The downside of buying used gear via Glyde and Gazelle

Growing up in Rhode Island, the way to buy and sell used stuff was in the local newspaper, the Providence Journal. We had something in the classifieds called The Yankee Trader, where you could sell stuff in tiny, one- or two-line ads. You clipped out a form from the paper, filled it out and sent in $1 for the ad to run a few days later. You would contact the seller and meet to make the exchange. These days, those types of ads are dead in the water. I mean, it took 2-4 days just for your ad to run. Now there's eBay, Craigslist and a host of electronics resellers to buy and sell stuff immediately. Unfortunately, when buying from strangers all over the country, there are potential pitfalls—as I keep falling into. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The downside of buying used gear via Glyde

Growing up in Rhode Island, the way to buy and sell used stuff was in the local newspaper, the Providence Journal. We had something in the classifieds called The Yankee Trader, where you could sell stuff in tiny, one- or two-line ads. You clipped out a form from the paper, filled it out and sent in $1 for the ad to run a few days later. You would contact the seller and meet to make the exchange. These days, those types of ads are dead in the water. I mean, it took 2-4 days just for your ad to run. Now there's eBay, Craigslist and a host of electronics resellers to buy and sell stuff immediately. Unfortunately, when buying from strangers all over the country, there are potential pitfalls—as I keep falling into. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco extends Ericsson partnership with WiFi package

Looking to offer more complete network services offerings, Cisco and Ericsson have broadened their 14-month old partnership to include new wireless offerings.Specifically, the companies will offer a new service package called Evolved Wi-Fi Networks (EWN) which will include products and support from both companies. “EWN includes pre-integrated and verified offerings based on Ericsson and Cisco products and Ericsson's customer support, design and deployment services as well as Ericsson's managed services,” the companies stated. Ericsson said EWN can be offered as a fully managed service with the global reach of more than 180 countries.+More on Network World: Cisco/Ericsson: Assessing the mega-deal a year later+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mozilla: ‘IoT will be the first big battle of 2017,’ calls for responsible IoT

You need look no further than some of the stupid IoT devices being shown off at CES 2017 to be reminded that practically anything can be connected to the internet.Nokia’s Withings, L’Oreal’s innovation lab and Kerastase believe you would be better off by using Hair Coach, the world’s first smart hairbrush and companion app. It is just one of the many products that leaves me asking WHY? L’Orea Screenshot from L’Oreal videoTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mozilla: ‘IoT will be the first big battle of 2017,’ calls for responsible IoT

You need look no further than some of the stupid IoT devices being shown off at CES 2017 to be reminded that practically anything can be connected to the internet.Nokia’s Withings, L’Oreal’s innovation lab and Kerastase believe you would be better off by using Hair Coach, the world’s first smart hairbrush and companion app. It is just one of the many products that leaves me asking WHY? L’Orea Screenshot from L’Oreal videoTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T’s next 5G wireless trial will shoot DirecTV Now to users’ homes

5G conjures up visions of super-fast smartphone service, but it could give consumers and enterprises a lot more. In the next few months, some residents of Austin, Texas, will get to watch DirecTV Now at home using a form of the still-emerging wireless technology.AT&T plans to start a trial of that service in the first half of this year. Instead of the cutting-edge mobile networks that are expected to beam multi-gigabit service to moving phones, it will use a fixed wireless network built on pre-standard 5G technology to reach users' homes.MORE: Check out our interactive timeline of 5G trialsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: eVPN in Cumulus LINUX

Many data centers today rely on layer 2 connectivity for specific applications and IP address mobility. However, an entire layer 2 data center can bring challenges such as large failure domains, spanning tree complexities, difficulty troubleshooting, and scale challenges as only 4094 VLANS are supported. —Cumulus

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2017: The Year of Cybersecurity Scale

It’s no surprise that lots of pundits and cybersecurity industry insiders claim that 2017 will be a challenging year full of nation state attacks, ransomware, and a continuing wave of data breaches.  I concur with this common wisdom, but I also believe that 2017 will be remembered as the year where cybersecurity analytics and operations encountered a wave of unprecedented scale. Now I know that the need for security scalability is nothing new.  Leading SIEM vendors can all talk about how they’ve had to rearchitect their products over the past few years to scale from thousands to millions of events per second (EPS) and somehow make sense of all this activity. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2017: The year of cybersecurity scale

It’s no surprise that lots of pundits and cybersecurity industry insiders claim that 2017 will be a challenging year full of nation state attacks, ransomware, and a continuing wave of data breaches. I concur with this common wisdom, but I also believe 2017 will be remembered as the year where cybersecurity analytics and operations encountered a wave of unprecedented scale. Now, I know that the need for security scalability is nothing new. Leading SIEM vendors can all talk about how they’ve had to rearchitect their products over the past few years to scale from thousands to millions of events per second (EPS) and somehow make sense of all this activity. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2017: The Year of Cybersecurity Scale

It’s no surprise that lots of pundits and cybersecurity industry insiders claim that 2017 will be a challenging year full of nation state attacks, ransomware, and a continuing wave of data breaches.  I concur with this common wisdom, but I also believe that 2017 will be remembered as the year where cybersecurity analytics and operations encountered a wave of unprecedented scale. Now I know that the need for security scalability is nothing new.  Leading SIEM vendors can all talk about how they’ve had to rearchitect their products over the past few years to scale from thousands to millions of events per second (EPS) and somehow make sense of all this activity. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2017: The year of cybersecurity scale

It’s no surprise that lots of pundits and cybersecurity industry insiders claim that 2017 will be a challenging year full of nation state attacks, ransomware, and a continuing wave of data breaches. I concur with this common wisdom, but I also believe 2017 will be remembered as the year where cybersecurity analytics and operations encountered a wave of unprecedented scale. Now, I know that the need for security scalability is nothing new. Leading SIEM vendors can all talk about how they’ve had to rearchitect their products over the past few years to scale from thousands to millions of events per second (EPS) and somehow make sense of all this activity. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Blogging By The Refrigerator’s Light

Blogging isn’t starting off to a good 2017 so far. Ev Williams announced that Medium is cutting back and trying to find new ways to engage readers. The platform of blogging is scaling back as clickbait headlines and other new forms of media capture the collective attention for the next six seconds. How does that all relate to the humble tech blogger?

Mindshare, Not Eyeshare

One of the reasons why things have gotten so crazy is the drive for page views. Clickbait headlines serve the singular purpose of getting someone to click on an article to register a page view. Ever clicked on some Top Ten article only to find that it’s actually a series of 10 pages in a slideshow format? Page views. I’ve even gone so far as to see an article of top 7 somethings broken down into 33(!) pages, each with 19 ads and about 14 words.

Writers competing for eyeballs are always going to lose in the end. Because the attention span of the average human doesn’t dally long enough to make a difference. Think of yourself in a crowded room. Your eyes dart back and forth and all around trying to find something Continue reading

Spy chief: US should use all tools to counter Russian hacking

The U.S. government should consider a broad range of retaliations against Russia for its attempts to interfere with November's presidential election, the outgoing director of national intelligence recommended.The default response to cyberattacks shouldn't necessarily be a cyber one, intelligence director James Clapper said Thursday. "We should consider all instruments of national power," he told a Senate committee. "We currently cannot put a lot of stock ... in cyber deterrence. Unlike nuclear weapons, cyber capabilities are difficult to see and evaluate and are ephemeral."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Spy chief: US should use all tools to counter Russian hacking

The U.S. government should consider a broad range of retaliations against Russia for its attempts to interfere with November's presidential election, the outgoing director of national intelligence recommended. The default response to cyberattacks shouldn't necessarily be a cyber one, intelligence director James Clapper said Thursday. "We should consider all instruments of national power," he told a Senate committee. "We currently cannot put a lot of stock ... in cyber deterrence. Unlike nuclear weapons, cyber capabilities are difficult to see and evaluate and are ephemeral."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Outgoing presidential IT advisors offer Trump 10 tips to succeed

There'll be a to-do list from the IT department in the president's "in" tray when Donald Trump enters the White House later this month.In a cabinet exit memo published Thursday, the Office of Science and Technology Director John P Holdren and U.S. CTO Megan Smith review President Barack Obama's technology achievements, and set 10 technology priorities for his successor.Twitter doesn't get a mention.At the top of Holdren's and Smith's list is to invest in fundamental research, and to publish the results. Such work may one day lead to profitable products, but the pay-off is too far in the future to motivate most businesses to contribute -- and were they to do so, they would probably keep the results to themselves.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Verizon’s $73K bill to volunteer fire company has community burning mad

Residents of a small island community in Virginia are up in arms over Verizon insisting the town’s volunteer fire company pony up $73,000 to have telecommunications equipment moved off a parcel of land on which the department is building a new firehouse. At the center of the clash is the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which besides selflessly protecting the island’s 3,000 residents is also renowned for its stewardship over the Chincoteague Ponies, a herd of 150 wild horses that, well, has nothing to do with the Verizon dispute but is so interesting you should take a few minutes to check out this website.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Verizon’s $73K bill to volunteer fire company has community burning mad

Residents of a small island community in Virginia are up in arms over Verizon insisting the town’s volunteer fire company pony up $73,000 to have telecommunications equipment moved off a parcel of land on which the department is building a new firehouse.At the center of the clash is the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which besides selflessly protecting the island’s 3,000 residents is also renowned for its stewardship over the Chincoteague Ponies, a herd of 150 wild horses that, well, has nothing to do with the Verizon dispute but is so interesting you should take a few minutes to check out this website.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T to Have LTE CAT-M in ‘Majority’ of Network by Mid-Year

LTE CAT-M has support from more than 27 operators globally, according to the GSMA.

AT&T Reinvents Data Sharing with Indigo Project

Long-term Indigo could become an open source project similar to ECOMP.

Response: Cisco iWAN costs : networking

Doing an initial look into the cost of deploying a Cisco iWAN to see how it stacks up against Viptela or another SDWAN provider. Does anyone know what components or licensing is required for this? I’m lost. I see it requires a Cisco APIC-EM to be setup, but then how does the licensing for this work?

Interesting the breadth of vendors discussion – Cisco iWAN, Meraki, Viptela, Cloudgenix, Talari, APIC-EM, Glueware etc. 

Comments like the following:

“Anything but iwan unless you prefer a complicated mess of technologies that pre date the tube television.” 

 “APIC-EM is a hot mess. I would not recommend using it at this time for anything more than seeing what a mess it is. I recommend you look at something like Glue Networks Gluware for your orchestration tool over APIC-EM. In the WAAS space we picked Riverbed over Cisco WAAS because it would have required replacing our current routers with a new model in the middle of our lifecycle management. In our case, Viptela and Cisco were about the same cost, with maybe a slight advantage to Cisco”

“The are several drawbacks to Viptela. They tout it as a router replacement, but it’s definitely not. Continue reading