REVIEW: 5 top hardware-based Wi-Fi test tools

Software tools for testing Wi-Fi can run on a laptop, but dedicated hardware tools offer the convenience of a sometimes less cumbersome form-factor that are compact enough to fit in the pouch of a laptop bag.This article looks at five of these devices: AirCheck G2 Wireless Tester (NETSCOUT), Cape Networks Sensor, EyeQ Wi-Fi Monitor (7SIGNAL), NetBeez Wi-Fi Monitor and WiFi Pineapple Tetra.+Also see: REVIEW: Mojo wireless intrusion prevention system; 8 Free Wi-Fi Stumbling tools+To read this article in full, please click here

Brief Recap: Tech Field Day at Cisco Live Europe 2018

I don’t think I’ve ever been at a Tech Field Day event that’s been as intense as what we went through in the last few days at Cisco Live Europe – at least 17 different presentations in two days. It’s still all a blur and will take a long while to sort out.

First impressions:

Not All Content Needs the Edge

The combination of edge computing, 5G RAN, and low latency will deliver a faster 5G experience.

BiB 30: Mellanox, Ixia & Cumulus At NFD17 – VXLAN & Whitebox

Mellanox, Ixia, and Cumulus Networks shared the presentation stage at Networking Field Day 17 to talk EVPN VXLAN, whitebox switching, open source, and data center design and performance validation.

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Citrix Emphasizes Cloud, Networking, and Subscriptions in Q4 2017 Earnings

Citrix said its Netscaler SD-WAN platform is beginning to see larger deployments.

Verizon Sets its Sights on a Nationwide NB-IoT Network

T-Mobile also will have a nationwide NB-IoT network this year.  

BiB 029: Cisco At NFD17 – Automation, Telemetry & Intent

Cisco Systems presented at Networking Field Day 17. Three broad themes emerged from the presentations: intent, automation, and telemetry.

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Coming soon to a university near you

Attention software engineering students: Cloudflare is coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and we want to meet you! We will be attending UW–Madison’s Career Connection on Wednesday, February 7 and UIUC’s Startup Career Fair on Thursday, February 8. We’ll also be hosting tech talks at UIUC on Friday, February 2 at 6:00pm in 2405 Siebel Center and at UW–Madison on Tuesday, February 6 (time and location coming soon).

Cloudflare staff at YHack 2017. Photo courtesy Andrew Fitch.

Built in Champaign

In early 2016, Cloudflare opened an engineering office in Champaign, IL to build Argo Smart Routing. Champaign's proximity to the University of Illinois, one of the nation's top engineering schools, makes it an attractive place for high-tech companies to set up shop and for talented engineers to call home. Since graduating from UIUC in 2008, I've had opportunities to work on amazing software projects, growing technically and as a leader, all while enjoying the lifestyle benefits of Champaign (15 minute commute, anyone?).

Cloudflare has attended annual recruiting events at UIUC since the Champaign office was opened. This year, we've started to expand our search to other top engineering schools in the midwest. Continue reading

Riverbed’s SteelFusion Solves a County’s IT Backup Problem

SteelFusion seems a little bit like hyperconverged infrastructure, but not exactly.

Worth Reading: Networking with Intent

As servers and then storage appliances became increasingly virtualized and disaggregated over the past 15 years or so, the network stubbornly stuck with the appliance model, closed and proprietary. — Jeffrey Burt @The Next Platform

Red Hat and Mycom OSI Tackle Telco Cloud Assurance in NFV Environments

It provides visibility and analysis for telcos as they move toward "cloudification."

Nokia Stock Surges on Strong Earnings, Positive Sentiment

CEO Rajeev Suri cited improved conditions in North America and 5G momentum.

Broadcom Releases Open Source Software Development Kit for Data Center Switches

The first version of the kit will allow customization of the company’s data center switches.

AT&T CEO Says Tax Windfall Will Boost Capex by $1B in 2018

Much of the extra investment will go toward building more fiber.

Off the Cuff – NFD17 Wrap Up

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.

Jordan Martin

Co-Host

Eyvonne Sharp

Co-Host

Phil Gervasi

Co-Host

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Cisco unveils container management on HyperFlex

Cisco continued its HCI momentum this week, announcing at Cisco Live its new Cisco Container Platform (CCP), which runs on its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. This news follows last week’s HyperFlex 3.0 release and acquisition of Skyport. One of the key themes of Cisco Live was the need for businesses to be more agile and move faster. Businesses want to modernize the infrastructure to meet the changing demands on IT, and they are adopting the DevOps model. Along with that, containers have grown in popularity, as the lightweight nature of them makes them ideal for organizations that have embraced the concepts of DevOps.To read this article in full, please click here

Rehashing Certifications

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—

My boss advised me that getting my WPCE (WordPerfect Certified Resource) cert would accomplish two things: 1. It would establish my credibility as a trainer; and 2. If I didn’t know a feature before the test, I sure as heck would afterward.

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 is now on Open Beta

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:

• Sign in to your account on cloudflare.com.
• Visit the Workers tab.
• Launch the editor.
• Write some code and save it.
• Go to the routes tab and prescribe on what requests you want to run Workers for

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:

• Run A/B tests on the Continue reading

Heptio Sideswipes Other Container Distros with ‘True’ Kubernetes Platform

The HKS container platform is targeted at technically sophisticated organizations.

Worth Reading: Addressing 2017

Let’s see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet and look at how IP address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself. —Geoff Huston @APNIC