one to use in this case.
Read more ...Amazon’s Werner Vogels: ‘Dance Like Nobody’s Watching. Encrypt Like Everyone Is’
AWS built encryption into nearly all of its 165 cloud services, Vogels said. “Make use of it.”
Hyperscale Operators Are Driving Colocation Market Growth
This follows data from Synergy Research Group that hyperscale operators increased their capex by 48...
What Is the Internet Model of Networking?
Fundamentally, the Internet model is that independent networks connect to one another and, all together, provide the global Internet.
The independent networks may be enterprises with business services and employees connected to them, they may be cloud service providers or residential Internet service providers. They are independent in the way that they choose their business models, build and manage their networks, and compete with their neighbors; they offer, however, global connectivity by adhering (voluntarily) to a set of open Internet standards that enable interoperability. To connect on the Internet is inherently to do so voluntarily via open protocols. A different architecture might use different choices, but these are the ones the Internet uses.
All these independent networks interoperate and form an Internet by participating in a global routing system, subject only to technical standards and agreements with neighbors (the technical terms here are peering and transit). The magic of the Internet is that in order to communicate between a mobile phone connected to a broadband provider in the Netherlands and a server in a data center in Kenya, the two networks at either end of the connection do not need a relationship with each other. The magic of the Continue reading
EC Wants 5G Security Risks to be Assessed, But Does Not Ban Huawei
The European Commission is seeking unity among member states on future 5G security, and leaves any...
Social Media, Limits, and Productivity
If there is one question I get most often, it is “how do you get so much done?” One answer to this question is: I limit my use of social media. There is, another angle to social media use which is a bit more… philosophical.
Some of you might know that I am currently working on a PhD in Philosophy—which might seem like an odd thing to do for someone who has been in the engineering world for, well, pretty much my entire life. My particular area of study, however, is what might be called media ecology and humanness. How do these two interact? What impact does, for instance, social media have on things like human freedom and dignity?
Social media (and mediated reality in general) has a bad habit of making people into objects—objectification is just part of the mediation process. If you go “all in” to the mediated world, then you become wholly mediated. This is ultimately dehumanizing, and a very bad thing.
Returning to the first question I raised above: what impact does social media have on my use of time? Does it make me more or less productive?
If we think social media does have Continue reading