Ciena Inflates Software Control to Reduce Network Complexity
The company is expanding the reach of its SOAS software to boost IP capabilities and integrating Layer 3 expertise from its Packet Design acquisition.
Splintering the Internet: The Unintended Consequence of Regulation
In early 2000, two Paris-based, anti-racism groups sued Yahoo on the basis that its auction’s site was exposing French people to more than 1,000 objects of Nazi memorabilia. In May of that year, a French court confirmed the illegal nature of the sale under French law, claiming that the company had offended France’s “collective memory.” More importantly, the judge also ordered Yahoo to identify ways to block French users from its Nazi auction site or other Yahoo sites with content deemed to be racist.
The case attracted significant attention, due to the legal precedent it could set on the right of one country to reach across borders and impose its own laws on online material stored in other countries. At the time, Yahoo’s lawyer expressed his hope that “other countries [wouldn’t] take the same route.”
Fast forward 18 years and today’s Internet is going through an intense phase of regulation with similar effects to those of the Yahoo case. Almost every country in the world is currently in the business of “regulating the Internet.” A clarification is important at this stage. “Internet regulation” is a somewhat loaded and misguided phrase. In reality, what most state actors seek Continue reading
PQ 157: How Cisco Built A Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Priority Queue podcast we take a deep dive into Cisco's IOS-XR network OS to learn what it takes to build a carrier-grade NOS, including its microservices architecture, multiple levels of abstraction, and how it captures and shares state data.
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Juniper Nxtwork – Hackathon 2018
This year while at Juniper Nxtwork 2018 I had the privilege of attending the pre-event Hackathon on Tuesday, October 9th, 2018. …
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Warum ich Cloudflare helfe in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz zu wachsen
Warum Cloudflare ?
Ich übernehme bei Cloudflare die Verantwortung für die DACH Region (Deutschland, Austria & Switzerland-CH), um das Geschäft von Cloudflare in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz zu erweitern. Die einzigartige Mission von Cloudflare ein besseres Internet zu gestalten, ist der Grund, warum ich diese Verantwortung übernommen habe. Heute kann ich es kaum erwarten dieses Ziel zu erreichen.
Cloudflare trägt dazu bei 10 Millionen Domains schneller und sicherer zu machen indem die Kunden gegen eine große Anzahl von Online-Angriffen geschützt werden und gleichzeitig die Verfügbarkeit garantiert wird. Dies ist die Grundlage für jedes erfolgreiche Geschäft.
Sicherheit, Datenschutz und Geschwindigkeit sind Schlüsselfunktionen für fast jedes Unternehmen: von sehr großen traditionellen bis hin zu reinen Online-Unternehmen oder Einzelpersonen, die ihre eigene persönliche Marke aufbauen. Dazu könnte ich endlos weitere Beispiele nennen und je mehr ich über Cloudflare’s Mission erfahre desto mehr bin ich begeistert.
Eine von Cloudflare’s größten Stärken ist das globale Netzwerk.
Cloudflare verfügt bereits über Rechenzentren in sieben Städten der DACH Region (weitere folgen), um sicherzustellen, dass das Internet für die Nutzer in der Region schnell, sicher und zuverlässig ist.
Ich bin stolz, das erste Büro in Deutschland eröffnen zu dürfen. Gleichzeitig habe ich Continue reading
Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Why Cloudflare?
I am incredibly excited to announce that I’m joining Cloudflare as the Head of DACH to help to expand Cloudflare’s demand in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Having been in the technology industry for many years, Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet was frankly the reason I joined, and I’m now very eager to start working towards this.
I quickly learned how Cloudflare helps to speed up and secure over 10 million Internet properties by protecting these customers from a wide range of online attacks and providing the reliability needed to run strong businesses. Security, privacy, and performance are key drivers for almost every business: from large traditional enterprises to purely online businesses and even individuals building their own personal brand. I could go on and on. The more I learned, the more excited I became.
One of Cloudflare’s major strengths is its global network. Cloudflare already has data centers in seven cities in the DACH region (with more to come) helping to ensure the Internet is fast, safe, and reliable for users online in the region. So while I get the honor of opening our first office in Germany (in Munich), I loved that Cloudflare had Continue reading
What to Look for in a Network Monitoring Application
Keeping tabs on network operations and performance is a 24x7 job. The right monitoring application makes the task easier.
Leaf-and-Spine Fabric Myths (Part 3)
Evil CCIE concluded his long list of leaf-and-spine fabric myths (more in part 1 and part 2) with a layer-2 fabric myth:
Layer 2 Fabrics can't be extended beyond 2 Spine switches. I had a long argument with a $vendor guys on this. They don't even count SPB as Layer 2 fabric and so forth.
The root cause of this myth is the lack of understanding of what layer-2, layer-3, bridging and routing means. You might want to revisit a few of my very old blog posts before moving on: part 1, part 2, what is switching, layer-3 switches and routers.
Read more ...The Road to Success – Not Always Straight
A lot of people look to me for mentoring and advice. When you see someone in the industry having success, it’s easy to think that they know it all and never have any setbacks, that their career was a straight path to success from day one. When I look at someone like Ivan Pepelnjak, a person I have a tremendous respect for, I imagine him knowing it all from day one. Of course, in reality, he had to learn it the hard way like the rest of us.
A couple of days ago I thought about writing a little about my background. To show people that it’s normal to have some bumps in your career and that success is not achieved overnight.
When I think back of my career so far, there’s two or three things that really bother me and where I had to learn some hard lessons.
When I was done with upper secondary school, I was SO tired of school. I had no motivation. My grades were mediocre. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. All I knew was that I had an interest in IT and that I was going to go Continue reading
How SD-WAN as a Service Solves MPLS Limitations
Having your SD-WAN delivered as-a-service helps simply the network and free up IT resources to focus on growth generating opportunities.
Cato Networks Adds Self-Healing Capability to Its SD-WAN
It also released an SD-WAN device built specifically for data centers. Previously, it only had a branch device that couldn’t fully meet data centers’ needs.
Dell EMC Dips Its Toes Into Security With Cyber Recovery Software
The new software shows how the lines between traditional backup and recovery and data security are being blurred.
My First Grace Hopper Celebration
Cloudflare #GHC18 team
I am 25+ years into my career in technology, and this was the very first time I attended a conference geared towards women.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Grace Hopper Celebration (#GHC18), and I can still feel the exuberant energy from the 22,000 women over the intensive 3 day conference. I attended with our Cloudflare team; our purpose was to connect with women in the greater tech community and recruit new talent to join our team and mission to help build a better Internet.
Cloudflare prioritizes GHC because we recognize that diversity in our company, and particularly in our technical departments, is crucial to our success. We believe that the best companies are diverse companies. This was Cloudflare’s second time sponsoring GHC, and I was part of the planning committee. This year I headed to the event with 20 of my colleagues to meet all of the incredible attendees, hold on-site interviews, and even host our own Cloudflare panel and luncheon.
Getting to #GHC18
Early Tuesday morning, the day before the conference, as I joined the Southwest Airlines boarding line at Oakland Airport, my fellow passengers were not the usual contingent of Continue reading