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Hedge 174: Javier Antich and Cloud AI

ChatGPT has broken through the hype barrier and brought AI hype to the larger world. But what does AI mean to network engineers? We’ve talked about AI driven network management for years, and commercial products abound, but what does it really mean to move from the automation driven configuration to AI driven decision-making? Javier Antich joins Tom Ammon and Russ White for this episode of the Hedge to talk about cloud AI for network engineers.

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Four major US mobile operators have agreed to a series of undertakings designed to address concerns over airline safety and to allow them to use their C-band spectrum to its full extent.


The result of this effort, Intel Max Series GPU formerly known by the code name Ponte Vecchio, packs 100 billion transistors and 47 tiles onto five process nodes. Beyond that, they include two packaging innovations, EMIB 2.5D and Foveros 3D technology, and stack tiles atop one another for greater processor density.


According to various statistics, there are somewhere around 330 billion emails being sent every day, approximately 3.82 million per second. Who reads all these emails?


In the ongoing AI revolution, images and text are yesterday’s news, leaving audio as a new frontier to explore, and incredible progress has already been made. Here are six examples of AI audio generation that will leave you speechless.


The secret to unlocking the full potential of quantum networking may be hiding at the center of a diamond, according to Amazon Web Services. This week, AWS popped the question to De Beers subsidiary Element Six in the hope of finding it.


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White paper: Addressing the MITRE ATT&CK framework for containers using Calico

Be it chess, poker, or everyday driving, you must predict your opponent’s (or other drivers’) movement to win (or keep yourself safe!). Container security is the same, and many organizations look to the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) framework to understand an attacker’s mindset and how to prevent attacks. The MITRE ATT&CK framework released a matrix for containers, giving organizations that use Kubernetes and containers a chance to analyze an attacker’s M.O. and assess the organization’s attack vectors.

To help organizations stay ahead of attackers, Tigera recently released a white paper based on the MITRE ATT&CK containers matrix. Drawing from Tigera’s experience as a cybersecurity provider, the white paper offers an in-depth analysis of the containers matrix. It also details how Tigera’s active security platform, Calico Cloud, a fully-managed SaaS, and its self-managed counterpart, Calico Enterprise, can detect and mitigate every tactic outlined in the matrix.

White paper highlights

Tigera’s white paper dives deep into the MITRE framework for containers to help organizations understand the risks they face and how they can mitigate these vulnerabilities using Calico. Here’s what you will learn from the white paper and the questions it’ll answer:

Nvidia touts MLPerf 3.0 tests; Enfabrica details network chip for AI

AI and machine learning systems are working with data sets in the billions of entries, which means speeds and feeds are more important than ever. Two new announcements reinforce that point with a goal to speed data movement for AI.For starters, Nvidia just published new performance numbers for its H100 compute Hopper GPU in MLPerf 3.0, a prominent benchmark for deep learning workloads. Naturally, Hopper surpassed its predecessor, the A100 Ampere product, in time-to-train measurements, and it’s also seeing improved performance thanks to software optimizations.MLPerf runs thousands of models and workloads designed to simulate real world use. These workloads include image classification (ResNet 50 v1.5), natural language processing (BERT Large), speech recognition (RNN-T), medical imaging (3D U-Net), object detection (RetinaNet), and recommendation (DLRM).To read this article in full, please click here

Nvidia touts MLPerf 3.0 tests; Enfabrica details network chip for AI

AI and machine learning systems are working with data sets in the billions of entries, which means speeds and feeds are more important than ever. Two new announcements reinforce that point with a goal to speed data movement for AI.For starters, Nvidia just published new performance numbers for its H100 compute Hopper GPU in MLPerf 3.0, a prominent benchmark for deep learning workloads. Naturally, Hopper surpassed its predecessor, the A100 Ampere product, in time-to-train measurements, and it’s also seeing improved performance thanks to software optimizations.MLPerf runs thousands of models and workloads designed to simulate real world use. These workloads include image classification (ResNet 50 v1.5), natural language processing (BERT Large), speech recognition (RNN-T), medical imaging (3D U-Net), object detection (RetinaNet), and recommendation (DLRM).To read this article in full, please click here

Cloudflare One named in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge

Cloudflare One named in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge
Cloudflare One named in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge

Gartner has recognized Cloudflare in the 2023 “Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE)” report for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. We are excited to share that the Cloudflare Zero Trust solution, part of our Cloudflare One platform, is one of only ten vendors recognized in the report.

Of the 10 companies named to this year’s Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report, Cloudflare is the only new vendor addition. You can read more about our position in the report and what customers say about using Cloudflare One here.

Cloudflare is also the newest vendor when measured by the date since our first products in the SSE space launched. We launched Cloudflare Access, our best-in-class Zero Trust access control product, a little less than five years ago. Since then, we have released hundreds of features and shipped nearly a dozen more products to create a comprehensive SSE solution that over 10,000 organizations trust to keep their organizations data, devices and teams both safe and fast. We moved that quickly because we built Cloudflare One on top of the same network that already secures and accelerates large segments of the Internet today.

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Broadcom-VMware deal faces further regulatory hurdles from EU Commission

The European Commission has informed Broadcom of its objections to the company’s proposed $61 billion acquisition of VMware — the latest hurdle the company needs to clear after regulatory agencies in the UK and US also raised concerns.  “Broadcom is the leading supplier of Fiber Channel host bus adapters (FC HBAs) and storage adapters. The markets are very concentrated. If the competitors of Broadcom are hampered in their ability to compete in these markets, this could in turn lead to higher prices, lower quality and less innovation for business customers, and ultimately consumers,” the Commission said in a statement.To read this article in full, please click here

Broadcom-VMware deal faces further regulatory hurdles from EU Commission

The European Commission has informed Broadcom of its objections to the company’s proposed $61 billion acquisition of VMware — the latest hurdle the company needs to clear after regulatory agencies in the UK and US also raised concerns.  “Broadcom is the leading supplier of Fiber Channel host bus adapters (FC HBAs) and storage adapters. The markets are very concentrated. If the competitors of Broadcom are hampered in their ability to compete in these markets, this could in turn lead to higher prices, lower quality and less innovation for business customers, and ultimately consumers,” the Commission said in a statement.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco Live 2023 – Is the conference worth the price?

Cisco Live US 2023

Cisco Live US 2023 will take place from June 04 to 08 in Las Vegas. I have just registered, and this will be my 10th time attending. However, the question arises: is the Cisco Live conference worth the price? Travel and Accommodation I will not consider the cost of travel and accommodation in this post. This introduces too many variables depending on where the conference is, where you are coming from, and what your preferences are for accommodations. We’re only going to talk about the cost and benefits of attending…

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Part 4 – Monitoring PSN Load Balancing

The best way to know that your configuration is working properly is to measure with a tool outside of ISE.  Unfortunately, authentications per second is not available via SNMP or the REST API.  What does happen is for each authentication a SYSLOG message is generated.  The following messages are for every passed and failed authentication: […]

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Part 3 – IOS-XE Load Balancing

Cisco is a large organization.  Sometimes different software development teams don’t talk to one another as much as we would like.   As it happens, the IOS-XE team developed a way of load balancing RADIUS request across multiple RADIUS servers.  I can’t claim to have read every Cisco whitepaper and I haven’t seen every Cisco Live […]

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Part 2 – Enter the Load Balancer

In Part 1 we explored the simplest configuration possible.  Now let’s introduce a load balancer appliance. I’m just going to put it out there.  Load balancers are a necessary evil.  They are for protocols that are too dumb to figure out how to load balance themselves at the application layer.  But we’re going to find […]

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