Breaking down broadband nutrition labels
As part of the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act) in the United States, Congress asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to finalize rules that would require broadband Internet access service providers (ISPs) display a “label” that provides consumers with a simple layout that discloses prices, introductory rates, data allowances, broadband performance, management practices, and more.
While the idea of a label is not new (the original design dates from 2016), its inclusion in the Infrastructure Act has reinvigorated the effort to provide consumers with information sufficient to enable them to make informed choices when purchasing broadband service. The FCC invited the public to submit comments on the existing label, and explain how the Internet has changed since 2016. We’re sharing Cloudflare’s comments here as well to call attention to this opportunity to make essential information accessible, accurate, and transparent to the consumer. We encourage you to read our full comments. (All comments, from Cloudflare and others, are available for public consumption on the FCC website.)
The Internet, 6 years ago
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Practical Python For Networking: 2. 2 Python Virtual Environment Setup – Video
In this episode of the Python for Networking series, host Eric Chou covers setting up your Linux host and your Python 3 virtual environment. For more information, check out Python Virtual Environments: A Primer (https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/) Course files are in a GitHub repository: https://github.com/ericchou1/pp_practical_lessons_1_route_alerts Eric Chou is a network engineer with 20 years of experience, including […]
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Video: Challenges of Managed SD-WAN Services
When I published a link to the Is MPLS/VPN Too Complex? blog post to LinkedIn, someone asked whether I’m skeptical about service provider SD-WAN services due to lack of skills, and Kristijan Taskovski quickly identified the root cause in his reply:
The argument of a lack of skill is only one that is perpetuated by businesses. It’s not perpetuated by engineers. People that are trained, honed, and knowledgeable are expensive. Expense is the number one enemy for a business.
That’s exactly why I think most managed SD-WAN services will be a dismal failure.
Video: Challenges of Managed SD-WAN Services
When I published a link to the Is MPLS/VPN Too Complex? blog post to LinkedIn, someone asked whether I’m skeptical about service provider SD-WAN services due to lack of skills, and Kristijan Taskovski quickly identified the root cause in his reply:
The argument of a lack of skill is only one that is perpetuated by businesses. It’s not perpetuated by engineers. People that are trained, honed, and knowledgeable are expensive. Expense is the number one enemy for a business.
That’s exactly why I think most managed SD-WAN services will be a dismal failure.
Community Spotlight series: Calico Open Source user insights from cloud solutions architect, Geoff Burke
In the first installment of our Community Spotlight series, I asked Geoff Burke from Tsunati to share his experience with Kubernetes and Calico Open Source. Geoff talks about how he got started with Kubernetes, the challenges that led him to search for a Container Network Interface (CNI), and why he has chosen Calico Open Source as his preferred CNI.
If you are just getting started with Kubernetes and curious about where other people start their journey, this blog post provides valuable insight and information.
Q: Please tell us a little bit about yourself, including where you currently work and what you do there.
I’m currently a senior cloud solutions architect at Tsunati. We are a data protection company and we focus on backup and recovery, mainly trying to help service providers enhance their services. We have a lot of virtualization expertise. In fact, I am a Veeam legend and a Veeam Vanguard. I also work quite intensely with Kasten by Veeam, which is a Kubernetes-native backup and recovery migration application.
Q: There are many people who are just getting started with Kubernetes and might have a lot of questions. Could you please talk a little bit about your own journey?
HS020 Are Operational and Technical Debt Complementary
We start debating the nature of technical debt. What is it, how is it created before moving into solutions. Then we take an unexpected turn into operational debt, why its more important and how software defined has delivered solutions here. Also, we dunk on digital transformation.
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HS020 Are Operational and Technical Debt Complementary
We start debating the nature of technical debt. What is it, how is it created before moving into solutions. Then we take an unexpected turn into operational debt, why its more important and how software defined has delivered solutions here. Also, we dunk on digital transformation.
Practical Python For Networking: 3.1 – Detection With Nornir – Installation And Inventory – Video
This episode in the Python series covers installing Nornir in your Python virtual environment. Course files are in a GitHub repository: https://github.com/ericchou1/pp_practical_lessons_1_route_alerts Eric Chou is a network engineer with 20 years of experience, including managing networks at Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. He’s the founder of Network Automation Nerds and has written the books Mastering […]
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Cisco Cat9300X – Tech Field Day
The other week I had the privilege of participating in Tech Field Day Exclusive with Cisco 2022. One of the …
The post Cisco Cat9300X – Tech Field Day first appeared on Fryguy's Blog.Practical Python For Networking: 3.3 Detection With Nornir – Detect Route Change – Video
Episode 3.3 walks through detecting a route change. You can find code samples for this example in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/ericchou1/pp_practical_lessons_1_route_alerts Eric Chou is a network engineer with 20 years of experience, including managing networks at Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. He’s the founder of Network Automation Nerds and has written the books Mastering Python […]
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Cloud Engineering For The Network Pro: Part 7 – DNS And Load Balancers – Video
The final video in this series on cloud engineering for network pros goes over DNS and load balancers and how to set them up in AWS and Azure. You can subscribe to the Packet Pushers’ YouTube channel for more videos as they are published. It’s a diverse a mix of content from Ethan and Greg, […]
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Wi-Fi 6E: Poised for Widescale Adoption
The biggest difference with Wi-Fi 6E is that devices use a dedicated 6E spectrum with additional 160 MHz channels. As such, Wi-Fi 6E connectivity has the potential to provide more bandwidth and lower latency.MikroTik – RouterOS v7 – BGP performance testing for full tables
MikroTik has come a long way since the first release of RouterOS v7 beta.
One of the long-awaited features is improved BGP performance and the ability to leverage multiple CPU cores.
Testing BGP performance is a long process of lab and prod evaluation, so we decided to run some quick and basic tests to get a baseline.
When the CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ was released and MikroTik entered the world of 100G, we ordered some right away to test and just got them in the lab a few days ago – the results are below.
Hope this is helpful and look for more BGP perf tests in the coming months!
The BGP testing lab
TLDR; 2.1 million routes learned and forwarding in 46 seconds and withdrawn in 44 seconds. This was tested under a 25 Gbps load on both routers with a cpu load of 12%.
Lab overview: The lab consists of (2) CCR2216 routers running ROSv7.2 stable connected to a ProxMox hypervisor that runs (4) Linux route generators and MikroTik CHRs (also on 7.2) acting as border routers. The specific connectivity is in the overview drawing below.
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