SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — June 7, 2018
Verizon debuts software-defined secure branch; Microsoft takes data centers underwater; and T-Mobile, Nokia complete 5G data session.
Weekly 393 – Infrastructure Monitoring with Juniper AppFormix (Sponsored)
Juniper Appformix is a telemetry platform thats multi-vendor, cross layer, built-in machine learning and
with fancy visualisation. Its designed simplify operations and closed-loop automation. In the era of multi-cloud, we need tools that run on-prem or in cloud and support OpenStack, K8s, VMware, Azure, Google, Amazon networks with integration into virtual machines, containers, overlay networks and physical devices.
The ability to draw data from a wide range of sources creates data flood that can overwhelm you. Appformix has machine learning and a range of automation functions to simplify and organise this diverse data flood. The increasing complexity of networks as the the edge of the network expands in multiple dimensions – on and off premises, virtual edge, overlay networks as well the physical devices must all operate in cahoots.
Appformix is automating this operational load so you aren’t getting calls at 2am. Thats a very fine thing.
Sumeet Singh, VP/GM for Juniper AppFormix, kicks off the discussion with a quick intro to Appformix, we cover the key features and the approach of the product before we move into use cases and what customers are using today. Surprisingly, this includes WAN operations in addition to DC/Cloud.
- Start Here: Use cases on network automation and Continue reading
Link Propagation 122: Click It Like You Mean It
Welcome to Link Propagation, a Packet Pushers newsletter. Link Propagation is included in your free Ignition membership.LiveAction Acquires Packet Monitoring Software Provider Savvius
Savvius’ suite of packet monitoring technology will be integrated with LiveAction’s monitoring platforms to give a more complete view into network environments.
CEO Succession at Internet Society – Status update (June 2018)
This is a quick update on the CEO Succession process at the Internet Society (ISOC). For background, please check my previous notes to the community.
As you know, the application window for potential candidates for ISOC’s CEO position closed in early April. Let me update you on where we are in the process.
The process for selecting a new CEO for ISOC is progressing well and is on track. As anticipated, and as a consequence of the broad appeal of the role, the open call for applicants resulted in a significant amount of interest from all around the world. The Board received more than one hundred applications from candidates with a diverse set of backgrounds in business and the private sector, government, the technical community, the global NGO space, and the wider Internet community.
The strength and quality of the applications has been very high and it has been an incredibly tough challenge to identify and evaluate the most suitable candidates for this role from such a large and qualified pool of talent and experience.
Nevertheless, given the importance that the CEO position holds for both ISOC and the Internet as a whole, the deliberation by the Board has been Continue reading
New Blog : http://www.knowpackets.com/
Hello All, New posts will be available on www.knowpackets.com/ from now onwards. Thanks all my readers !!!! AdvertisementsVideo: The Network is Nominal – Two Beer Networking
Working or Not Working. There is no such as a good network, just a working network.
Short Take – Practical Career Advice
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ talks about practical concepts network engineers need to know to succeed in their careers.
Russ White
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A Wireless Brick In The Wall
I had a very interesting conversation today with some friends about predictive wireless surveys. The question was really more of a confirmation: Do you need to draw your walls in the survey plan when deciding where to put your access points? Now, before you all run screaming to the comments to remind me that “YES YOU DO!!!”, there were some other interesting things that were offered that I wanted to expound upon here.
Don’t Trust, Verify
One of the most important parts of the wall question is material. Rather than just assuming that every wall in the building is made from gypsum or from wood, you need to actually go to the site or have someone go and tell you what the building material is made from. Don’t guess about the construction material.
Why? Because not everyone uses the same framing for buildings. Wood beams may be popular in one type of building, but steel reinforcement is used in other kinds. And you don’t want to base your predictive survey on one only to find out it’s the other.
Likewise, you need to make sure that the wall itself is actually made of what you think it is. Find Continue reading
Vestberg Will Replace Lowell McAdam as Verizon CEO
Vestberg is a relative newcomer to Verizon but as the former CEO of Ericsson he has a long history in the telecom industry.
Hackathon@AIS: Testimonies of the Fellows
The Hackathon@AIS is a yearly event, in its second year, aimed at exposing engineers from the Africa region to Open Internet Standards Development. This year, the event was held in Dakar Senegal at the Radisson Blu Hotel, from 9-10 May 2018, during the Africa Internet Summit (AIS-2018).
The event was attended by more than 75 engineers from 15 countries including 11 fellows who were supported to attend the event.
We are happy to share the testimonies of the fellows who attended the Hackathon@AIS.
Adama Assiongbon
Hackathon@AIS has been a very good and enriching experience for me because it is a meeting of ICT sharing especially with the IPWAVE workshop which is a technology of the near future where we will be ready on the African continent to implement this technology and bring more to the development of the continent. It is up to us the beneficiaries of Hackathon@AIS to bring a plus to our communities. The idea of Hackathon is very beneficial for the development of Africa. Thank you AFRINIC and ISOC.
Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong
Coming from Chad, I have found the Hackathon@AIS to be a wonderful and collaborative meeting that I have never seen before. It has allowed me Continue reading
Future Thinking: Arnaud Castaignet on Estonia’s e-citizenship
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. In May 2018, we interviewed Arnaud Castaignet, head of public relations for Estonia’s e-Residency programme.
Mr Arnaud Castaignet is the head of public relations for the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, a government-issued digital ID offering the freedom to join a community of digitally empowered citizens and open and run a global EU company fully online from anywhere in the world. Previously, he worked for the French President François Hollande as a digital strategist. Arnaud is also a Board Member of Open Diplomacy, a Paris-based think tank established in 2010, and a member of the Young Transatlantic Network of Future Leaders, a flagship initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States specifically geared toward young professionals 35 years old and younger. Estonia not only became the first country to say that Internet access was a human right, but has given their citizens free public WiFi, enabled them to vote online since 2005, and are protecting them with strong privacy, transparency Continue reading
APM Overview: Diagnosing Slow Applications
Terry Slattery discusses how application performance monitoring tools can help provide visibility and how to decide if APM is right for your business.
How Erasure Coding Is Evolving
Erasure coding, an alternative to RAID, and is changing to address emerging data resiliency challenges.
Snabb Switch Update on Software Gone Wild
In 2014, we did a series of podcasts on Snabb Switch (Snabb Switch and OpenStack, Deep Dive), a software-only switch delivering 10-20 Gbps of forwarded bandwidth per x86 core. In the meantime, Snabb community slowly expanded, optimized the switching code, built a number of solutions on top of the packet forwarding core, and even forked a just-in-time Lua compiler to get better performance.
To find out the details, listen to Episode 91 of Software Gone Wild in which Luke Gorrie explained how far the Snabb project has progressed in the last four years.