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IDG Contributor Network: Choosing ISPs for SD-WAN: don’t be pound foolish

I was in the local Best Buy the other day and overheard a conversation between a saleswoman and a father looking to buy a computer for his daughter. Apparently, the daughter is a designer, which of course requires lots of heavy graphics work. Anyway, the saleswoman was trying to explain how he should invest a little bit more in an expensive graphics card because of her work. The father wouldn’t hear of it. He wanted the least expensive machine possible.It was a mistake.Part of the art of life is knowing when and where to invest your resources for maximum return. Sometimes less is, well, less and investing a bit more really can make a difference. I know you didn’t come to this blog for self-help advice, but life’s truism has real-world implications for wide area networks and, in particular, when selecting the Internet infrastructure underlying your SD-WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Choosing ISPs for SD-WAN: don’t be pound foolish

I was in the local Best Buy the other day and overheard a conversation between a saleswoman and a father looking to buy a computer for his daughter. Apparently, the daughter is a designer, which of course requires lots of heavy graphics work. Anyway, the saleswoman was trying to explain how he should invest a little bit more in an expensive graphics card because of her work. The father wouldn’t hear of it. He wanted the least expensive machine possible.It was a mistake.Part of the art of life is knowing when and where to invest your resources for maximum return. Sometimes less is, well, less and investing a bit more really can make a difference. I know you didn’t come to this blog for self-help advice, but life’s truism has real-world implications for wide area networks and, in particular, when selecting the Internet infrastructure underlying your SD-WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

Aruba v Aerohive in customer reviews

When choosing the wireless LAN gear to be used in enterprises, it's important to look at security, reliability and ease of system management, and that's exactly what a group of Aruba and Aerohive customers have done.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

History Of Networking – Paul Vixie – DNS Adoption

In a continued look at the history of DNS on the Internet, Paul Vixie joins Network Collective to talk about the adoption process of DNS.

Paul Vixie
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Host

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The post History Of Networking – Paul Vixie – DNS Adoption appeared first on Network Collective.

IT budgets remain tight due to cloud migration

For the third straight year, IT organizations are keeping tight control over their IT budgets, but not because of economic uncertainty. Instead, the hesitancy to spend is because of the transition to the cloud.That’s the findings from IT market research firm Computer Economics, which published the report Worldwide IT Spending and Staffing Outlook for 2018 (paywall), and it echoes a common finding that on-premises computing continues to fall out of favor as IT shops look to migrate as much work as possible to the public cloud.“Typically, before the cloud transition, companies would grow IT budgets roughly to match expected revenue growth,” said David Wagner, vice president of research for Computer Economics in a statement. “This is no longer true in regions of higher cloud adoption, such as the U.S. and Canada, where IT budgets are not keeping pace with revenue growth.”To read this article in full, please click here

IT budgets remain tight due to cloud migration

For the third straight year, IT organizations are keeping tight control over their IT budgets, but not because of economic uncertainty. Instead, the hesitancy to spend is because of the transition to the cloud.That’s the findings from IT market research firm Computer Economics, which published the report Worldwide IT Spending and Staffing Outlook for 2018 (paywall), and it echoes a common finding that on-premises computing continues to fall out of favor as IT shops look to migrate as much work as possible to the public cloud.“Typically, before the cloud transition, companies would grow IT budgets roughly to match expected revenue growth,” said David Wagner, vice president of research for Computer Economics in a statement. “This is no longer true in regions of higher cloud adoption, such as the U.S. and Canada, where IT budgets are not keeping pace with revenue growth.”To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: A software defined network requires reinventing IT devops

It’s common for a newly released application to have a few bugs in it. Customers may grumble, and IT service requests may increase, but life goes on and people will figure out how to work around the issues. The same cannot be said for a network software upgrade. If the network goes down, everything grinds to a halt, and service to employees and customers ceases.In the old hardware network model, an operator relied on three to four vendors to run annual or semiannual upgrades, and even that process put the network’s resiliency at risk.  As networks transition to a software model, they are supported by a myriad of best-of-breed partners and a more diverse ecosystem, increasing the frequency of updates and therefore the degree of network vulnerability. In addition, the technology implemented is less mature, resulting in greater network exposure to errors and risk.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: A software defined network requires reinventing IT devops

It’s common for a newly released application to have a few bugs in it. Customers may grumble, and IT service requests may increase, but life goes on and people will figure out how to work around the issues. The same cannot be said for a network software upgrade. If the network goes down, everything grinds to a halt, and service to employees and customers ceases.In the old hardware network model, an operator relied on three to four vendors to run annual or semiannual upgrades, and even that process put the network’s resiliency at risk.  As networks transition to a software model, they are supported by a myriad of best-of-breed partners and a more diverse ecosystem, increasing the frequency of updates and therefore the degree of network vulnerability. In addition, the technology implemented is less mature, resulting in greater network exposure to errors and risk.To read this article in full, please click here

Rust 로 복잡한 매크로를 작성하기: 역폴란드 표기법​

Rust 로 복잡한 매크로를 작성하기: 역폴란드 표기법​

This is a Korean translation of a prior post.

(이 글은 제 개인 블로그에 게시된 튜토리얼을 다시 올린 것입니다)

Rust에는 흥미로운 기능이 많지만 그중에도 강력한 매크로 시스템이 있습니다. 불행히도 The Book[1]과 여러가지 튜토리얼을 읽고 나서도 서로 다른 요소의 복잡한 리스트를 처리하는 매크로를 구현하려고 하면 저는 여전히 어떻게 만들어야 하는지를 이해하는데 힘들어 하며, 좀 시간이 지나서 머리속에 불이 켜지는 듯한 느낌이 들면 그제서야 이것저것 매크로를 마구 사용하기 시작 합니다. :) (맞아요, 난-매크로를-써요-왜냐하면-함수나-타입-지정이나-생명주기를-쓰고-싶어하지-않아서 처럼과 같은 이유는 아니지만 다른 사람들이 쓰는걸 봤었고 실제로 유용한 곳이라면 말이죠)

Rust 로 복잡한 매크로를 작성하기: 역폴란드 표기법​
CC BY 2.0 image by Conor Lawless

그래서 이 글에서는 제가 생각하는 그런 매크로를 쓰는 데 필요한 원칙을 설명하고자 합니다. 이 글에서는 The Book의 매크로 섹션을 읽어 보았고 기본적인 매크로 정의와 토큰 타입에 대해 익숙하다고 가정하겠습니다.

이 튜토리얼에서는 역폴란드 표기법 (Reverse Polish Notation, RPN)을 예제로 사용합니다. 충분히 간단하기 때문에 흥미롭기도 하고, 학교에서 이미 배워서 익숙할 지도 모르고요. 하지만 컴파일 시간에 정적으로 구현하기 위해서는 재귀적인 매크로를 사용해야 할 것입니다.

역폴란드 표기법(후위 또는 후치 표기법으로 불리기도 합니다)은 모든 연산에 스택을 사용하므로 연산 대상을 스택에 넣고 [이진] 연산자는 연산 대상 두개를 스택에서 가져와서 결과를 평가하고 다시 스택에 넣습니다. 따라서 다음과 같은 식을 생각해 보면:

2 3 + 4 *

이 식은 다음과 같이 해석됩니다:

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Writing complex macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation

Writing complex macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation

(This is a crosspost of a tutorial originally published on my personal blog)

Among other interesting features, Rust has a powerful macro system. Unfortunately, even after reading The Book and various tutorials, when it came to trying to implement a macro which involved processing complex lists of different elements, I still struggled to understand how it should be done, and it took some time till I got to that "ding" moment and started misusing macros for everything :) (ok, not everything as in the i-am-using-macros-because-i-dont-want-to-use-functions-and-specify-types-and-lifetimes everything like I've seen some people do, but anywhere it's actually useful)

Writing complex macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation
CC BY 2.0 image by Conor Lawless

So, here is my take on describing the principles behind writing such macros. It assumes you have read the Macros section from The Book and are familiar with basic macros definitions and token types.

I'll take a Reverse Polish Notation as an example for this tutorial. It's interesting because it's simple enough, you might be already familiar with it from school, and yet to implement it statically at compile time, you already need to use a recursive macros approach.

Reverse Polish Notation (also called postfix notation) uses a stack for all its operations, Continue reading

BGP Flowspec redirect with ExaBGP

I’ve been busy as hell since the summer, not had much time to work on blog posts – but it’s all been good work! I also got a new job working for Riot Games, (Makers of the worlds largest online multiplayer game – league of legends) which has been totally fantastic.

This post is about BGP Flowspec, specifically how we can now more easily redirect traffic to a scrubbing appliance, it’s common for a device such as an Arbor TMS, or some other type of filtering box, to be installed close to the network edge, it could be a linux box full of filters, a DPI box, anything that might be useful in terms of performing traffic verification or enforcement.

In the event that a DDOS event occurs, it’s possible to redirect suspect traffic, or traffic to a specific victim host, through an appliance where it can be dropped or permitted.

Traditionally this has been done with Layer-3 VPNS, where ingress traffic from the internet is punted into a “Dirty VRF” it’s then forced through a mitigation appliance where it’s either dropped, or permitted – where it returns back into the same router but in a new “Clean VRF”

It Continue reading

How to Become a Better Networking Engineer

Got an interesting set of questions from one of my readers. He started with:

I really like networks but I don't know if I am doing enough for this community. Most of my work is involved with technologies which are already discovered by people and I am not really satisfied with it.

Well, first you want to decide whether you want to be (primarily) a researcher (focusing on discovering new stuff), an engineer (mostly figuring out how to build useful things by using existing stuff), or an administrator (configuring stuff).

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Cumulus content roundup: February

We’ve made it through the first month of the year, and the future of networking is looking bright — but is your data center ready for the brave new world? In this content roundup, we’re giving out the latest articles, videos and reports so you’re ready for 2018 and not left behind in twenty late-teen. There’s no time to waste! Get started on your data center upgrade today.

What’s new from Cumulus:

Cumulus Networks: What we do: Looking for an overview of who we are and what we’re working towards? We’ve got you covered. Watch this video for more information about our mission and our products, and share it with anyone else who wants to know what we’re all about.

Getting started with Linux: the basics – part 1: Everyone has to start their journey with Linux somewhere, so why not start here? This three part blog series about the basics of Linux networking teaches you everything you need. Check out part one to start learning the language of the data center.

Understanding Linux internetworking: Let’s say you’ve already got the hang of the basics of Linux. What’s the next step, and how can you take your Continue reading

Nuage Networks Q&A: The 5 Key Success Factors on your Digital Transformation Journey for the WAN and Beyond

Nuage Networks Q&A: The 5 Key Success Factors on your Digital Transformation Journey Thanks to all who joined us for the Nuage Networks webinar: The 5 Key Success Factors on your Digital Transformation Journey for the WAN and Beyond. With over 20 SD-WAN solutions in the market it is increasingly difficult to select the right one. Nuage Networks provided an evaluation framework that can be used to not... Read more →

802.11: Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained

In the world of wireless, the term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless access in general, despite the fact that it is a specific trademark owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a group dedicated to certifying that Wi-Fi products meet the IEEE’s set of 802.11 wireless standards.These standards, with names such as 802.11b (pronounced “Eight-O-Two-Eleven-Bee”, ignore the “dot”) and 802.11ac, comprise a family of specifications that started in the 1990s and continues to grow today. The 802.11 standards codify improvements that boost wireless throughput and range as well as the use of new frequencies as they  become available. They also address new technologies that reduce power consumption.To read this article in full, please click here

802.11: Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained

In the world of wireless, the term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless access in general, despite the fact that it is a specific trademark owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a group dedicated to certifying that Wi-Fi products meet the IEEE’s set of 802.11 wireless standards.These standards, with names such as 802.11b (pronounced “Eight-O-Two-Eleven-Bee”, ignore the “dot”) and 802.11ac, comprise a family of specifications that started in the 1990s and continues to grow today. The 802.11 standards codify improvements that boost wireless throughput and range as well as the use of new frequencies as they  become available. They also address new technologies that reduce power consumption.To read this article in full, please click here

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