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It may be tempting to take drastic measures to protect the network, but the results can be a bit problematic.
EMA research found that enterprises use network analytics technology to automate a variety of networking tasks for increased uptime and other benefits.
Remember the IPv6 elephant in the room – the inability to do small-site multihoming without NAT (well, NPT66)? IPv6 is old enough to buy its own beer, but the elephant is still hogging the room. Tons of ideas have been thrown around in IETF (mostly based on source address selection tricks), but none of that spaghetti stuck to the wall.
Read more ...In our last post, we removed our last piece of static configuration and replaced static routes with BGP. We’re going to pick up right where we left off and discuss another use case for MPLS – MPLS VPNs. Really – we’re talking about two different things here. The first is BGP VPNv4 address families used for route advertisement. The second is using MPLS as a data plane to reach the prefixes being announced by VPNv4 address family. If that doesn’t make sense yet – don’t worry – it will be pretty clear by the end of the post. So as usual – let’s jump right into this and talk about our lab setup.
As I mentioned in the last post, setting up BGP was a prerequisite to this post – so since that’s the case – Im going to pick up right where I left off. So I’ll post the lab topology picture here for the sake of posting a lab topology – but if you want to get your configuration prepped – take a look at the last post. At the end of the last post we had our Continue reading
I’ve seen a number of blogs and articles describing what network automation is and what it entails, and in many cases, the descriptions end up frightening people who haven’t yet started down an automation path. The biggest question when starting any of these sorts of projects is the simplest: should you automate at all?
My answer to that first question (Spoiler alert: it’s yes, but let me explain why) is that it depends on your network itself. For years, before I was involved with networking at the operating system level, I worked on network management and automation products. Often, I’d tell my customers that if they were happy with the status quo, then I certainly wouldn’t force them down a particular path or to use a particular product. However, if you’re a bit fed up with the manual steps involved in updating a device operating system or configuring a device, then you should look into automation to save yourself time and headaches. Of course, if you only have three devices and they get updated yearly, maybe don’t bother. But if you believe automation will provide the solutions you’re looking for, there are some first steps for automation that you Continue reading
The company also launched an integrated data center security architecture that includes four Cisco products.
The Internet Society is concerned with the continuous disruptions of Internet and social media services in Chad in the month of April, 2018.
Internet shutdowns are not a solution to political and economic challenges.
Government ordered disruptions have been reported from 2nd of April 2018, in the context of political protests and unrest across the country. This is not the first time Internet access has been suspended in Chad. In January 2018, the Internet was disrupted following demonstrations organized by civil society organizations. Again in 2016, Chad experienced an eight-month social media cutoff following controversial elections in 2016.
While we recognize that the Chadian government has a duty to maintain public order, there is little evidence on the benefits of shutdowns in preventing any sort of violent protests. On the other hand, there is growing evidence on the collateral damages resulting from taking people off the network.
One of these damages is economic. These disruptions have been estimated to have costed the country €18 million (approximately 13 billion CFA francs), according to Internet Without Borders. These are extremely conservative numbers that do not even take into account a set of cumulative economic factors.
Shutdowns also affect thousands of local entrepreneurs Continue reading
Riverbed CEO retires; Manoj Leelanivas returns to Juniper; and Microsoft reorganizes.