White Box OS Startup Arrcus Takes On Cisco, Arista, and Juniper
CEO Devesh Garg says the company’s operating system isn’t limited by legacy software or hardware and can take advantage of innovations in the underlying silicon.
ISP Design – Building production MPLS networks with IP Infusion’s OcNOS.
Moving away from incumbent network vendors
One of the challenges service providers have faced in the last decade is lowering the cost per port or per MB while maintaining the same level of availability and service level.
And then add to that the constant pressure from subscribers to increase capacity and meet the rising demand for realtime content.
This can be an especially daunting task when routers with the feature sets ISPs need cost an absolute fortune – especially as new port speeds are released.
Whitebox, also called disaggregated networking, has started changing the rules of the game. ISPs are working to figure out how to integrate and move to production on disaggregated models to lower the cost of investing in higher speeds and feeds.
Whitebox often faces the perception problem of being more difficult to implement than traditional vendors – which is exactly why I wanted to highlight some of the work we’ve been doing at iparchitechs.com integrating whitebox into production ISP networks using IP Infusion’s OcNOS.
Things are really starting to heat up in the disaggregagted network space after the announcement by Amazon a few days ago that it intends to build and sell whitebox Continue reading
ISP Design – Building production MPLS networks with IP Infusion’s OcNOS.
Moving away from incumbent network vendors
One of the challenges service providers have faced in the last decade is lowering the cost per port or per MB while maintaining the same level of availability and service level.
And then add to that the constant pressure from subscribers to increase capacity and meet the rising demand for realtime content.
This can be an especially daunting task when routers with the feature sets ISPs need cost an absolute fortune – especially as new port speeds are released.
Whitebox, also called disaggregated networking, has started changing the rules of the game. ISPs are working to figure out how to integrate and move to production on disaggregated models to lower the cost of investing in higher speeds and feeds.
Whitebox often faces the perception problem of being more difficult to implement than traditional vendors – which is exactly why I wanted to highlight some of the work we’ve been doing at iparchitechs.com integrating whitebox into production ISP networks using IP Infusion’s OcNOS.
Things are really starting to heat up in the disaggregagted network space after the announcement by Amazon a few days ago that it intends to build and sell whitebox Continue reading
AWS Adds EC2 Compute Processing to Its Snowball Edge Device
By using Amazon compute EC2 instances on their Snowball Edge devices, customers can enable those devices to function as a mobile data center.
Corelight and Databricks Combine Forces for Threat Detection, Remediation, and Analytics
Both Corelight and Databricks are based on open source technologies — Corelight on Bro and Databricks on Apache Spark. While the open source technologies have been combined, this is the first time the companies' commercial versions of software will integrate.
Thoughts on Impostor Syndrome
How many times, on reading my blog, a book, or watching some video of mine over these many years (the first article I remember writing that was publicly available, many years ago, was the EIGRP white paper on Cisco Online, somewhere in 1997), have you thought—here is an engineer who has it all together, who knows technology in depth and breadth, and who symbolizes everything I think an engineer should be? And yet, how many times have you faced that feeling of self-doubt we call impostor synddome?
I am going to let you in on a little secret. I’m an impostor, too. After all these years, I still feel like I am going to be speaking in front of a crowd, explaining something at a meeting, I am going to hit publish on something, and the entire world is going to “see through the charade,” and realize I’m not all that good of an engineer. That I am an ordinary person, just doing ordinary things.
While I often think about these things, what has led me down the path of thinking about them this week is some reading I’ve been doing for a PhD seminar about human nature, work Continue reading
Orange Plucks Basefarm Cloud Biz for $410 Million
The deal will add data management, big data, and multi-cloud support to Orange Business Services. It also expands its footprint across Europe.
Google Building Trans-Atlantic Subsea Cable
Cloud giant expands network capacity with private subsea cable called Dunant, its latest submarine cable investment.
The Rise of Lifecycle Service Orchestration
This SDxCentral eBook looks at how LSO is evolving and why it will play an important part in the management and control of network services across different network domains.
The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership
At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create the right leaders and disruptive technology for market transitions and Arista’s evolution. Today I digress a bit, as I was reading a 2017 Harvard Business Review article on the four key traits identified for successful CEOs. So much of it resonated with me with respect to the Arista way and our company culture. Let’s review how these traits apply to a fast-paced technology company like Arista.
The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership
At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create the right leaders and disruptive technology for market transitions and Arista’s evolution. Today I digress a bit, as I was reading a 2017 Harvard Business Review article on the four key traits identified for successful CEOs. So much of it resonated with me with respect to the Arista way and our company culture. Let’s review how these traits apply to a fast-paced technology company like Arista.
Insider Threat Management Startup ObserveIT Closes $33M Series B
One-quarter of all security incidents involve insiders, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
Innovative Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Communities
In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted its first Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event brought together over 200 Indigenous community members to talk about Internet access solutions, and the importance of connectivity for socioeconomic, health, community empowerment, education, and cultural and language preservation.
It was an incredible two days that resulted in new, meaningful relationships, partnerships, and opportunities for all those present. But the work isn’t done yet.
Connectivity in Indigenous communities continues to lag far behind non-Indigenous areas. Low speeds or non-existent service, high costs, and data caps plague many communities. In some Arctic communities in Canada, it is often cheaper and faster to mail a USB drive south, upload data, and mail it back North than it is to download the content on the slow and expensive services available.
To continue the conversation that was started in Santa Fe, the Internet Society will hold the second Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada on October 11-12. This event will bring together Indigenous community leaders, technical experts, researchers, policy makers, and service providers to address the unique connectivity issues Alaska Native, American Indian, Inuit, First Nation, and Métis communities face and how they Continue reading