Ansible For Networking Part 1
This is part one of a series on Anisble for network engineers. The series will concentrate on Ansible as a configuration management tool for networking and is aimed at those with a basic understanding of Ansible. If you are just starting out with Ansible, see my quick start guide here and...MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Basic Explanation and Key Points
MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Multi-Protocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) is a new technology developed jointly by the ITU-T and the IETF. The key motivation is to add OAM functionality to MPLS in order to monitor each packet and thus enable MPLS-TP to operate as a transport network protocol. Motivations for MPLS Transport Profile […]
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Quality of Service Best Practices
Quality of Service Best Practices What is best practice ? Below is a Wikipedia definition of best practice. This apply to education as well. A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other […]
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The Internet’s Gilded Age
The rise of the Internet has heralded rapid changes in our society. The opportunities presented by a capable and ubiquitous communications system and a global transportation network have taken some corporations from the multinational to the status of truly global mega-corporation. There are a handful of large scale winners in this space and many losers. But this is not the first time we’ve witnessed a period of rapid technological and social change.White Box Switches Have Grown Up
White box switches have come a long way. The recent activities in OCP validate the vision and progress of white box switches, and more importantly it is clear that this trend is progressing from data centers to enterprises. I remember when Zeus Kerravala wrote in his 2016 article, “White Box Switches are Now Ready for Prime Time,” he pointed out three important advantages:
– Cost and reliability
– Features and capabilities
– Network operations
As a NOS vendor, we see NOS is being adopted into production environments. Even though there are still challenges with white box switches going from data centers to other segments, there is no doubt the networking industry has moved onto the path toward white box switches.
From what we saw at OCP Summit, the overall reliability of white box switches is improving, and in many cases, they are more reliable than some brand-name hardware. We can now find dozens of vendors providing white box switches. These vendors come with different backgrounds and carry out different approaches in designing their hardware platforms. In OCP, we can see three clearly different types of vendors providing white box switches:
- Brand name vendors, such as HPE and Dell. This group Continue reading
Ansible From The Start To The Beginning
Ansible quick start guide.Ansible From The Start To The Beginning
Ansible is a configuration management platform that sits in the DevOps space along with Puppet, Chef and Salt Stack. Touted as being 'radically simple' its possible to get value from Ansible quite quickly with no programming experience required. Architecture Ansible does not use agents...Worth Reading: When your code has to work
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