Cumulus Networks’ President and Chief Product Officer, Partho Mishra, on the NVIDIA-Cumulus acquisition.
With the acquisition of Cumulus Networks and Mellanox by NVIDIA, there have been a lot of questions regarding the strategic focus of the new networking business unit at NVIDIA and the future of the open networking approach that Cumulus Networks pioneered.
The open networking journey continues
Mellanox and Cumulus are absolutely committed to open networking and allowing our customers to pick best-of-breed solutions. Cumulus will continue to support all of the hardware platforms on our Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and to add new hardware platforms from multiple hardware partners to the HCL. Mellanox already offers multiple Network-Operating-Systems — ONYX, SONIC, Cumulus Linux – to customers and this continues unchanged. In terms of total code commits to open source projects, such as FRR, SONIC and the Linux networking kernel, Cumulus+Mellanox have contributed very heavily in the past and will continue to do so in the future. This is an integral part of our DNA.
Check out the latest episode of Kernel of Truth to hear me and Amit Katz discuss more about the future of open networking including how SONIC and Cumulus Linux will work together, what happens to open “campus” networking and the next generation of in-band telemetry.
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Cisco Security Biz Gets New Chief, New Name, Unified Platform
SecureX integrates all of Cisco’s network, endpoint, cloud, and application security products, as...
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HPE Edge Orchestrator Targets Telco 5G, Edge Plans
The platform is designed to allow telecom operators to maintain more control over their edge...
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Telefónica’s ElevenPaths Taps Fortinet for Industrial Security
Fortinet’s platform provides visibility and management across IT and OT devices, which allows...
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Internet Society and Alliance for Affordable Internet Partner to Promote Community Networks and Expand Access for All
The Internet Society and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), an initiative of the World Wide Web Foundation, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further their existing partnership to collaborate on promoting community networks to expand meaningful connectivity, and other areas of joint interest.
A4AI is a global coalition working to drive down the cost of Internet access in low- and middle-income countries through policy and regulatory reform. The Internet Society is a member of A4AI, and the two organizations share a vision of an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone.
Both organizations have emphasized the importance of solid research, capacity building, and advocacy to develop the policies needed to reduce the cost to connect and enable everyone, everywhere to access Internet connectivity. A4AI and ISOC believe community networks provide a sustainable solution to address connectivity gaps that exist in underserved urban, remote, and rural areas around the world.
This MoU formalizes a longstanding relationship between the two organizations. In the past, we’ve worked together to collaborate on common policy and regulatory objectives across numerous UN and international fora to promote and advocate for the expansion of public access solutions through community networks, Continue reading
Full Stack Journey 043: Lighting Up The Firecracker Project For Serverless Computing
Firecracker is an open-source project, launched by AWS, for serverless computing. On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Michael Hausenblas of AWS joins host Scott Lowe to talk about Firecracker, how it works, its adoption, and more. They also touch on EKS, Fargate, and Lambda.
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Full Stack Journey 043: Lighting Up The Firecracker Project For Serverless Computing
Firecracker is an open-source project, launched by AWS, for serverless computing. On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Michael Hausenblas of AWS joins host Scott Lowe to talk about Firecracker, how it works, its adoption, and more. They also touch on EKS, Fargate, and Lambda.
Automate Image Compression for Blogging
Adding images and screenshots to posts is good but size is a consideration
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EVPN: The Great Unifying Theory of VPN Control Planes?
I claimed that “EVPN is the control plane for layer-2 and layer-3 VPNs” in the Using VXLAN and EVPN to Build Active-Active Data Centers interview a long long while ago and got this response from one of the readers:
To me, that doesn’t compute. For layer-3 VPNs I couldn’t care less about EVPN, they have their own control planes.
Apart from EVPN, there’s a single standardized scalable control plane for layer-3 VPNs: BGP VPNv4 address family using MPLS labels. Maybe EVPN could be a better solution (opinions differ, see EVPN Technical Deep Dive webinar for more details).
Dell PowerScale Restores Order to Unstructured Data
In addition to the new unstructured data storage systems, Dell unveiled intelligent data software...
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Extreme’s New Normal Looks Like Unlimited Cloud Data, WiFi 6
The networking vendor is set to begin offering unlimited data to its cloud customers for the...
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China Unicom Selects Nokia Core Networking Products for 5G
Deal includes multiple Nokia Software, ION products, including Unified Data Management, User Plane...
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AT&T Continues to Build 5G on the Nation’s Best Wireless Network
AT&T’s 5G network is now live for consumers in 137 additional markets across the country and...
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Wipro Partners With Citrix and Microsoft to Drive Business Continuity for Customers
Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services...
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Daily Roundup: IBM Buys Cloud Security Startup
IBM bought cloud security startup Spanugo; Nokia added Broadcom 5G chips to its ReefShark...
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4 years on air.
Hello my friend,
Traditionally in the beginning of June (5th of June to be accurate), we celebrate the anniversary of our blogging. And in this year it is already 4 years, since we started in 2016!
In terms of the absolute numbers, we have crossed the mark in 100 posted blogs! Hurray! And we were marked as Cisco Champion 2020 one more time! Also Hurray!
Let’s reflect what has happened global as well…
Live automation training
The biggest new introduction is the live online network automation training. Years of real practical experience of implementing and automating network solutions for service provider and data centres across Europe and North America are now available for you. Just join our network automation training in this run or in any next and learn:
- Why to automate?
- How to automate?
- What is the toolkit (YANG, XML, YAML, JSON, Protobuf, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI/gRPC, VS Code, Atom, POSTman, Python, Ansible, Linux, Docker and many others)?
- How do different vendors behave (Cisco, Nokia, Arista, Cumulus)?
GitHub projects
There were multiple mini-series of the blogposts supported by the code at the GitHub:
Measuring the Core
This last week I was a guest on the TechSequences podcast with Leslie and Alexa discussing the centralization of the routed infrastructure in the ‘net. When that episode posts, I’ll cross post it here (but, of course, you should really just subscribe to their podcast, as they always have interesting guests—I’ll have Leslie and Alexa on the Hedge at some point, as well). The topic is related to this post on CircleID about the death of transit, which was a reaction to Geoff Huston’s article on the death of transit some time before.
All that to say… while reading through some research papers this week, I ran into a recent (2018) paper where Carisimo et al. try out different ways of measuring which autonomous systems belong to the “core” of the ‘net. They went about this by taking a set of AS’ “everyone” acknowledges to be “part of the core,” and then trying to find some measurement that successfully describes something all of them have in common.
The result is the k-metric, which measures the connectivity of an AS’ peers. If an AS has peers who are just as connected as they are, then k-metric is high. Otherwise, the k-metric Continue reading
GSMA Cancels MWC LA Event Due to COVID-19 Concerns
The trade group was forced to nix this year’s MWC Barcelona event just as the pandemic was...
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Nokia Adds Broadcom ASICs to 5G ReefShark Portfolio
Earlier this year Nokia announced plans to use Intel and Marvell's base station chips in its...
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