Connecting the Unconnected: The Land of Zero Connect
As we move to a more digitally-connected world, the need for Internet access has never been greater. In many parts of the world, the Internet has firmly established itself as a core part of everyday life – and this holds true for everyone from kids to adults to senior citizens. Yet, there remain communities and places around the world that are still offline. In some instances, these are probably the hardest locations to connect. And there are many reasons for this – geography and terrain could be one reason, commercial viability of service provision is another, as is affordability – the capacity of the community to pay for devices and Internet connectivity.
In 2010, the Internet Society Asia-Pacific Bureau launched the award-winning Wireless for Communities Programme. This was a pioneering effort that placed the local community front and centre, with its catchphrase – “for the community, with the community, by the community”.
The focus of the programme is to provide Internet access and connectivity to underserved and unserved rural areas in a holistic manner that leads to socioeconomic empowerment. A key component involves developing communities’ capacity to build and operate the wireless network, and at the same time, empowering them Continue reading
Episode 28 – For the Love of NAT
When it comes to NAT, network engineers love it, they hate it, or the love to hate it. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and Nick Buraglio join us to talk about NAT, why it exists, and its continued role in networking.
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Nick Buraglio
Guest
Tom Hollingsworth
Guest
Jordan Martin
Co-Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Co-Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Don’t Miss Keith Bogart’s Live Webinar! Deciphering Spanning-Tree Technologies
Tune in Tomorrow, May 31st, at 10 am PDT/ 1 pm EDT for a FREE live webinar with expert instructor Keith Bogart (CCIE #4923).
About This Webinar:
Understanding the logic of 802.1d and how it builds a loop-free “tree” is critical to passing any Cisco certification exam. Presented by INE instructor Keith Bogart (CCIE #4923), this session will take you through that logic so that, given any bridged/switched layer-2 network, you can predict what tree will be formed. Ask questions live with an experienced industry expert!
Business-Driven Network Transformation
Understand business requirements before jumping into a network design in order to ensure they're aligned, networking expert says.
Typical EVPN BGP Routing Designs
As discussed in a previous blog post, IETF designed EVPN to be next-generation BGP-based VPN technology providing scalable layer-2 and layer-3 VPN functionality. EVPN was initially designed to be used with MPLS data plane and was later extended to use numerous data plane encapsulations, VXLAN being the most common one.
Design Requirements
Like any other BGP-based solution, EVPN uses BGP to transport endpoint reachability information (customer MAC and IP addresses and prefixes, flooding trees, and multi-attached segments), and relies on an underlying routing protocol to provide BGP next-hop reachability information.
Read more ...Mellanox Brings Hyperscaler Capabilities to the Masses With Private Cloud Framework
The 25G Ethernet network infrastructure integrates with cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure software stacks from vendors including VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat, and Microsoft.
Cultural Challenges Pose Roadblocks for Operator Digital Transformation
Unless the TM Forum spends more time on the cultural challenges, most operators will continue to struggle to make meaningful strides toward the holy grail of becoming bona fide Digital Service Providers.
The Virtual Cloud Network Demystified
Introduction
Welcome to Summer 2018! It’s been nearly one month now since our CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the Virtual Cloud Network vision at Dell Technologies world in Las Vegas. Essentially the reveal (in my personal opinion) was focused on raising awareness that VMware has now delivered to the market what many of you have heard for quite some time now as “the vision” for networking and security, whereas NSX has become an integral part of many various parts of your business:
Enter stage left, the Virtual Cloud Network. VCN builds upon the fundamentals you’re already familiar with from NSX—these include (but are not limited to) integrated security, consistent connectivity, and inherit automation, but really focuses on tying together an end-to-end architecture that allows our customers to deliver applications and services everywhere. Our customers have asked and we have listened… the demand for any infrastructure, any cloud, any transport, any device, and any application has drastically changed the landscape and technologies associated with building/architecting and having a modern enterprise network.
We’ve been quite busy over the past month with lots of interest coming from partners and customers wondering what this really means. Well today the wait Continue reading
Shipping Faulty, Expensive and Incomplete products as Digital Transformation
Silicon Valley has rules about shipping faulty, incomplete products for the first version. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman Many companies, including Enterprise IT vendors, take this as a way to charge high prices while they finish the product. Executives readily convince […]
ZTE in Limbo as White House Moves Ahead With Trade Restrictions in China
President Trump’s tweets and White House policy statements keep the telecom equipment maker in a constant state of uncertainty.
Is OpenStack Used by Enterprises, or Is It Mainly for Service Providers?
It depends whether an enterprise uses ‘Wall Street IT’ versus ‘webscale IT.’