Another Portent of the Decline and Fall of the Telco
The Swedish carrier group Telia has recently announced the sale of its international wholesale business to Polhelm Infra, an infrastructure investment manager jointly owned by a number of Swedish pension funds. Why would a telco operator sell off what was a core part of its operation to a pension fund?Tech Bytes: Instrumenting For Hybrid Work With AppNeta (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we talk with AppNeta about instrumenting application performance to support on-prem and remote employees in today's hybrid work environment. Our AppNeta guests are Sean Armstrong, VP of Products; and Alec Pinkham Director of Product Marketing.Tech Bytes: Instrumenting For Hybrid Work With AppNeta (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we talk with AppNeta about instrumenting application performance to support on-prem and remote employees in today's hybrid work environment. Our AppNeta guests are Sean Armstrong, VP of Products; and Alec Pinkham Director of Product Marketing.
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Whatever it is, you need more (RFC1925 rule 9)
There is never enough. Whatever you name in the world of networking, there is simply not enough. There are not enough ports. There is not enough speed. There is not enough bandwidth. Many times, the problem of “not enough” manifests itself as “too much”—there is too much buffering and there are too many packets being dropped. Not so long ago, the Internet community decided there were not enough IP addresses and decided to expand the address space from 32 bits in IPv4 to 128 bits in IPv6. The IPv6 address space is almost unimaginably huge—2 to the 128th power is about 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses. That is enough to provide addresses to stacks of 10 billion computers blanketing the entire Earth. Even a single subnet of this space is enough to provide addresses for a full data center where hundreds of virtual machines are being created every minute; each /64 (the default allocation size for an IPv6 address) contains 4 billion IPv4 address spaces.
But… what if the current IPv6 address space simply is not enough? Engineers working in the IETF have created two different solutions over the years for just this eventuality. In 1994 RFC1606 provided a Continue reading
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Network Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine
Today's Network Break podcast delves into security issues at SolarWinds and SonicWall, discusses a new network offload capability between NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks, comments on Japanese bureaucrats who refuse to give up their fax machines, and more tech news.
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Network Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine
Today's Network Break podcast delves into security issues at SolarWinds and SonicWall, discusses a new network offload capability between NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks, comments on Japanese bureaucrats who refuse to give up their fax machines, and more tech news.The Importance of Having a Good Data Destruction Policy
Data destruction is an often-overlooked, yet vital operation that requires good policy to minimize the risk of data breaches.The Week in Internet News: U.S. Health Official Warns of COVID Misinformation Online
Bad information: The U.S. surgeon general, the nation’s top public health spokesman, is calling on social media outlets to crack down on misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines, The New York Times reports. Misinformation about the pandemic and the vaccines available is “an urgent threat to public health,” Dr. Vivek Murthy said. “Modern […]
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Who decides if the network is unhealthy?
I started in networking at Amazon in the fall of 2002. When we were paged for a problem it was because one of the users/services on the network was having problems and they thought it was the network. We never knew ourselves that the network was broken until somebody told...Bash #1. Automating Troubleshooting (Cumulus) Linux Networking
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Very often at our zero-to-hero network automation training we are asked, what is the benefit of Bash? Why do we need to know Bash, if everyone is talking about Bash? The question is absolutely legitimate. One of the interesting and also legitimate answers I’ve just figured the last week.
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Do you finally write about network automation?
Everything in your network and IT operational processes can be automated. It is just matter of the resources (time, money, efforts) you spent on that against the gain you are obtaining. Basically, that is something what financial guys and girls call ROI (Return On Investments). The bigger the outcome and the lower the effort, the better the overall automation solution.
In our automation trainings we explain various use cases and success (and failure) strategies, how to build the (network) automation systems and tools, to make sure your gain is maximum. Our instructors have an extensive experience building Continue reading
What Drives Innovation in Business?
The world is running competition. The more businesses that pop up, the more the competition increases. The increase in competition gives birth to a concept called “innovation.” Innovation is a concept that isn’t foreign, and after every few decades, there comes a shift in the world where innovation takes over. People nowadays shift very fast from new ideas to other ideas, so businesses need to keep up with that. They need to be able to produce ideas that are new, interesting, and innovative.
The question arises, what drives innovation in business and what is business innovation in the first place?
What is Business Innovation?
Business innovation is when businesses and companies bring new ideas, plans, and services to their customers, which will help not only boost their popularity but also help boost their revenue and profit. Innovations in business keep them relevant through time and make them the top business they want to refer to.
Why a Business Needs Innovation?
Another question that many business owners ask a lot is, what drives innovation in business? What makes it a driving force that essentially propels a business from a small-time business to a big company? Here Continue reading
Should We Embrace Points of Failure?
There was a tweet making the rounds this last week that gave me pause. Max Clark said that we should embrace single points of failure in the network. His post was an impassioned plea to networking rock stars out there to drop redundancy out of their networks and instead embrace these Single Points of Failure (SPoF). The main points Mr. Clark made boil down to a couple of major statements:
- Single-device networks are less complex and easier to manage and troubleshoot. Don’t have multiple devices when an all-in-one works better.
- Consumer-grade hardware is cheaper and easier to understand, therefore it’s better. Plus, if you need a backup you can just buy a second one and keep it on the shelf.
I’m sure more networking pros out there are practically bristling at these suggestions. Others may read through the original tweet and think this was a tongue-in-cheek post. Let’s look at the argument logically and understand why this has some merit but is ultimately flawed.
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I’m going to tackle the second point first. The idea that you can use cheaper gear and have cold standby equipment just sitting on the shelf is one that I’ve heard of many Continue reading
Vodfaone NB-IOT, Fipy and AWS
Timeline : 2-4 months on a occasional weekends
Having a sensor to sense things is one story, Having an on-field sensor is another story in itself. While powering up the sensor and weather proofing is not the intention of this blog post but sure they are the other aspects that one needs to address before moving to higher layer communications.
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Issue – Have a sensor on Field, make sure it communicates itself to AWS IOT end platform. This is not that simple, that too without using high cost end products which abstracts everything from end-user. To put it in simple terms, you have a field or a farm which is quite away from your home and without a power resource, what would you do ?
Lora is one the most effective option that works for us, while I did setup a Gateway and end-node Lora Device, this post aims at something more simple without involving Lora, I will cover Continue reading
Heavy Networking 589: Cloud Networking’s Good, Bad, And Ugly: What CSPs Don’t Tell You (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking examines how some of the unpleasant bits of cloud networking can be improved, particularly in the areas of troubleshooting, visibility, security, and automation. Our sponsor is Aviatrix, and they’ve sent us three architects to nerd out about cloud network design and how Aviatrix might fit into the picture. Our guests are Brad Hedlund and James Devine from Aviatrix, and customer Chris Oliver with NI.Heavy Networking 589: Cloud Networking’s Good, Bad, And Ugly: What CSPs Don’t Tell You (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking examines how some of the unpleasant bits of cloud networking can be improved, particularly in the areas of troubleshooting, visibility, security, and automation. Our sponsor is Aviatrix, and they’ve sent us three architects to nerd out about cloud network design and how Aviatrix might fit into the picture. Our guests are Brad Hedlund and James Devine from Aviatrix, and customer Chris Oliver with NI.
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