Verizon Study: 15% of Enterprises Surveyed Are Deploying SDN
Many companies are looking at ways to accelerate their SDN adoption so they don’t risk falling behind.
Dustin’s Internet Community Roadtrip: In the Bay Area, The People Who Make the Internet Ecosystem Thrive
Dustin Phillips, Co-Executive Director of ICANNWiki, is traveling across the United States in his red Toyota Corolla, making connections with the people who are making their communities – and the Internet – a better place. He visited the Bay Area, first making a stop at the Redwood National and State Parks, where he learned about redwood communities and how their survival is dependent on interconnection, a metaphor for the Internet itself.
What is the Internet Ecosystem?
The Internet affects nearly every aspect of society, creating an extremely wide range of stakeholders. There is still a community of stakeholders engaged directly with the Internet’s policymaking processes, but increasingly there are Internet-related discussions occurring at what would traditionally be considered unlikely venues.
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Meeting with Dr. Brandie Nonnecke at the University of California, Berkley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute was a fitting way to kick off my time in the Bay Area. We had a great discussion on the important role of civic participation and collaborative processes for informed decision-making in key issue areas.
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Configuring SSL for gRPC on Junos
This is a short article on creating a self-signed root certificate which can be used to self-sign certificates for the purposes of treating our telemetry and instrumentation exploration with the security love it deserves. I also cover configuration of mutual SSL for gRPC on Junos. An article of dual purposes!
One of the things I see far too often is clear-text transport being used in demonstrations, labs and even production. This isn’t acceptable. We live in a world where security has to be woven in from the ground up. How do you really know your system works if you leave out all of the security controls?
I hear your teeth grinding. Why do you want to do this? First of all, even though we can bypass security on gRPC with Junos by going for insecure connectivity with clear-text, we shouldn’t. The world we live in is all about the data and the smallest amount of it can give the ‘bad guys’ a lead.
Now we’re done with the why, we need to deal with the how. There are three approaches to PKI that are common:
- Run around with your hair on fire rambling nonsense
- Create your own Certificate Authority (CA) Continue reading
Short Take: Security as a Tradeoff
We often treat security as an absolute, “that which must be done, and done perfectly, or is of no value at all.” It’s time to take this myth head on, and think about how we should really think about security.
Pica8 Guns for Cisco With PicaPilot White Box Software Platform
The software is targeted at large-scale enterprises looking to make the jump from legacy or proprietary systems like those from Cisco.
AT&T Evolves its AT&T Integrated Cloud via Airship, Making it 100% Container-Based
AT&T rebranded its AIC. And 5G will be the first new use case to run on its evolved network cloud.
Datanauts 135: An Introduction To Edge Computing
It turns out you can t do it all in the cloud. And thus, we have the rise of edge computing, in which data is collected, processed, and analyzed close to the source of its creation and close to where people and systems need it.
The goals of edge computing include improving performance, reducing the costs and time of data transmission, and creating new applications to take advantage of that data.
Our guide to edge computing is Alex Marcham. Alex is a technologist, writer and researcher. You can find his work at NetworkArchitecture2020.com.
We level-set with a working definition of edge computing, examine the notion of locality and what it means for edge computing, and discuss latency issues.
We explore edge computing use cases such as industrial processes and video surveillance, and dive into the infrastructure that drives this technology.
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History Of Networking – Martin Casado – Software Defined Networking
Today, every network vendor sells a solution labeled “software-defined”. But in the 2000’s, the networking stack was driven by constraints in hardware that could not be changed. In this History of Networking, Martin Casado joins us to talk about the ideas that drove his research in software-defined networking and his thoughts on hardware and software in networking.
Martin Casado
Guest
Russ White
Host
Jordan Martin
Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Canadian Youth Advocates Participate in Enhancing IoT Project
On May 14, a group of young people who are currently working on or are studying tech, politics, computer science, and the Internet of Things (IoT) met for a two-hour Youth Advocates for IoT Security round table. This event was a part of the Internet Society’s year-long initiative, the Canadian Multistakeholder Process – Enhancing IoT Security in partnership with Innovation, Science and Economic Development, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, CANARIE, and CIPPIC. It serves as just one of several workshops that will be held during the process to develop recommendations for a set of norms and policies to secure the IoT in Canada.
The round table offered an opportunity for young people in school or their early careers to voice their opinions and provide unique inputs for consideration on the following aspects of IoT security:
- How young people currently use IoT devices;
- How they anticipate these devices will be used in the future; and
- Effective ways of educating young consumers about IoT security.
The group discussed the ways in which IoT devices have become seemingly ubiquitous in youth’s lives. IoT devices have also become integral, and often required, parts of classroom learning and workplaces. Now, the lines Continue reading
Cato SD-WAN Hunts Down Threats With Zero-Footprint Data Aggregation
The company’s cloud-based SD-WAN platform upgraded its security offering by adding a threat hunting system that eliminates enterprises’ need to deploy data collection infrastructure and analyze raw data.
Cisco Live – Coming out of your shell! (Be Social!)
Cisco Live is just around the corner and what better time to talk about the social aspect of the event. …
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OpenDaylight Tutorial: Connecting OpenFlow Switches
In this excerpt from "OpenDaylight Cookbook," learn how to connect an OpenFlow switch to the open source SDN controller.
Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux
A common solution to provide a highly-available and scalable service is to insert a load-balancing layer to spread requests from users to backend servers.1 We usually have several expectations for such a layer:
- scalability
- It allows a service to scale by pushing traffic to newly provisioned backend servers. It should also be able to scale itself when it becomes the bottleneck.
- availability
- It provides high availability to the service. If one server becomes unavailable, the traffic should be quickly steered to another server. The load-balancing layer itself should also be highly available.
- flexibility
- It handles both short and long connections. It is flexible enough to offer all the features backends generally expect from a load-balancer like TLS or HTTP routing.
- operability
- With some cooperation, any expected change should be seamless: rolling out a new software on the backends, adding or removing backends, or scaling up or down the load-balancing layer itself.
The problem and its solutions are well known. From recently published articles on the topic, “Introduction to modern network load-balancing and proxying” provides an overview of the state of the art. Google released “Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer” describing their Continue reading
Why is Network Automation So Hard?
This blog post was initially sent to the subscribers of my SDN and Network Automation mailing list. Subscribe here.
Every now and then someone asks me “Why are we making so little progress on network automation? Why does it seem so hard?”
There are some obvious reasons:
- Tightly-coupled components and humongous blast radius;
- Lack of good tools and programming interfaces;
- Lack of transactional consistency (in some cases even simple commits);
However, there’s a bigger elephant in the room: every network is a unique snowflake.
Read more ...Facebook Unveils Network Load Balancer, Provisioning Tool
Social media giant releases details about its Katran load balancing software, which it's open sourcing, and its Zero-Touch network provisioning system.