Connecting 500K Bolivians to a National Research and Education Network
As players in the development of the Internet in the world, the academic and scientific communities of the five continents have made important efforts to establish National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to interconnect universities and research centers to exchange information at a regional level. Examples of these networks are GÉANT in Europe, Internet 2 in the United States, and RedCLARA (Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks) in the Latin American region.
The Bolivian academic sector is made up of more than 60 universities with half a million students and 20,000 teachers. Unfortunately Bolivia is the only country that is not connected to RedCLARA. Bolivia not only lacks connection with any NREN, but also has not managed to constitute its own National Academic Scientific Network. Since 2002, several attempts have been made, involving more than 30 universities in the country. As a result, the statutes and regulations of the Bolivian Integration Academic Network (RIAB) have been drafted.
The project Red Academica Boliviana, led by the Internet Society Bolivia Chapter and supported by Beyond the Net Funding Programme, has a long-term goal: to lay the foundations that will strengthen the development of research and education in Bolivia through the Continue reading
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ‘Embraces’ Cloud, Edge as the Future
Microsoft will form two new business units, one focused on end-user “experience and devices” and a second on cloud and AI.
CenturyLink Trials NFV Startup NetElastic’s Software
NetElastic’s software is tailored to telecom operators, not enterprises, and can scale quickly to handle networks with terabits of traffic.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — March 30, 2018
TM Forum and the Linux Foundation team up for APIs; Ericsson and Ambra Solutions build underground LTE network; Dell Technologies takes a step further to connected vehicles.
2,600 meters closer to the stars: Cloudflare Data Center #149 in Bogotá, Colombia
At 2625 meters (8612 feet) above sea level, Bogotá (Colombia) is one of the four highest capital cities in the world. Now, it is also home to Cloudflare's 149th data center.
This is the 29th city to be added just in March, and joins our existing Colombia datacenter in Medellín, launched four years ago.
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Bogotá is the third largest city in South America after São Paulo (Brazil) and Lima (Peru). Bogotanos affectionately known as Rolos are proud of their city with its rich cultural heritage, and its modern transportation systems (Ciclovias, Transmilenio) despite the heavy traffic. Whether you are visiting the world famous gold museum or savoring the mouthwatering Ajiaco soup, Bogotá has something for everyone, and visitors are always warmly received by the locals.
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Bogotá is our 11th deployment in the Latin America and Caribbean Region, and is located at a Tier III facility in the Bogota Free Trade Zone specially developed to attract ICT Investments. We'll continue our expansions in the Latin America and Caribbean region (and around the world!).
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SpaceX Gets US Approval to Launch Space-Based Broadband Service
If all goes as planned, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will eventually launch 4,425 satellites into orbit with the goal of delivering broadband service to all corners of the Earth.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, on Wednesday, approved SpaceX’s request to move forward with its space-based broadband proposal, on the condition that the aerospace company launch half of the satellites within six years.
Once deployed, the low-Earth orbit satellites will cover the entire United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and eventually, provide “full-time coverage to virtually the entire planet,” the FCC said in its approval order.
SpaceX plans to begin launching the satellites in 2019. About 800 satellites will need to be deployed for the broadband service to be operational. The company, in the midst of launching 10 satellites on Friday, didn’t have an immediate comment on the FCC approval.
The company calls the proposed service “Starlink” and plans to offer wireless broadband speeds comparable to fiber-optic service.
The FCC imposed a number of conditions on SpaceX’s application. Several other satellite operators raised concerns about spectral interference from the SpaceX satellites, and others suggested the large number of satellites would eventually lead to orbital debris, or Continue reading
Show 383: Optimizing Internet Traffic With Expereo (Sponsored)
BGP is good for keeping the Internet connected. And that s about it. BGP isn t good at optimizing the path between two endpoints, as it s more about optimizing service provider costs than traffic performance.
Therefore, there are products on the market that optimize your traffic flows across the Internet despite default BGP behavior. Some of these products actually manipulate BGP, which will be the focus of our sponsored show today. Our sponsor Expereo is here to discuss their XCA and XCA Edge products with us.
Joining us from Expereo are Francois Devienne, VP of Networks; and Sander Barens, VP of Commercial Development.
Expereo is a managed service provider. We discuss how the company optimizes BGP to get the best out of the Internet, and explore Expereo’s XCA and XCA Edge products.
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Juma Baldeh: Breaking Barriers to Access in Gambia
How do you shift the cultural stigma around technology and gender? As Juma Baldeh has proven in Gambia, you do it one girl at a time. Baldeh founded Hackathon Girls Banjul for girls ages 8 to 18 in her home country, in coordination with the Mozilla Foundation. As the first technology club of its kind there, members receive six months of free weekly classes on web literacy and basic computing skills. More importantly, the club gives more than 40 girls a safe space to collaborate and share experiences as they work together on projects for a tech-savvy Gambia.
“Too often I witness young girls, who are skilled in math and science, lose hope as they prepare for interviews and professional positions,” Baldeh said. “Right now, many girls in this field leave it because they think computer jobs are too difficult and they lose confidence at some point.”
The club started with a small space and just five girls, training to be proficient in basic computing skills, computer programing, online security and privacy, and research and networking. Through these skills the girls can then go on to civic participation, economic empowerment, and leadership roles. One of the many problems with Continue reading
ONAP and Kubernetes Mashed Together for App Portability
The two platforms were used together during a demonstration to show an ability to run ONAP on any public, private, or hybrid cloud.
EnSilo Malware Protection Gives Red Bull Security Team Wings
The endpoint security platform protected Red Bull from the WannaCry ransomware attack and helps the energy drink maker’s head of digital security sleep at night.
Short Take – Cisco Disaggregation Announcement
In this Network Collective short take, Jordan Martin shares his thoughts on the recent announcement from Cisco that they will be offering disaggregated solutions. Has Cisco seen the light? Will Cisco abandon hardware completely? Or are the doing all of this for other reasons?
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Power Failure Leaves Brazilian Internet In The Dark
On Wednesday, March 21, a massive power failure impacted large parts of northern Brazil, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity. Beginning at about 3:40pm local time (18:40 UTC), the outage was reportedly due to the failure of a transmission line near the Belo Monte hydroelectric station.
As occurred in a major power outage in Brazil in 2009, this power failure had a measureable impact on the country’s Internet. This is illustrated below through graphs from Oracle Dyn’s Internet Intelligence team based on BGP and traceroute data, as well as graphs from Akamai’s mPulse service, based on end user Web traffic.
The graphic below depicts the counts of available networks (lower graph) and unstable networks (upper graph) for Brazil in the latter half of March 21. The number of unstable networks spikes around 18:40 UTC as routers of ISPs in Brazil began re-routing traffic away from disabled connections, while the lower graph shows that the corresponding drop in available networks (i.e. routed prefixes) was minor when compared to the total number routes that define the Internet of Brazil.
In addition to aggregating BGP routing information from around the globe, the Internet Intelligence team also performs millions of Continue reading
Data Center Routing with RIFT on Software Gone Wild
Years ago Petr Lapukhov decided that it’s a waste of time to try to make OSPF or IS-IS work in large-scale data center leaf-and-spine fabrics and figured out how to use BGP as a better IGP.
In the meantime, old-time routing gurus started designing routing protocols targeting a specific environment: highly meshed leaf-and-spine fabrics. First in the list: Routing in Fat Trees (RIFT).
Read more ...Mininet weathermap
The network was created using the following Mininet command:
sudo mn --custom=sflow-rt/extras/sflow.py --link tc,bw=10 \
--topo torus,3,3 --switch ovsbr,stp=1 --test iperf
sudo mn --custom sflow-rt/extras/sflow.py --link tc,bw=10 \
--topo tree,depth=4,fanout=2 --test iperf
sudo mn --custom sflow-rt/extras/sflow.py --link tc,bw=10 \It's also easy to create Custom Topologies. The following command creates the example custom topology, topo-2sw-2host.py, that ships with Mininet:
--topo linear,4 --test iperf
sudo mn --custom ~/mininet/custom/topo-2sw-2host.py,sflow-rt/extras/sflow.py Continue reading
Service Providers Get a Little Testy With Vendors Regarding SDN
Unfortunately for vendors, they don’t have the luxury of sitting on stage and defending their point of view. But vendors aren’t going to provide products based on open source unless there’s money to be made.