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Extreme Offers 60-Day Rolling Financing on Networking Products

Short-term subscription financing has been available for networking software, but it’s more rare for networking hardware.

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Multi-Cloud Orchestrator Morpheus Data Adds Alibaba Cloud, Cisco SDN Support

The platform integrates with public and private cloud providers, and allows DevOps teams to deploy applications in minutes.

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Get Smarter About Container Monitoring

CA Technologies says containers are “no-brainers” because they improve flexibility and increase developer productivity.

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Deconfusing the Static Route

Configuring a static route is just like installing an entry directly in the routing table (or the RIB).

I have been told this many times in my work as a network engineer by operations people, coders, designers, and many other folks. The problem is that it is, in some routing table implementations, too true. To understand, it is best to take a short tour through how a typical RIB interacts with a routing protocol. Assume BGP, or IS-IS, learns about a new route that needs to be installed in the RIB:

• The RIB into which the route needs to be installed is somehow determined. This might be through some sort of special tagging, or perhaps each routing process has a separate RIB into which it is installing routes, etc.. In any case, the routing process must determine which RIB the route should be installed in.
• Look the next hop up in the RIB, to determine if it is reachable. A route cannot be installed if there is no next hop through which to forward the traffic towards the described destination.
• Call the RIB interface to install the route.

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Digital Empowerment of Women in South Asia

The Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter (PK IBD) organised a webinar on “Digital Empowerment of Women in South Asia” on 15 March, 2018. ISOC Chapter leaders, members, and staff participated in the webinar where the regional and global women-centric initiatives were shared by the speakers.

The undersigned welcomed the audience on behalf of the Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter followed by a round of introductions. Joyce Dogniez, the Internet Society’s Senior Director, Global Community Engagement, shared the importance and relevance of the UN-EQUALS partnership which is a unique collaboration between state and non-state actors to bridge the digital gender divide. Joyce shared that the Internet Society is an important part of this partnership that primarily emphasizes improving ICT access, imparting digital skills, and promoting leadership of women. Internet and digital literacy leads to economic empowerment of women that can have a profound community impact.

The next session featured updates from the Chapter Leaders of South Asia on the various initiatives being undertaken on the country and Chapter level. Sagarika Wickramasekera from the ISOC Sri Lanka Chapter informed about the initiatives of the Chapter including WomenIGF, IT trainings for girls at school level, Internet learning programmes for women entrepreneurship, etc. Sidra Jalil from Continue reading

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Martello and Elfiq Networks Prove SD-WAN Via CENGN Project

After completing its merger with Elfiq Networks, Martello launched an SD-WAN and is putting its scalability to the test with Canada’s Center of Excellence in Next-Generation Networks.

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4 Enterprise Container Deployment Mistakes to Avoid

Containers can help enterprises maximize their cloud infrastructure if deployed correctly or cause headaches if treated like more traditional VM infrastructure.

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Lockin In Enterprise IT – Video

We all know that ‘lock in’ is inevitable. You make a choice and then you live with the consequences of what you have bought. However, I see a number of area where vendors are actively promoting lockin to capture unearned profits and control their partners. These dark patterns are not always obvious and I wanted […]

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Network Break 178: Cisco Disaggregates, ATT Bets Big On Whitebox

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BrandPost: Ciena Network Insight – Podcast Series

Stay informed with Ciena's Network Insights podcast each month and meet the innovators and thinkers who are building the infrastructure for our future. We'll be looking at system overload of our global networks due to increasing IoT traffic, emerging 4K and 8K video, and VR applications. To keep up and avoid hitting critical mass, networks have to work smarter, not harder.Tune into our Network Insights podcast each month for an in-depth discussion on the different ways these bandwidth killers force networks to push the boundaries of programmability and intelligence, and meet the innovators and thinkers who are building the infrastructure for our future.To read this article in full, please click here

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Flow smoothing

The sFlow-RT real-time analytics engine includes statistical smoothing. The chart above illustrates the effect of different levels of smoothing when analyzing real-time sFlow telemetry.

The traffic generator in this example creates an alternating pattern: 1.25Mbytes/second for 30 seconds followed by a pause of 30 seconds. Smoothing time constants between 1 second and 500 seconds have been applied to generate the family of charts. The blue line is the result of 1 second smoothing and closely tracks the traffic pattern. At the other extreme, the dark red line is the result of 500 second smoothing, showing a constant 625Kbytes/second (the average of the waveform).

There is a tradeoff between responsiveness and variability (noise) when selecting the level of smoothing. Selecting a suitable smoothing level depends on the flow analytics application.

Low smoothing values are appropriate when fast response is required, for example:

• DDoS detection
• Leaf and spine traffic engineering using segment routing and SDN
• Internet router using merchant silicon

Higher smoothing values are appropriate when less variability is desirable, for example:

• Real-time traffic visualization using Netflix Vizceral
• Real-time web analytics
• Real-time visibility and control of campus networks

Generating the chart

The results described in this article are easily reproduced using the testbed Continue reading

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Worth Reading: OpenPower at the inflection point

When IBM launched the OpenPower initiative publicly five years ago, to many it seemed like a classic case of too little, too late. But hope springs eternal, particularly with a datacenter sector that is eagerly and actively seeking an alternative to the Xeon processor to curtail the hegemony that Intel has in the glass house. —Timothy Prickett Morgan @The Next Platform

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Deadline TODAY (23:59 UTC) to submit comments to ICANN on 2018 DNSSEC Root KSK Rollover Plan

Do you believe ICANN should go ahead with the plan to roll the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) on 11 October 2018? If so (or if not), the deadline for public comment is TODAY, 2 April 2018, at 23:59 UTC. That’s about 9.5 hours from the time I’m publishing this post.

My colleague Kevin Meynell provided more info about this public comment process when it began in March. At the IETF 101 meeting in London, I spoke with ICANN staff who again stated that they would like to hear from many voices about whether they should go ahead with the Root KSK Rollover on 11 October 2018. It’s very simple to send in comments:

Learn how to submit your comments to ICANN

You can see the current list of comments at: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-ksk-rollover-restart-01feb18/2018q1/thread.html (All comments are public.)

I would encourage anyone interested to submit comments (even if they are simply “I support the plan.”).

And if you have want more information about how to get started with using DNSSEC, please see our Deploy360 Start page to begin.

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Considering The Future Of Juniper’s Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten

I'm positive on Juniper Contrail, but there are many things to think about regarding the company's SDN strategy and the changing market.

Link: Juniper Networks - Juniper Networks Introduces Contrail Security to Help Enterprises Protect Applications in Any Cloud

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The Week in Internet News: IT Pros Know IoT Security Needs Work, But They Aren’t There Yet

What IoT security problem? Most IT professionals realize the Internet of things poses some security risks, but less than a third of them actively monitor for third-party IoT security problems, according to a survey detailed at ZDNet. More than a third of those surveyed said that nobody in their organization is responsible for reviewing the risk-management policies of their IoT vendors.

Some security risks, only faster: Meanwhile, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security is warning organizations that 5G mobile service may bring the same security risks as earlier mobile standards have. Known flaws in SS7 and Diameter, the signaling protocols used in 2G, 3G, and 4G, could end up in 5G, and allow traffic to be eavesdropped or spoofed, reports ARN.

Community broadband for net neutrality: The American Civil Liberties Union is urging U.S. cities to build their own broadband networks as a way to protect net neutrality principles, now that the Federal Communications Commission has repealed its related regulations. The Hill has a story. Many small U.S. cities are already building their own, in an effort to provide faster or cheaper service than commercial providers, Governing Magazine says.

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IPv4 Subnetting Best Practices

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IPv4 Subnetting Best Practices

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Welcoming Cisco to disaggregation

Earlier this week, Cisco announced that they will be offering a disaggregated solution with their Cisco IOS XR and Nexus operating systems (1). It’s true, the same organization that claimed to have killed white-box networking is jumping on the bandwagon three years later.

Open networking is no longer just the future

It’s now a requirement in today’s innovative data centers. Cumulus was founded on the notion that the future of data center networking is disaggregation, that the industry should be open and that innovation will only prevail when open networking does. The fact that one more incumbent vendor has acknowledged this notion about where the industry is headed only validates our vision. The future of networking truly is here, and we welcome Cisco to the club — really!

In the last few years, and even last several months, we’ve seen open networking takeoff. From the moment we helped bring ONIE to the market back in 2013, we knew things were going to change in the industry. Since then, we’ve seen the list of participating hardware vendors grow like crazy and our customer base grow with them. We’ve seen web-scale companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and more contribute to the Continue reading

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Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service

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Introducing DNS Resolver, 1.1.1.1 (not a joke)