Telemedicine Company Deploys Cradlepoint for SD-WAN and SD-Perimeter Management
Visio Health used Cradlepoint to create plop-and-go connectivity at healthcare sites using its diagnostic telemedicine carts. Cradlepoint NetCloud offers IoT network and device management, optimized WAN path selection, and a perimeter-secured overlay network.
El cierre de Sri Lanka de los servicios basados en la web genera enormes costos sociales
Un reciente cierre de varios servicios populares basados en la Web en Sri Lanka tuvo como objetivo frenar la violencia de la mafia, pero la acción del gobierno tuvo varias consecuencias imprevistas.
El cierre, ordenado por la administración del presidente Maithripala Sirisena, afectó a Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram y el servicio de llamadas basado en la web Viber. Los servicios se cerraron el 7 de marzo y fueron restaurados el 14 y 15 de marzo.
El gobierno intentó cortar las comunicaciones entre los organizadores de turbas violentas, pero el cierre tuvo un gran impacto en una amplia franja de usuarios de Internet, dijo Sagarika Wickramasekera, presidente del Capítulo Internet Society’s Sri Lanka.
[Read the March 14 statement of the ISOC Sri Lanka Chapter.]
Para obtener más información sobre los cierres de Internet y su costo social y económico, consulte por favor:
- Internet Society Policy Brief: Internet Shutdowns
- Internet Society Perspectives on Internet Content Blocking
- Internet and Human Rights Resource Center
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Sri Lankan Shutdown of Web-Based Services Creates Huge Social Costs
A recent week-long shutdown of several popular Web-based services in Sri Lanka was intended to clamp down on mob violence, but the government action had several unintended consequences.
The shutdown, ordered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s administration, affected Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Web-based calling service Viber. The services shut down on March 7 and were restored on March 14 and 15.
The government’s tried to cut off communications between organizers of violent mobs, but the shutdown had a huge impact on a wide swath of Internet users, said Sagarika Wickramasekera, president of Internet Society’s Sri Lanka chapter.
Because of the loss of social media and calling services, “those who had loved ones in the violence-ridden areas had to go through stressful period of time without any contact with them,” she said.
Facebook-based volunteer groups, civil society activists and other social movements lost contact with their audiences, she added. “This reduced the circulation of validated content and education hence the peace and harmony,” Wickramasekera added. “People had to rely on rumors.”
Businesses and other organizations use WhatsApp and Viber as productivity tools, and their customer communications were disrupted. Small businesses and home-based workers “who were totally depended on social media marketing Continue reading
Linux Foundation Creates Deep Learning Foundation and AI Project
The founding members of LF Deep Learning are Amdocs, AT&T, B.Yond, Baidu, Huawei, Nokia, Tech Mahindra, Tencent, Univa, and ZTE.
Infoblox Integration in Ansible 2.5
The Ansible 2.5 open source project release includes the following Infoblox Network Identity Operating System (NIOS) enablement:
- Five modules
- A lookup plugin (for querying Infoblox NIOS objects)
- A dynamic inventory script
For network professionals, this means that existing networking Ansible Playbooks can utilize existing Infoblox infrastructure for IP Address Management (IPAM), using Infoblox for tracking inventory and more. For more information on Infoblox terminology, documentation and examples, refer to the Infoblox website
Let’s elaborate on each of these Ansible 2.5 additions. All of the following examples (and many more) are provided in the network automation community project, under the infoblox_ansible Github repo. The integrations for Ansible require that the control node (where Ansible is being executed from) have the infoblox-client installed. It can be found here and installed with pip issuing the pip install infoblox-client command.
Ansible Infoblox Modules
There are five new modules included with Ansible 2.5. They can be currently found in the development branch of the documentation:
- nios_host_record - configure host records
- nios_network - configure networking objects
- nios_network_view - configure networking views
- nios_dns_view - configure DNS views
- nios_zone - configure DNS zones
Here is an example playbook on configuring a IPv4 network using the Continue reading
The Week in Internet News: Good Time to Be in IoT Security
Good time to be in IoT security: Spending on Internet of Things security products and services will rise to $1.5 billion in 2018, up 28 percent from 2017, estimates Gartner. IoT security spending will skyrocket to $3 billion a year in 2021, according to a story in DarkReading.
Facebook breached? It was hard to avoid the recent news involving Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm used by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The company acquired data on about 50 million Facebook users – getting the data from a researcher – in an effort to build voting profiles for those people. Facebook has called the unauthorized use of its user data a “breach of trust,” while some critics have suggested it’s a plain old data breach, according to a story on Time.com. Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told CNN he’s happy to comply with congressional requests to testify “if it’s the right thing to do.”
Blockchain takes over the world: Google is planning to roll out a Blockchain feature for its cloud-computing service, The Verge reports. The company could potentially license its Blockchain service for other firms to run on their servers. Meanwhile, Chinese telecom and networking vendor Huawei Continue reading
Network Break 177: Dell Launches New Branch CPE; Sonic In The Spotlight
Take a Network Break! In this week’s show, Dell EMC rolls out new branch hardware to run VNFs, the Sonic switch OS gets its turn in the open networking spotlight, and Innovium announces sampling of its Teralynx programmable ASIC.
The IEEE ratifies a standard for 25Gbps over single-mode fiber, Dropbox embraces security researchers, and Micro Focus suffers a massive drop in value.
Cryptojacking roars onto the threat scene, and Orbitz reports that attackers may have breached a legacy site, exposing up to 880,000 customers.
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Dell EMC Takes on Cisco, Launches Open uCPE for SD-WAN – SDX Central
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Spotlight on Network Transformation
A two-day summit at Interop ITX 2018 featuring industry luminaries Martin Casado and Radia Perlman will focus on how networks need to change to keep up with business demands.
Spotlight on Network Transformation
A two-day summit at Interop ITX 2018 featuring industry luminaries Martin Casado and Radia Perlman will focus on how networks need to change to keep up with business demands.
Dunning-Kruger in IT Infrastructure
Sitting in a taxi driving to CLEUR 2018 in Barcelona we couldn’t resist but complain about the stuff we’re seeing in real-life networks, resulting in someone exclaiming something along the lines of “I can’t understand how someone could do so many stupid things”
Welcome to the wonderful world of Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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