T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Hits State AG Hurdles
Some analysts now think the deal's approval chances are at less than 50%.
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Does Riverbed’s Deal With Versa Signal a New SD-WAN Future?
"Vendors want to ensure they can sell SD-WAN in conjunction with other services to maximize...
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AlefEdge Launches Manhattan Project for Open Edge Ecosystem
It uses the vendor’s Open5G Platform edge software stack and enables network operators and...
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Configure Network Cards by PCI Address with Ansible Facts
In this post, you will learn advanced applications of Ansible facts to configure Linux networking. Instead of hard-coding device names, you will find out how to specify network devices by PCI addresses. This prepares your configuration to work on different Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases with different network naming schemes.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles
The RHEL System Roles provide a uniform configuration interface across multiple RHEL releases. However, the names of network devices in modern Linux distributions can often not be stable for various releases. In the past, the kernel named the devices after their order of appearance. The first device got the name eth0, the next eth1, and so on.
To make the device names more reliable, developers introduced other methods. This interferes with creating a release-independent network configuration based on interface names. An initial solution to this problem is to address network cards by MAC address. But this will require an up-to-date inventory with MAC addresses of all network cards. Also, it requires updating the inventory after replacing broken hardware. This results in extra work. To avoid this effort, it would be great to be able to specify network cards by their PCI address. Continue reading
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Cisco CEO Takes High Road on 5G, China
SDxeCentral Weekly Wrap for June 14, 2019: Cisco stays above the Huawei fray; Intel puts its shoes...
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European Chapters Meeting: Consolidation, Trust, and More on the Agenda
The 2019 European Chapters Meeting took place from 9-10 May in Bucharest, Romania. (Watch the livestream here.)
The two-day event gathered 31 participants consisting of 22 fellows coming from 20 Internet Society Chapters in the European region. The meeting agenda focused on discussions around Consolidation on the Internet Economy, Encryption, Consumer IoT Privacy & Security, and the Internet of Food.
This meeting was part of a series of events the Internet Society is organizing in 2019 across regions. It was particularly important because of the valuable feedback the Chapters provided on the key questions of the 2019 Global Internet Report and the direction of the long-term objectives for Strategy 2025.
- Carl Gahnberg, Policy Advisor at Internet Society gave a presentation on consolidation and the 2019 Global Internet Report (GIR). The importance of connecting with different audiences makes the 2019 GIR relevant not only for the Internet Society community, but also policymakers and the broader public. The report shows that trends in Internet Applications, the Access Provision, and Service Infrastructure and looks at trends of consolidation in the Internet economy. Unlike in past years, the report doesn’t provide recommendations but outcome questions. Participants discussed these outcome questions and the main Continue reading
Project Galileo: the view from the front lines
Growing up in the age of technology has made it too easy for me to take the presence of the Internet for granted. It’s hard to imagine not being able to go online and connect with anyone in the world, whether I’m speaking with family members or following activists planning global rallies in support of a common cause. I find that as I forget the wonder of being connected, I become jaded. I imagine that many of you reading this blog feel the same way. I doubt you have gone a month, or even a week, this year without considering that the world might be better off without the Internet, or without parts of the Internet, or that your life would be better with a digital cleanse. Project Galileo is my antidote. For every person online who abuses their anonymity, there is an organization that literally could not fulfill their purpose without it. And they are doing amazing work.
Working with Participants
As program manager for Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s initiative to provide free services to vulnerable voices on the Internet, a large portion of my time is spent interacting with the project’s participants and partners. This includes a variety of Continue reading
Why Cisco is Not A Networking Company Anymore
I wanted to put down some evidence on why Cisco is more than a networking company. I consider this useful information for people who are planning their careers and particularly those peopel who are investing in certification programs. Its my view that Cisco has outgrown networking. Some reasons are: Cisco no longer dominates the networking […]
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Looking for What’s Not There
DNSSEC is often viewed as a solution looking for a problem. It seems only logical that there is some intrinsic value in being able to explicitly verify the veracity and currency of responses received from DNS queries, yet fleshing this proposition out with practical examples has proved challenging. Where else might DNSSEC be useful?Feedback: Ansible for Networking Engineers
I always love to hear from networking engineers who managed to start their network automation journey. Here’s what one of them wrote after watching Ansible for Networking Engineers webinar (part of paid ipSpace.net subscription, also available as an online course).
This webinar helped me a lot in understanding Ansible and the benefits we can gain. It is a big area to grasp for a non-coder and this webinar was exactly what I needed to get started (in a lab), including a lot of tips and tricks and how to think. It was more fun than I expected so started with Python just to get a better grasp of programing and Jinja.
In early 2019 we made the webinar even better with a series of live sessions covering new features added to recent Ansible releases, from core features (loops) to networking plugins and new declarative intent modules.