SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Sept. 21
Nokia Slashes 500 Jobs; Oracle Cloud Exec on Extended Leave; SK Telecom Picks 5G Vendors Nokia will cut 500 jobs in Illinois by year-end as part of a restructuring plan. Oracle executives declined to elaborate about the company’s cloud chief taking an extended leave from work. SK Telecom ignored Chinese vendor Huawei and picked Nokia,... Read more →
Exfo Service Assurance VNFs Give ‘Eyes’ to ONAP With Amdocs NFV Integration
Exfo is onboarding its service assurance VNFs into the Amdocs NFV software and services portfolio, which is powered by ONAP.
Writing Is Hard
Writing isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do. There are a lot of times that people sit down to pour out their thoughts onto virtual paper and nothing happens. Or they spend hours and hours researching a topic only to put something together that falls apart because of assumptions about a key point that aren’t true.
The world is becoming more and more enamored with other forms of media. We like listening to podcasts instead of reading. We prefer short videos instead of long articles. Visual aids beat a wall of text any day. Even though each of these content types has a script it still feels better having a conversation. Informal chat beats formal prose every day.
Written Wringers
I got into blogging because my typing fingers are way more eloquent than the thoughts running through my brain. I had tons of ideas that I needed to put down on paper and the best way to do that was to build a simple blog and get to it. It’s been eight years of posting and I still feel like I have a ton to say. But it’s not easy to make the words flow all the time.
There’s a Group Working on an Open Source Silicon Instruction Set
The RISC-V initiative is creating a free and open instruction set architecture for the next generation of chipsets.
Research Brief: Cutting through the SD-WAN Confusion: A Handy Guide for Enterprises
SDxCentral's latest research brief is aimed at providing enterprises contemplating purchasing SD-WAN solutions with a concrete five-step process and a set of core considerations critical to success.
What’s Ahead at the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference
Today the Internet Society published a matrix of issues that will be discussed at the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary treaty conference (PP-18) in Dubai next month. The matrix reflects common proposals adopted recently at some of the ITU’s regional preparatory meetings. It is intended to aid our community in preparations and serve as a useful guide on where governments stand on some of the issues that are important to the Internet Society community. Note that the matrix will be updated periodically as individual country proposals are submitted closer to the conference date. Based on the input from governments so far, Internet Governance, emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Over-the-Top (OTT) applications and services will rank high on the agenda at the Plenipotentiary.
While the Plenipotentiary happens every four years, it comes at a time when Internet Governance stakes are particularly high, as governments’ response to the borderless nature of Internet issues such as cybersecurity and data privacy is intensifying, and support for multilateral solutions to deal with them grows. Those that favor a multilateral governance approach might view the ITU’s international cooperation framework for global telecommunications as the natural vector into Continue reading
Cyber Threat Alliance Reports 459% Spike in Cryptomining Malware
“If you’ve got mining happening on your network, you probably have other bad stuff happening on your network, and it’s probably much worse than mining,” said CTA’s Neil Jenkins.
GitLab Gets $100M Series D, Hits $1B Valuation
The software repository used the news to take a swipe at rival GitHub, which Microsoft purchased for $7.5 billion.
T-Mobile’s Post-Merger 5G Plans Include Home Broadband
The Sprint T-Mobile combo will have the capacity and coverage to offer fixed 5G wireless to homes in more than 50 percent of the U.S.
Weekly Show 408: Running Secure Ethernet Fabrics With Extreme Networks (Sponsored)
On today's Weekly Show podcast we dive into Fabric Connect with sponsor Extreme Networks and a customer. We get a real-world look at how Fabric Connect creates an Ethernet fabric across the network, and what that means for operations, security, and automation.
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SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — September 21, 2018
Dell EMC brings hardware production in-house, dumps Celestica; Microsoft buys AI firm Lob; and Deutsche Telekom makes updates to Bavaria mobile network.
The Second Annual Global People’s Summit: Imagine a World with Equal Opportunities
On 22nd of September Internet Society President and CEO, Andrew Sullivan, will take the stage in New York as part of the 2nd annual Global People’s Summit, an event dedicated to bringing new voices forward on some of the world’s most pressing issues.
We invite you to be a part of it. Here’s how:
Time: 12:20 EST / 18:20 CET
Date: 22nd September 2018
URL: https://www.globalpeoplesummit.org/
As the Internet Society believes that to build a future where the Internet is truly for everyone, everyone needs to be part of it. The Global People’s Summit is a great way make sure some of the voices we never hear can BE heard. Now it’s up to policy and decision makers to listen.
Join us on Saturday and use the hashtag #CountMyVoice along with #GlobalPeople and stand up for a digital future where your voice counts.
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Top 3 Takeaways from the 2018 Mobile World Congress Americas
5G, intelligent connectivity, and shifting networking to the edge were some of the top topics of discussion at last week's Mobile World Congress Americas
Juniper QFX5110 | VMware NSX ESG | BGP Route Policy
This post follows on from a previous article which detailed how to establish a BGP peering session between Juniper QFX and VMware NSX Edge Gateway. This time we’ll take a look at how to configure BGP route policy and BGP filters.
Overview
When working with BGP, it’s important to consider how BGP routes are imported and exported. In certain scenarios, you may find that the default BGP import and export behaviour is sufficient. But more often than not, you will want to implement an import and export policy in order to control how traffic flows through your network. Here’s a quick reminder of the default behaviours:-
Default Import Policy
- Accept all BGP routes learned from configured BGP neighbors and import them into the relevant routing table.
Default Export Policy
- Do not advertise routes learned from IBGP neighbors to any other configured IBGP neighbor. Unless acting as a route reflector.
- Readvertise all active BGP routes to all configured BGP neighbors.
In the following scenario, we’re going to configure BGP import and export policies on Juniper QFX Switches and VMware NSX Edge Gateways. The Juniper QFX switches will be configured to export a default route (0.0.0.0/0) towards the Continue reading