The story of kc claffy and measuring the Internet – 2017 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award winner
Appreciated by some, taken for granted by many, the Internet is understood by few who use it. Underneath the ability to communicate instantaneously with people across the globe, conduct major business transactions with a click of a button and have the latest news and entertainment at our fingertips lies a vast landscape of data, unfettered by regulation, and spurred by competitive growth.
kc claffy, this year’s Jonathan B. Postel Service Award winner, has been with the Internet from nearly its very beginnings. She’s watched its evolution from military project to government-funded point-to-point communication to its current iteration as a private sector behemoth.
claffy is one of the few brave scientists who measure the Internet. She’s leading the way to the future by opening our eyes to the layers of data beneath the surface along with the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), a group she founded in 1996.
“The work that we do isn’t easy to get funded because the Internet itself isn’t yet its own subject,” claffy said. “It’s even a struggle for the agencies to get funding, since infrastructure isn’t very sexy.”
Sexy or not, claffy has been measuring the Internet since the early Continue reading
Run Well-Designed Experiments to Learn Faster
I know that everyone learns in a slightly different way. Let me share the approach that usually works well for me when a tough topic I’m trying to master includes a practical (hands-on) component: running controlled experiments.
Sounds arcane and purely academic? How about a simple example?
A week ago I talked about this same concept in the Building Network Automation Solutions online course. The video is already online and you get immediate access to it (and the rest of the course) when you register for the next live session.
Read more ...Comparison between Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches vs HP Pro-curve 2500/4000M
Today I am going to talk about the fair comparison between the two vendors access switches which are widely used in the various campus networks or you can use there in various enterprises. Both Switches are excellent with their features and in this article i will talk about the comparison with features.
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Before we start with this article I would like to announce that we started our Youtube Channel and want your support to subscribe that channel. We are going to add many videos based on the networking basics, designs, configurations and pre-sales part. We are going to add the featured posts and the videos of the different vendors on the different technologies. You can subscribe us on the below mentioned link.
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Radisys Acts as Integrator and Contributor to ONF’s CORD Project
The company recently bundled Mavenir's vEPC into its M-CORD distribution.
Charter Works with Nuage’s SD-WAN, Focuses on Ethernet
Extending Ethernet WANs is its top use case.
phpIPAM version 1.3.1 released
New version of phpipam (1.3.1) released.Watch Live – IETF 100 Plenary Panel on the Future of the Internet
What is this future of the Internet? What will the Internet look like in 30 years? On Wednesday, November 15, three prominent strategists will gaze into the future and share their unique perspectives. This panel on “The Internet, a look forward: Social, political, and technical perspectives” is part of the IETF 100 plenary session streaming live out of Singapore. The plenary session will also include the presentation of the Jonathan B. Postel Service award.
You can watch live at: https://www.ietf.org/live
The entire IETF 100 plenary session is from 17:10 – 19:40 Singapore time. This is UTC+8, which translates into:
- 10:10 – 12:40 Central European Time
- 9:10 – 11:40 UTC
- 4:10 – 6:40 US Eastern time
IMPORTANT NOTE – The panel and the Postel Award presentation are just two sections of the IETF 100 plenary session – and happen somewhere in the middle of the session. The full agenda can be found at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/100/materials/agenda-100-ietf-sessa/
The live video stream will be recorded if you want to watch later.
Moderated by Brian Trammell, member of the Internet Architecture Board, panelists include:
- Monique Morrow, President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet, a non-profit Continue reading
CableLabs Opens TIP Community Lab in Colorado
Virtual RAN fronthaul is the first project the lab will tackle.
7 Cloudflare Apps Which Increase User Engagement on Your Site
Cloudflare Apps now lists 95 apps from apps which grow email lists to apps which acquire new customers to apps which help site owners make more money. The great thing about these apps is that users don't have to have any coding or development skills. They can just sign up for the app and start using it on their sites.
Let’s take a moment to highlight some apps which increase a site’s user engagement. Check out more Cloudflare Apps which grow your email list, make money on your site, and get more customers.
I hope you enjoy them and I hope you build (or use) great apps like these too.
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1. Privy
Over 100,000 businesses use Privy to capture and convert website visitors. Privy offers a free suite of email capture tools, including exit-intent driven website popups & banners, email list sign-up, an online store, social media channels, mobile capability, and in-store traffic.
In the left preview pane, you can view the different packages and their features users may sign up for from free to "growth" ($199/month) options.
In the right pane, you can preview Continue reading
Google’s Cloud Spanner Global Database Is Now Actually Global
The new release adds multi-region support.
MEF 3.0 Looks to Take Best From Carrier Ethernet and the Internet
MEF 3.0 is supposed to be the "biggest and boldest" framework yet.
AT&T Makes its SD-WAN ‘Dynamic’
The operator architected its SD-WAN through the AT&T Integrated Cloud (AIC).
Is There a Future for Blockchain-Enabled SD-WAN?
The combination could mitigate the audit and regulatory risk involved in each transaction.
Dell EMC’s Jeffrey Baher on the Past, Present and Future for Open Networking
Dell EMC recently expanded its Open Networking initiative, which focuses on abstracting and decoupling hardware and software networking elements, beyond the data center core. The goal is to enable an end-to-end, software-defined architecture, where mix-and-match software from innovative third-parties can run on agnostic hardware to help service provider and enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives,... Read more →
The 2017 APM/NPM Report Survey is Here!
Take survey and enter to win one of two $300 Gift Cards redeemable at various retailers including Amazon, Target, Visa Virtual Card, etc.
Versa Optimizes SD-WAN Voice and Video from User’s Perspective
Versa wants to bring SD-WAN value up the stack.