Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany Embrace 5G DSS
The race to blanket Germany with 5G got underway last July and market leader Deutsche Telekom now...
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Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency
A month ago I wrote about changes in Internet traffic caused by the COVID-19 emergency. At the time I wrote:
Cloudflare is watching carefully as Internet traffic patterns around the world alter as people alter their daily lives through home-working, cordon sanitaire, and social distancing. None of these traffic changes raise any concern for us. Cloudflare's network is well provisioned to handle significant spikes in traffic. We have not seen, and do not anticipate, any impact on our network's performance, reliability, or security globally.
That holds true today; our network is performing as expected under increased load. Overall the Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update.
Growth
Here's a chart showing the relative change in Internet use as seen by Cloudflare since the beginning of the year. I've calculated moving average of the trailing seven days for each country and use December 29, 2019 as the reference point.
On this chart the highest growth in Internet use has been in Portugal: it's currently running at about a 50% increase Continue reading
Final Results of the 2020 Board Elections and IETF Selection
The Internet Society Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final results of the 2020 elections and the IETF selection for the Board of Trustees.
The voting concluded on 3 April. The results were announced and the challenge period was opened on 6 April. The deadline to file challenges was 15 April. One challenge was filed in the Chapters election. In accordance with the Procedures for Selecting Trustees, Internet Society President Andrew Sullivan, the chairs of the Nominations and Elections committees, and the other members of the board discussed the merits of the challenge. In the end, the board decided that the challenge was without merit and rejected it.
Therefore, the election results announced on 6 April stand:
- Ndeye Maimouna Diop and George Sadowsky have been elected by Chapters, and
- Ted Hardie has been elected by Organization Members.
Also, following the process documented in RFC 3677, the Internet Architecture Board, on behalf of the IETF, has selected:
The term of office for all of the new Trustees will be three years, commencing with the 2020 Annual General Meeting, 1-2 August.
The Elections Committee congratulates all the new Trustees and expresses its gratitude once more to all Continue reading
Las Vegas Networking Groups
If you’re in Las Vegas, Nevada, and are looking for the best places to enjoy your time and your quality business networking, do your research first and don’t spread yourself too thin.
There is a huge difference between the Las Vegas business referral organization and Las Vegas business networking organization. Here are a few you should get to know well.
3 Las Vegas Business Networking Groups
BNI
Both networking organizations and business referral organizations could be really valuable to make your business grow. If you are a member of BNI for a very long time in Las Vegas and if you put the effort into the business networking group, it would help your business grow in ways you can’t imagine. They both meet every week and attendance is necessary.
Trustegrity
Trustegrity gathers its members once a month and gives you relationships and increase the number of referrals among those in it. It is not strict about the whole one person per profession like BNI. In Las Vegas, there are a lot of different other business networking organizations that feature one member per profession. They usually have a structure in which they meet either twice a week or once a week. Continue reading
Can We Trust Server DSCP Marking?
A reader of my blog sent me this question:
Do you think we can trust DSCP marking on servers (whether on DC or elsewhere - Windows or Linux )?
As they say “not as far as you can throw them”.
Does that mean that the network should do application recognition and marking on the ingress network node? Absolutely not, although the switch- and router vendors adore the idea of solving all problems on their boxes.
AWS CLI Installation and Setup
Getting the AWS CLI installed and setup.AWS CLI Installation and Setup
In this post I will show you how to get the AWS CLI install and setup so that you can interact with AWS service via the CLI on your local machine. Installation At the time of writing there are two version of the AWS CLI. It is recommended to install version 2 of the software as all the...Daily Roundup: IBM Container Apps Hide Behind Fortanix
IBM and Fortanix doubled down on confidential computing; Google Anthos built a bridge to AWS; and...
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Kernel of Truth season 3 episode 5: Routing protocols in the datacenter fabric
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Hosts Roopa Prabhu and Pete Lumbis are joined by a special guest to the podcast, Russ White! The group come together virtually to discuss what we should think about when it comes to routing protocols in the datcenter. What are the tradeoffs when using traditional protocols like OSPF or BGP? What about new protocols like RIFT or a hybrid approach with things like BGP-link state? Spoiler alert: it depends.
Guest Bios
Roopa Prabhu: Roopa Prabhu is Chief Linux Architect at Cumulus Networks. At Cumulus she and her team work on all things kernel networking and Linux system infrastructure areas. Her primary focus areas in the Linux kernel are Linux bridge, Netlink, VxLAN, Lightweight tunnels. She is currently focused on building Linux kernel dataplane for E-VPN. She loves working at Cumulus and with the Linux kernel networking and debian communities. Her past experience includes Linux clusters, ethernet drivers and Linux KVM virtualization platforms. She has a BS and MS in Computer Science. You can find her on Twitter at @__roopa.
Pete Lumbis: Pete, CCIE R&S #28677 and CCDE 2012::3, is Continue reading
Ericsson Weathers Pandemic With ‘Limited Impact’
Ericsson closed Q1 with 86 commercial 5G contracts and 29 live 5G networks. It activated an...
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NetApp Introduces Project Astra for Kubernetes Portability
Project Astra offers a normalized application data management approach that results in the...
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AT&T Boasts Confidence Amid Chaos
“AT&T’s been through a lot of other crises before and each time you’ve seen us emerge in...
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Aqua Attacks Container Image-Based Malware in Sandbox
Dynamic Threat Analysis protects containerized applications from image-based malware by...
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Bufferbloat in Action due to Covid-19
Four people now live and work in my home 24×7; my wife Andi, her mother, my daughter and myself. Many of you now live in similar situations.
Very occasionally, everyone will have network trouble, such as occurred to us this morning. Sometimes it is our “last mile” connection: it is easy to see these failures in our cable modem log. (Often available by looking at the address 192.168.100.1, which seems to be the default address for cable modems.). Occasionally it can be the ISP (in our case, Comcast), either due to some routing failure or DNS failure. These can be harder to diagnose.
Bufferbloat, however, is insidious. It comes and goes, and most users have been “trained” to ignore temporary bad behavior over many years. When you go to diagnose it, you usually stop the operation that is causing it. This blog has recorded our efforts to fix bufferbloat. Now that there are many more people at home at the same time trying to do more demanding applications, this problem is much more common. Other people in your home can inflict the bufferbloat problem on you without you or they understanding what is happening.
Yesterday afternoon Continue reading
Day Two Cloud 045: Tackling Multi-Cloud Challenges With An Actual Multi-Cloud Consumer
We get the architectural nitty-gritty on a multi-cloud migration to Azure and Oracle Cloud on today's Day Two Cloud podcast. Guest Snehal Patel, Network and Cloud Architect for a large corporation, walks us through design and migration details as his company moves applications into two different public clouds.Day Two Cloud 045: Tackling Multi-Cloud Challenges With An Actual Multi-Cloud Consumer
We get the architectural nitty-gritty on a multi-cloud migration to Azure and Oracle Cloud on today's Day Two Cloud podcast. Guest Snehal Patel, Network and Cloud Architect for a large corporation, walks us through design and migration details as his company moves applications into two different public clouds.
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How does the IETF work? – John Scudder, Distinguished Engineer @ Juniper Networks
In this episode we discuss with John Scudder how to drive an idea to a standard via the standards organisation IETF.
John is a IETF veteran and tells us all about workgroups, chairs, drafts and RFCs.
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