SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — July 7, 2017
China Telecom and Ericsson launch an IoT platform; QualiTest Group acquires Experior Group.
Apple Engineers Founded SnapRoute, Which Now Helps AT&T
Nick McKeown helped SnapRoute get off the ground.
Kubernetes, Swarm, and Mesos Central in Container Orchestration Space
Kubernetes may have the most users, but it's not considered the de facto standard.
WISP/FISP Design – Building your future MPLS network with whitebox switching.
The role of whitebox in a WISP/FISP MPLS core
Whitebox, if you aren’t familiar with it, is the idea of separating the network operating system and switching hardware into commodity elements that can be purchased separately. There was a good overview on whitebox in this StubArea51.net article a while back if you’re looking for some background.
Lately, in my work for IP ArchiTechs, I’ve had a number of clients interested in deploying IP Infusion with either Dell, Agema or Edge Core switches to build an MPLS core architecture in lieu of an L2 ring deployment via ERPs. Add to that a production deployment of Cumulus Linux and Edge Core that I’ve been working on building out and it’s been a great year for whitebox.
There are a number of articles written that extoll the virtues of whitebox for web scale companies, large service providers and big enterprises. However, not much has been written on how whitebox can help smaller Tier 2 and 3 ISPs – especially Wireless ISPs (WISPs) and Fiber ISPs (FISPs).
And the line between those types of ISPs gets more blurry by the day as WISPs are heavily getting into fiber and FISPs are Continue reading
WISP/FISP Design – Building your future MPLS network with whitebox switching.
The role of whitebox in a WISP/FISP MPLS core
Whitebox, if you aren’t familiar with it, is the idea of separating the network operating system and switching hardware into commodity elements that can be purchased separately. There was a good overview on whitebox in this StubArea51.net article a while back if you’re looking for some background.
Lately, in my work for IP ArchiTechs, I’ve had a number of clients interested in deploying IP Infusion with either Dell, Agema or Edge Core switches to build an MPLS core architecture in lieu of an L2 ring deployment via ERPs. Add to that a production deployment of Cumulus Linux and Edge Core that I’ve been working on building out and it’s been a great year for whitebox.
There are a number of articles written that extoll the virtues of whitebox for web scale companies, large service providers and big enterprises. However, not much has been written on how whitebox can help smaller Tier 2 and 3 ISPs – especially Wireless ISPs (WISPs) and Fiber ISPs (FISPs).
And the line between those types of ISPs gets more blurry by the day as WISPs are heavily getting into fiber and FISPs are Continue reading
Worth Reading: Why isn’t everyone running DNSSEC?
The post Worth Reading: Why isn’t everyone running DNSSEC? appeared first on rule 11 reader.
Competing IT Models in the Age of the Enterprise
The problem is that the security and policy features are provider specific.
Rough Guide to IETF 99: Scalability & Performance
In this post I'll highlight some of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) groups meeting during the IETF 99 meeting in Prague next week. These groups are working to explore and address more sophisticated ways to use and share available bandwidth, improve Internet performance, and otherwise efficiently get Internet content to where it needs to be.
Mat Ford
Rough Guide to IETF 99: Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a buzzword around the Internet industry and the broader technology and innovation business. We are often asked what the IETF is doing in relation to IoT and in this short post I'd like to highlight some of the relevant sessions scheduled during the upcoming IETF 99 meeting in Prague. Check out the IETF Journal IoT Category or the Internet Society's IoT page for more details about many of these topics.
Mat Ford
Rough Guide to IETF 99: Back to Prague
Time to get ready for IETF 99! Starting a week from today, on Sunday, 16 July, the Internet Engineering Task Force will be in Prague, Czech Republic, where about 1000 engineers will spend a week discussing the latest issues in open standards and protocols. As usual, the agenda is packed, and the Internet Society is providing a ‘Rough Guide’ to the IETF via a series of blog posts all this week on topics of mutual interest:
Mr. Olaf Kolkman
Why Do You Still Blog?
After recording an excellent session on social media at Cisco Live with The Network Collective (@NetCollectivePC), I started thinking about blogging and where it stands in the grand scheme of information sharing. With the rise of podcasting and video blogging now in full swing, I was even asked by my friend Michael Stump “Do you see blogging as a dying form of content?” For obvious reasons, I said “no”, but I wanted to explain two major reasons why.
Needle In A Haystack
One of the major reasons why I still blog through written form is searchability. When I started blogging almost seven years ago I wanted to create a place where I could put down my thoughts about topics and share them with everyone. More by accident than design, many of those thoughts became popular topics of conversation. Even today, some of my posts are being used to help people figure out problems and address issues that aren’t well documented in other places.
But why? How can posts many years old still be relevant to audiences today? Because of searching. Use of Google, DuckDuckGo, and even Bing allow people to search for specific error messages Continue reading
Cisco Ramps Up Security With Intent-Based Networking
Encrypted Traffic Analytics and SD-Access integrate security into the enterprise network.
Hybrid IT, Data, and Water
At Interop ITX, Dave McCrory explained how data is as valuable as water in today's IT environment.