A more secure Wi-Fi: The Wi-Fi Alliance has released the new WPA2 standard for WiFi that’s designed to mitigate several long-standing security problems. Among the fixes: The new standard mandates stronger WiFi passwords, Wired.com reports. The new standard also will include 192-bit encryption. The alliance also published the new WiFi Easy Connect protocol, designed for IoT devices that have limited or no display, says SlashGear.
Wait for us, says email: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the organizations behind the HTTPS-encryption initiative Let’s Encrypt, has launched an email server encryption project called STARTTLS Everywhere. The project is designed to help admins run more secure email servers, Engadget reports.
AI targets fraud: Insurers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence technologies to root out fraud, Fast Company says. AI can help pick out inconsistencies and unusual patterns to identify “sophisticated rings of fraudsters rigging auto accidents” and people exaggerating the worth of their damaged property.
AI also examines eruptions: Scientists at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo are using AI to help predict the types of eruptions coming from volcanos, says Phys.org. By examining tiny particles of volcanic ash, the AI is predicting the types of eruptions coming from Continue reading
On many fronts, hard-disk drives are losing ground to faster and more efficient flash-based drives.
Get ready for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)!
In conversations I often hear people using the word “mutable”. Typically it would be something similar to the following.
The IP TTL is a mutable field and decreases as it traverses a router.
If we look up the word “mutable” we find that it is something that is likely to change.
So the IP TTL is a great example of a mutable field. That value is expected to decrease at each hop throughout the network.
By contrast, IP Source Address, Destination Address, and Protocol would be immutable because it is not normal for those to change. They should stay constant from source to destination.
I know someone might consider something like NAT or PAT to change some of these attributes. While that is true, I still would not consider those mutable fields.
Did you know that Juniper vQFX images are available in Vagrant Cloud? There is vQFX RE image and vQFX PFE one. You can use only RE image to build simple topologies, or pair every RE with PFE to use more complex protocols. There is also a bunch of examples in Juniper’s github repository.
What is Vagrant? Let me quote official website: “Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. Vagrant gives you a disposable environment and consistent workflow for developing and testing infrastructure management scripts.” I hope you already knew that. And I also hope there is no need to present Ansible.
I played with this stuff a little bit and created a couple of new examples using full vQFX option (e.g. RE+PFE for every box) – IP fabric and EVPN-VXLAN fabric.
This is really easy way if you want to get yourself familiar with configuration of IP fabric and EVPN-VXLAN on QFX (and some Ansible as well), but don’t want to spend time figuring out how to set everything up in GNS3 or EVE-NG.
Just a few simple steps:
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Few people are using containers so why are all the vendors into it ?
Today on the Weekly Show, the Packet Pushers officially launch Ignition, our new membership site.
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We also spend some time reviewing the state of the networking industry, including a look at the true drivers of automation, whether Intent-Based Networking is a real thing, why legacy networking vendors are flocking to multicloud as a strategy, the trend of AI-washing, and whether SD-WAN is going to kill private circuits.
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Interesting slides from this update.
Sales of Ethernet switches are surging, buoyed by network upgrades in both the campus and data center, according to market researchers.
The collaborative platform received an update this week but analysts have noted that uptake of the service remains elusive.
Tintri continues to dissolve, slashes employees; AT&T buys AppNexus for $1.6 billion; Microsoft Azure IoT Edge is open sourced on GitHub.
Mode's intelligent routing algorithms give enterprises private network reliability and quality of service that they can then combine with SD-WAN and last-mile internet.
The company’s platform “preempts” threats (hence the name) based on identity, behavior, and risk. One of its new investors — Blackstone — started as a customer.
The sudden absence of a major telecom vendor has caused some big ripple effects. For instance, ZTE pulled out of Mobile World Congress in Shanghai this week.