Instructor Spotlight: Rohit Pardasani
Rohit has been in the networking industry for more than 17 years, with a focus on Cisco networking for the past 15 years. Rohit not only brings his years of teaching experience to the classroom, but also years of real-world enterprise and service provider experience. Rohit has assisted hundreds of engineers in obtaining their CCIE certification, and has been conducting CCIE RS, CCIE SEC, CCIE SP and CCIE Collaboration for Cisco Systems worldwide. Rohit currently holds 5xCCIE’s (Routing Switching, Service Provider, Security, Voice and Collaboration). When not teaching or developing new products, Rohit consults with large ISPs and enterprise customers in India and UK. Rohit is currently pursuing his CCIE Data Center certification.
More Girls in ICT: The Internet Society Signs MoU with the Mexican Government
Women and girls are significantly less likely to choose ICT (Information and Communication Technology) studies than men. There are many reasons for this. Barriers to access, but also retention in ICT studies are complex as they are often related not only to economic but also to social and cultural barriers.
A lot of initiatives are being developed worldwide to break these barriers, and at the Internet Society we believe that only if we join efforts we can overcome them and help to close the digital gender gap.
For this reason, on July 19, the Internet Society and the Secretariat of Communications and Transport of the Mexican government signed a cooperation agreement to support the “Women in STEM, Future Leaders” project.
In Mexico only 35.5% of tertiary graduates in ICT are women. The initiative aims to change these numbers. It provides training and support to young women from public high schools with the purpose of encouraging them to pursue a career in science and ICT.
The program, launched at the beginning of 2018 in coordination with the U.S.-Mexico Foundation, has already reached more than 180 girls from all over the country. It is working closely with 32 Mexican Connected Points (Puntos Mexico Conectados), which are centers that provide Internet access and training to Continue reading
Cradlepoint Q&A: LTE’s Role as a Primary WAN Link
Thanks to all who joined us for the Cradlepoint webinar: LTE’s Role as a Primary WAN Link.
Where in the World is NSX?
VMware NSX is going worldwide! We’ll be out and about through the end of the year, spreading networking and security love across America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Our goal is to help agile organizations move toward a Virtual Cloud Network with consistent connectivity, branch optimization, and security across all infrastructure.
Whether we’ll be at a booth, product demo, talk, or otherwise – we want to connect! Join us at any of the major conferences and NSX upcoming events listed below to chat with our product experts. And, if you think you’ll be in attendance, be sure to tweet at us to let us know!
NSX Upcoming Events
Checkpoint CPX – 2/4
When: February 2 – 4, 2019
Where: Las Vegas, NV
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Networking Field Day – 2/13
When: February 13 – 15, 2019
Where: Palo Alto, CA
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Mobile World Congress – 2/25
When: February 25 – 28, 2019
Where: Barcelona, Spain
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RSAC – 3/4
When: March 4 – 8, 2019
Where: San Francisco, CA
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Cisco Live APJ– 3/5
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The Chief Barrier to Container Adoption Is Persistent Storage, SDxCentral Report Says
Other adoption challenges cited by the report include multi-cloud/cross-data center integration, data management in containerized environments, and security profiles.
BiB 49 – IPinfusion – Its Takes Team to Make a Whitebox – Network Field Day 18
Edgecore Edgecore is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton Producing increasing diversity of network equipment, the range of possible applications of Broadcom silicon. Includes a optical solution the choice to focus on SP is interesting, does this imply that All of these products run IPinfusion software. Broadcom Talking about the breadth of their portfolio […]
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Let’s Not Forget European Operators in Open Source Networking
Deutsche Telekom joins The Linux Foundation.
The Battle Between Network Virtualization Overlay vs. Forklift Upgrade
Many companies find that deploying a network virtualization overlay makes more sense because of the ROI.
T-Mobile Goes Nationwide With NB-IoT
The operator’s new partner program will bring together hardware and software developers.
Steven G. Huter – The 2018 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Winner
With so many moving parts to advancing Internet access and enabling communities to reach the rest of the world, the biggest key to success, according to this year’s Jonathan B. Postel Award winner, is listening.
Steven Huter listens. He says it’s his most important job. The Director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research Associate at the University of Oregon says before configuring community networks and setting Internet development goals, his organization has to make sure they are solving the right problems.
“Listening first to what local Internet developers request and desire in terms of assistance, based on their respective conditions and challenges, is vital for a successful outcome,” Huter says.
Only half the people in the world have Internet access, and the NSRC works on creating “a sustainable community of Internet-savvy engineers and local operators that can enable continuous progress in their countries to bring more affordable Internet access and better network performance for their respective communities.”
Essentially, they go to areas in need, help set up the hardware and digital necessities for Internet access, and train local operators and system workers to handle that network independently. And Huter has been an integral part Continue reading
LiveAction to Release Server Appliance for LiveNX Monitoring Platform
Engineers from Savvius, which LiveAction acquired last month, helped specify the hardware and optimize and test the server image for bare metal installation.
Site Reliability Engineering at the Network Collective
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role often seems a bit mysterious to folks working at smaller and mid-sized companies, where the team isn’t large enough to separate into SRE, operations, and other teams. What does and SRE do, and how is it different from what the average network engineer does? In this Network Collective Off the Cuff, we sit with Michael Kehoe of LinkedIn to discuss the role of the SRE.
ExtremeXOS 22.5.1 adds support Broadcom ASIC table utilization statistics
Figure 1 shows the packet processing pipeline of a Broadcom ASIC. The pipeline consists of a number of linked hardware tables providing bridging, routing, access control list (ACL), and ECMP forwarding group functions. Operations teams need to be able to proactively monitor table utilizations in order to avoid performance problems associated with table exhaustion.
Broadcom's sFlow specification, sFlow Broadcom Switch ASIC Table Utilization Structures, leverages the industry standard sFlow protocol to offer scaleable, multi-vendor, network wide visibility into the utilization of these hardware tables.
The following output from the open source sflowtool command line utility shows the raw table measurements (this is in addition to the extensive set of measurements already exported via sFlow by ExtremeXOS):
bcm_asic_host_entries 4
bcm_host_entries_max 8192
bcm_ipv4_entries 0
bcm_ipv4_entries_max 0
bcm_ipv6_entries 0
bcm_ipv6_entries_max 0
bcm_ipv4_ipv6_entries 9
bcm_ipv4_ipv6_entries_max 16284
bcm_long_ipv6_entries 3
bcm_long_ipv6_entries_max 256
bcm_total_routes 10
bcm_total_routes_max 32768
bcm_ecmp_nexthops 0
bcm_ecmp_nexthops_max 2016
bcm_mac_entries 3
bcm_mac_entries_max 32768
bcm_ipv4_neighbors 4
bcm_ipv6_neighbors 0
bcm_ipv4_routes 0
bcm_ipv6_routes 0
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Securing U.S. Democracy: Athenian Project Update
Last December, Cloudflare announced the Athenian Project to help protect U.S. state and local election websites from cyber attack.
Since then, the need to protect our electoral systems has become increasingly urgent. As described by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, the “digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.” Just last week, we learned new details about how state election systems were targeted for cyberattack during the 2016 election. The U.S. government’s indictment of twelve Russian military intelligence officers describes the scanning of state election-related websites for vulnerabilities and theft of personal information related to approximately 500,000 voters.
This direct attack on the U.S. election systems using common Internet vulnerabilities reinforces the need to ensure democratic institutions are protected from attack in the future. The Athenian Project is Cloudflare’s attempt to do our part to secure our democracy.
Engaging with Elections Officials
Since announcing the Athenian Project, we’ve talked to state, county, and municipal officials around the country about protecting their election and voter registration websites. Today, we’re proud to report that we have Athenian Project participants in 19 states, and are in talks with many more. We have also strategized with civil Continue reading
Rethink Your Security Infrastructure
A software-driven approach to security makes advanced capabilities possible even on a tight budget.
Bienvenue au Chapitre ISOC Madagascar! 35e Chapitre de l’Internet Society en Afrique.
Le Directeur Régional Afrique de l’Internet Society (ISOC), Dr. Dawit Bekele a rejoint la communauté Internet de Madagascar les 15 et 16 Juin 2018 pour l’inauguration du Chapitre ISOC Madagascar (ISOC Madagascar Chapter), le 35e Chapitre de l’Internet Society en Afrique. Cette inauguration a été marquée par une série de deux conférences : la première a eu lieu le 15 juin 2018 à l’Akademia Malagasy sur le thème «Quel Internet voulons-nous réellement à Madagascar ? », et la seconde le 16 juin 2018 à l’Hôtel du Louvre sur le thème «Future de l’Internet : Enjeux et Opportunités». Dr. Bekele a profité de cette occasion pour présenter l’Internet Society à la Communauté Internet malgache et discuter des opportunités de collaboration et de partenariat pour le développement d’un Internet pour tous, ouvert, sécurisé et digne de confiance à Madagascar.
Pendant la première conférence du 15 juin 2018, Dawit a discuté avec toutes les parties prenantes de l’écosystème Internet malgache sur l’état des lieux, les challenges et opportunités du développement de l’Internet à Madagascar. Il a profité pour présenter les axes prioritaires (campagnes) de l’Internet Society pour l’année 2018 avec un accent particulier sur l’alternative Réseaux Communautaires comme solution durable pour connecter Continue reading