Vodafone Picks Juniper’s SD-WAN for Its Enterprise Services
Vodafone said Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestrator is a key part of the platform because it provides customers with a self-service portal.
Buyer’s Guide: Modern Web-Scale Backup and Recovery
The Buyer’s Guide to Modern Backup is the definitive resource to help you make the right choice for your next data protection solution. Download the buyer's guide today.
History Of Networking – John Fraizer – BGP Route Servers
In this History of Networking episode, John Fraizer joins the Network Collective crew to talk about his involvement in the first IX in the Chicago area and how that lead to the creation of an open source BGP route server.
John Fraizer
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Best Practice Forum on Gender and Access: Empowering Women Online
A Need for More Gender-Disaggregated Data
While Internet access and use is rapidly growing all over the world, women still face several challenges that hinder them from benefiting meaningfully from it. The proportion of women able to access and use the Internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men accessing and using it worldwide. This gap is even bigger in developing countries where only one out of seven women use the Internet.
These numbers highlight some of the discrepancies that the digital gender gap is both producing and reproducing. However, understanding them and to what extent they affect women’s online lives requires more data. While many studies have been conducted in the last few years in order to gather evidence about the existing barriers, there are still many aspects of the phenomenon that need to be studied in-depth, particularly at grassroots levels.
Various recent efforts – including those of the W20, the UN Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the World Wide Web Foundation, the GSMA and Association for Progressive Communications – have expressed concerns about the paucity of gender-disaggregated data and insights on Internet access and use masks the true extent of Continue reading
NFV’s Return on Investment Disappoints Some NFV Players
“We had inflated expectations” because the promise was vendors could easily obtain commodity hardware and “throw some VNFs on it and it would make money," said a Masergy executive.
Bandwidth Alliance: powered by smart routing on Cloudflare’s network
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of cloud providers that have agreed to reduce data transfer fees for mutual customers.
Three things were required to make the Bandwidth Alliance a reality:
- An ecosystem of like-minded companies who want to provide reduced data transfer fees to their customers.
- A large global and well-connected network (Cloudflare has 150+ points of presence around the world and multiple peered and paid links at each location). Our network is connected to thousands of partners through transit providers, Internet exchanges, peering interconnects, and private network interconnects. Having a large network footprint allows us to meet our partners where their infrastructure is and exchange traffic with them over low-cost or free connections, instead of expensive paid transit.
- Argo, our sophisticated traffic routing engine. Argo allows us to make decisions on how to carry traffic across our network in ways that optimize for a number of factors: latency, throughput, jitter, or in the case of the Bandwidth Alliance, cost to our partners to exchange traffic. This routing engine is the technical underpinning of the Bandwidth Alliance.
Typically, as traffic moves across the Internet, packets are exchanged between multiple networks as they Continue reading
Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks
At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. That means making the Internet faster, safer and smarter, but also more efficient alongside our cloud partners. As such, wherever we can, we're on the lookout for ways to help save our common customers money. That got us looking into why and how much cloud customers pay for bandwidth.
If you're hosting on most cloud providers, data transfer charges, sometimes known as "bandwidth” or “egress” charges, can be an integral part of your bill. These fees cover the cost of delivering traffic from the cloud all the way to the consumer. However, if you’re using a CDN such as Cloudflare, the cost of data transfer comes in addition to the cost of content delivery.
In some cases, charging makes sense. If you're hosted in a facility in Ashburn, Virginia and someone visits your service from Sydney, Australia there are real costs to moving traffic between the two places. The cloud provider likely hands off traffic to a transit provider or uses its own global backbone to carry the traffic across the United States and then across the Pacific, potentially handing off to other transit providers along the way, until Continue reading
CNCF, Eclipse Foundation Push Kubernetes to the Edge
The Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group is looking to see how far it can push the centralized Kubernetes platform out into the distributed edge and IoT ecosystem.
Test Web Page Load Time with a Free Chrome Extension
A walk-through shows you how to use a free Chrome extension to measure web page loading times.
Infrastructure-as-Code Tools
This is the fourth blog post in “thinking out loud while preparing Network Infrastructure as Code presentation for the network automation course” series. Previous posts: Network-Infrastructure-as-Code Is Nothing New, Adjusting System State and NETCONF versus REST API.
Dmitri Kalintsev sent me a nice description on how some popular Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools solve the challenges I described in The CRUD Hell section of Infrastructure-as-Code, NETCONF and REST API blog post:
Read more ...Measuring the KSK Roll
It has been a trade-off between waiting long enough to have the key sentinel mechanism deployed in sufficient volume in resolvers to generate statistically valid outcomes and yet start this measurement prior to the planned roll of the KSK on 11th October 2018. These are early results, and reflect less than one week of measurement, but some strong signals are evident in the data.HPE Selects Intel Programmable Card for Data Center Servers
HPE is the first original equipment manufacturer to incorporate the programmable card into its devices.
Microsoft Office 365
This information is extremely useful, allowing traffic analytics software to combine telemetry obtained from network devices with information obtained using the Microsoft REST API in order to identifying clients, links, and devices carrying the traffic, as well as any issues, such as link errors, and congestion, that may be impacting performance.
var api = 'https://endpoints.office.com/endpoints/worldwide';
function uuidv4() {
return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function(c) {
var r = Math.random() * 16 | 0, v = c == 'x' ? r : (r & 0x3 | 0x8);
return v.toString(16);
});
}
var reqid = uuidv4();
function updateAddressMap() {
var res, i, ips, id, groups;
try { res = http(api+'?clientrequestid='+reqid); }
catch(e) { logWarning('request failed ' + e); }
if(res == null) return;
res = JSON.parse(res);
groups Continue reading