IPv6 Adoption Still Lags In Federal Agencies
On September 28, 2010, Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO at the time, issued a “Transition to IPv6” memorandum noting that “The Federal government is committed to the operational deployment and use of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).” The memo described specific steps for agencies to take to “expedite the operational deployment and use of IPv6”, and laid out target deadlines for key milestones. Of specific note, it noted that agencies shall “Upgrade public/external facing servers and services (e.g. web, email, DNS, ISP services, etc) to operationally use native IPv6 by the end of FY 2012.”
For this sixth “launchiversary” of the World IPv6 Launch event, we used historical Internet Intelligence data collected from Oracle Dyn’s Internet Guide recursive DNS service to examine IPv6 adoption trends across federal agencies both ahead of the end of FY 2012 (September 2012) deadline, as well as after it.
Background
The data set used for this analysis is similar to the one used for the recent “Tracking CDN Usage Through Historical DNS Data” blog post, but in this case, it only includes .gov hostnames. While the memorandum calls out the use of IPv6 for ‘web, email, DNS, ISP services, etc.’, in order Continue reading
Datanauts 137: Automating Infrastructure As Code With Terraform
The robotic production facilities on board the Datanauts’ dreadnought cruiser are really great at making scout drones for identifying rich mineral deposits. Sadly, our probe production numbers are fairly low right now, because every single build is done by hand.
Blasphemy! We need a way to simply define the end state of our drone creation and then let an orchestration engine handle all of the building. Plus, if the design changes, we need to make sure all of the existing drones are retrofitted to take advantage of the new improvements! What can be done?!
Our guest today is Ned Bellavance. We pick Ned’s brain about infrastructure as code and his hands-on experience with HashiCorp’s Terraform.
Find Out More About Terraform
- Datanauts Episode 71 with Mitchell Hashimoto
http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/datanauts-071-everything-code-hashicorp/ - Datanauts Episode 92 with Brett Johnson
http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/datanauts-092-microsoft-mcsa-lab-creation-chef/ - Hashicorp Training
https://www.hashicorp.com/training
Follow Ned Bellavance
- Ned’s Courses On PluralSight
https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/edward-bellavance - Ned’s Blog
https://nedinthecloud.com/ - The Buffer Overflow Podcast
https://www.anexinet.com/resources/podcasts/buffer-overflow/ - The Anexipod Podcast
https://www.anexinet.com/resources/podcasts/anexipod/
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Service Mesh: 3 Things to Know
Find out what this emerging technology is and the critical role it plays as enterprises increasingly adopt microservices.
Video – Vint Cerf on the 6th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch and why IPv6 is so critical now
Today, on the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol and a “Father of the Internet”, sent us this video message to share with you all:
To learn more about IPv6, read our State of IPv6 Deployment 2018. And if you have not yet started, visit our Deploy360 IPv6 resources to learn how you can begin.
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Six Years After: State of IPv6 Deployment 2018
On the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, we’re sharing an updated report on the State of IPv6 Deployment in 2018. It really is staggering how far IPv6 deployment has progressed in six years. In mid-2012, Google measured less than 1% of users accessing their services over IPv6. Today that figure is getting close to 25%. Several major operators now deliver the majority of traffic from major content sources like Google, Akamai and Facebook over IPv6. Individual operators, like T-Mobile USA, have deployed IPv6-only networks for their subscribers.
Seven years ago, the Internet Society helped to organize World IPv6 Day, where thousands of ISPs and websites joined together for a successful, global-scale, 24-hour trial of IPv6. A year later, for World IPv6 Launch, major ISPs, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world permanently enabled IPv6 for their products and services.
To help showcase the progress made in the six years since World IPv6 Launch we are sharing:
– an updated report on the State of IPv6 Deployment 2018
– an infographic that clearly shows the scale and scope of IPv6 deployment
– and a fun quiz for you to test and share your knowledge of the Continue reading
Automation Win: Document Cisco ACI Configuration
This blog post was initially sent to the subscribers of my SDN and Network Automation mailing list. Subscribe here.
A while ago I complained how the GUI- or API-based orchestration (or intent-based) systems make it hard to figure out what exactly has been configured because they can’t give you a single text configuration file that you could track with version-control software.
Dirk Feldhaus found the situation so ridiculous that he decided to create an Ansible playbook that collects and dumps tenant parameters configured on a Cisco ACI tenant as a homework assignment in the Building Network Automation Solutions online course. As he explained the problem:
Read more ...Colorado Will Be First With C-V2X Vehicle Deployment
C-V2X is a 3GPP-based cellular standard that is intended to help vehicles by using a cellular-like network to perform a variety of tasks including delivering real-time traffic reports, diagnostics, and emergency calls. It is also compatible with 5G.
PacketFabric Extends its Software-Defined Network Across the Pond
PacketFabric’s network could potentially provide underlying network transport for an SD-WAN vendor such as Aryaka.
Announcing General Availability of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.2.0
VMware is pleased to announce that VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.2.0 has been released on June 5, 2018!
With this release we have introduced a number of excellent new features for on-premise deployments as well as the ability to manage Microsoft Azure based workloads as part of the NSX Cloud product. VMware NSX-T Data Center has also been updated to provide networking and security infrastructure for VMware Cloud on AWS.
Here is list of highlighted features that may be of most interested to customers. Note that this is not a complete list of new features. Please see the release notes for this release for all of the details.
Management of Workloads in Microsoft Azure
One of the most interesting new features of NSX-T Data Center 2.2 is the enablement of NSX Cloud, managing networking and security for applications running natively in public clouds, now including Microsoft Azure. This feature enables a true hybrid cloud with management of network security in a single view. This feature is detailed well in the following blog by Jonathan Morin so instead of repeating all the details here it is highly recommended you review this page: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2018/06/nsx-cloud-a-new-and-improved-model-for-end-to-end-networking-and-security.html/
Enhanced Data Path Mode in N-VDS
BiB 043: DriveScale’s Software Composable Infrastructure For Flash
In this briefing, DriveScale announced Software Composable Infrastructure for Flash, which they claim is a market first. Flash storage is all about high bandwidth and low latency, and the latest NVMe flash drives have ferocious network-filling capability. If you think serving storage over Ethernet is a performance compromise, think again.
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G7 Leaders, the World is looking at you to make the right decisions
As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets ready to host the G7 Summit this week, renewed tensions around trade remind us how vulnerable the global economy is, and how working together is more important than ever to solve these complex issues.
And today, the world is looking to G7 leaders to make the right decisions.
The connected future is here. While the Internet has yet to reach its full potential (half of the world’s population remains offline), there’s little doubt that it’s already changing the landscape of trade, jobs, and the digital economy. According to data from McKinsey, the Internet accounts on average for 3.4 % GDP across the large economies that make up 70 % of global GDP. The global network offers a unique space where data, goods and services can flow and fuel the next wave of global growth, where anyone can take part and benefit from new economic opportunities.
One of the values of this connected world is our ability to interconnect — the way we live our lives, the way we socialize, and we interact with the world. Everything from clothes to toys and toothbrushes are coming online as well. The International Data Continue reading
Microsoft’s GitHub Mega-Deal Draws Scenarios, Barbs
Past acquisitions by Microsoft have fueled heated responses on social media to the latest multibillion-dollar deal.
Dell’Oro: Ericsson Beats Huawei, Cisco as No. 1 NFV EPC Vendor
A recent Dell’Oro report found that the prevalence of 5G has triggered strong growth within the NFV market, specifically with cloud native VNFs.
