SteelFusion seems a little bit like hyperconverged infrastructure, but not exactly.
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CEO Rajeev Suri cited improved conditions in North America and 5G momentum.
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Networking Field Day 17 (NFD17) was in Silicon Valley last week, with two of our co-founders participating as delegates – but the conversation doesn’t have to stop there. In this Off The Cuff episode of Network Collective, we’ve gathered a few of the delegates from the event to talk about their impressions on the information that was presented and some of the broader themes they experienced across the presentations. Vendors at the invent included Cisco, Cumulus, Extreme, Ixia, Juniper, Mellanox, Thousand Eyes, and VMware.
You can check out the event and see the presentations for yourself over at the Event Page at techfieldday.com.
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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While at Cisco Live in Barcelona this week, I had a chat with someone—I don’t remember who—about certifications. The main point that came out of the conversation was this:
One of the big dangers with chasing a certification is you will end up chasing knowledge about using a particular vendor feature set, rather than chasing knowledge about a technology.
At some point I’m going to edit a post a video short on engineering versus meta-engineering (no, it won’t be next week), but the danger is real. For instance, in an article I’ve had in my bookmarks pile for a long while, the author says—
I’m not going to name the author, because this is his description of thinking through a certification many years ago, rather than his current thinking on certifications—but the example is telling. I know a lot of folks studying for certifications. They mostly spend their time labbing up various protocols and… features. The temptation to Continue reading
Cloudflare Workers Beta is now open!
Cloudflare Workers lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare’s edge, deploying globally to over 120+ data centers around the world in less than 30 seconds. Your code can intercept and modify any request made to your website, make outbound requests to any URL on the Internet, and replace much of what you might need to configure your CDN to do today. Even better, it will do this from all our edge locations around the world, closer to many of your users than your origin servers can ever be. You will have a fully functional Turing-complete language in your fingertips which will allow you to build powerful applications on the edge. The only limit is your imagination.
To get started:
That’s it!
You can start by writing a simple ‘hello world’ script, but chances are that you are going write Workers that are more complicated. You can check out our page with recipes to:
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This is the sixth article from the series of the articles discussing the configuration of an entire enterprise network. The article explains the configuration of the edge router vIOS-EDGE-I and configuration of ISP routers. Now let's say few words about the router vIOS-EDGE-I. The router is Cisco IOSv Qemu appliance, version 15.6(2)T. It has assigned 512MB RAM by GNS3. The router connects all three parts of the company network to the Internet. These parts are the the campus network, data center and DMZ.
Picture 1 - Company Connection to the Internet via vIOS-EDGE-I
The company has assigned the prefix 195.1.1.0/24. Devices located in DMZ have assigned the prefix 195.1.1.128/25. The prefix 195.1.1.0/25 is assigned for devices hidden behind NAT. NAT is configured on vIOS-EDGE-I router, translating campus and data center subnets to the subnet 195.1.1.128/25. The router is connected to the upstream providers via their Ethernet ports Gi0/1 and Gi0/3. This is a single multi homed topology when a company is connected to two upstream providers with a single edge router. The entire prefix 195.1.1.0/24 is advertised to the both ISPs via BGP routing protocol. Continue reading
This is the sixth article from the series of the articles discussing the configuration of an entire enterprise network. The article explains the configuration of the edge router vIOS-EDGE-I and configuration of ISP routers. Now let's say few words about the router vIOS-EDGE-I. The router is Cisco IOSv Qemu appliance, version 15.6(2)T. It has assigned 512MB RAM by GNS3. The router connects all three parts of the company network to the Internet. These parts are the the campus network, data center and DMZ.
Picture 1 - Company Connection to the Internet via vIOS-EDGE-I
The company has assigned the prefix 195.1.1.0/24. Devices located in DMZ have assigned the prefix 195.1.1.128/25. The prefix 195.1.1.0/25 is assigned for devices hidden behind NAT. NAT is configured on vIOS-EDGE-I router, translating campus and data center subnets to the subnet 195.1.1.128/25. The router is connected to the upstream providers via their Ethernet ports Gi0/1 and Gi0/3. This is a single multi homed topology when a company is connected to two upstream providers with a single edge router. The entire prefix 195.1.1.0/24 is advertised to the both ISPs via BGP routing protocol. Continue reading