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The Week in Internet News: Governments Pressure Facebook to Halt Encryption Plans

Anti-encryption demands: Government officials from the U.S., U.K., and Australia have asked Facebook to put a hold on its plans to expand encryption on services like Messenger, CNet reports. “We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens,” says a letter signed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other officials.

This law is not fake: A new fake news law in Singapore has taken effect, SPDP Radio says. The law includes penalties of up to US $60,000 and 10 years in prison for people found guilty of spreading what the government considers to be fake news. Web sites could face fines of more than $720,000 for not taking down so-called fake news after being ordered to do so. Free speech advocates have major problems with the law, as you might expect.

The lines are cut: Internet access in most of Iraq was shut down after violent protest in the country, CNet says. Some people were Continue reading

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ONUG, MEF Want to Clarify SD-WAN Decisions

The partnership is focused on ensuring that SD-WAN vendors are developing products that meet the...

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Tech Bytes: MidSouth Bank Invests In Network Performance, Visibility With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)

On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode we talk with MidSouth Bank CIO Daniel Hereford about how he's using SD-WAN from Silver Peak to support the bank's transformation to a hybrid cloud model, while also improving network visibility and performance for mission-critical applications.

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Tech Bytes: MidSouth Bank Invests In Network Performance, Visibility With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)

On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode we talk with MidSouth Bank CIO Daniel Hereford about how he's using SD-WAN from Silver Peak to support the bank's transformation to a hybrid cloud model, while also improving network visibility and performance for mission-critical applications.

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Vodafone Embraces OpenRAN on Home Turf

Vodafone, an early proponent of the Telecom Infra Project’s OpenRAN initiative, says it started...

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Transform Your Career: Attend Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe

Register now for Attend Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe held October 28 - 30,...

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Verizon and NEC Infuse AI Into Deployed Fiber

The technology cocktail can support smart city initiatives without having to rip up streets to...

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Network Break 255: Adtran Gets Into SD-WAN; Google Preps Chrome To Block HTTP Mixed With HTTPS

Today's Network Break analyzes Adtran's entry into the SD-WAN market, a new IBN product from Lumina Networks, the latest software upgrade from NTOP, Google's timeline for blocking HTTP elements in HTTPS sessions in Chrome, plus a couple of detailed follow-ups, and a Tech Bytes show.

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Network Break 255: Adtran Gets Into SD-WAN; Google Preps Chrome To Block HTTP Mixed With HTTPS

Today's Network Break analyzes Adtran's entry into the SD-WAN market, a new IBN product from Lumina Networks, the latest software upgrade from NTOP, Google's timeline for blocking HTTP elements in HTTPS sessions in Chrome, plus a couple of detailed follow-ups, and a Tech Bytes show.

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Kill the restructure | The IT Skeptic

Don't underestimate engineers. They are smarter than people comprehend.

The post Kill the restructure | The IT Skeptic appeared first on EtherealMind.

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Optimizing Environment Setup in Ansible Playbooks

Have you ever seen an Ansible playbook where 90% of the code prepares the environment, and then all the work is done in a few template and assemble modules? Here’s an alternative way of getting that done. Is it better? You tell me ;)

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Xilinx unveils open source FPGA platform

The Vitis unified software platform from FPGA vendor Xilinx is the result of five-year project to create software development tools using familiar languages like C++ and Python to develop a wide range of applications for its reprogrammable chip.The beauty of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) is their configurable, adaptable nature. That's also what makes programming them a king-sized challenge. They're difficult to work with for an unskilled programmer who is not well versed in hardware, and they often require esoteric languages.Vitis supports heterogeneous architectures including Xilinx’s Zynq SoCs, MPSoCs, and Versal ACAPs. Vitis is designed to enable highly optimized, domain-specific acceleration to a wide array of applications, from cloud deployments, to machine learning and AI, to IoT and desktop applications. Think of it as being for Xilinx what CUDA is to Nvidia.To read this article in full, please click here

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How you charge your mobile phone could compromise its battery lifespan

Convincing research that wireless chargers aren't good (yet)

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Site-to-Site OpenVPN on VyOS

The tutorial discusses configuration of site-to-site VPN on VyOS using preshared-key. Static key configuration offers the simplest setup, and is ideal for point-to-point VPNs or proof-of-concept testing. The advantages of using static key are simple setup and no X509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to maintain. The disadvantages are limited scalability - one client, one server setup and the lack of perfect forward secrecy - key compromise results in a total disclosure of previous sessions. Also, a secret key must exist in plain-text form on each VPN peer and it must be exchanged using a pre-existing secure channel.

Our lab consists of two remote sites (Picture 1). The router running network OS - VyOS is presented on each side, connecting computers PC and PC2 to to a particular LAN network. The both VyOS routers are configured forOpenVPN site-to-site mode and the routers also perform NAT (PAT) and firewall services.

Picture 1 - Network Topology

1. VyOS Site1 Configuration

1.1 Hostname, IP addresses, SSH

vyos@vyos:~$ configure
vyos@vyos# set system host-name Site1

yos@vyos# commit
vyos@vyos# save

vyos@Site1# set interfaces ethernet eth1 address 10.0.0.254/24
vyos@Site1# set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 11.0.2.1/24

vyos@Site1# set service ssh

vyos@Site1# commit
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BlueShore Taps HPE Primera: ‘Way Easier, Way Less Waste’

Primera storage will help the financial firm to reduce its data center footprint and improve its...

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Worth Reading: Anycast DNS in Enterprise Networks

Anycast (advertising the same IP address from multiple servers/locations) has long been used to implement scale-out public DNS services (the whole root DNS system runs on massive anycast), but it’s not as common in enterprise networks.

The blog posts written by Tom Bowles should get you there. He started with the idea and described his implementation using Infoblox DNS.

Want to know even more? I covered numerous load balancing mechanisms including anycast in Data Centers Infrastructure for Networking Engineers webinar.

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Contribute to the 2019 Network World State of the Network survey

Network World’s annual State of the Network study provides a comprehensive view of technology adoption trends among network IT.This definitive research focuses on technology implementation objectives and reveals how leading objectives change the way IT decision-makers do their jobs, as well as the way their organizations function.Survey results reveal trends about how network teams collaborate with other departments in the corporate structure, what factors derive technology investment, which way IT spending is moving and more.This year Network World is looking for IT pros’ experience with technologies including 5G, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi and Edge ComputingTo read this article in full, please click here

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High performance computing: Do you need it?

In today's data-driven world, high performance computing (HPC) is emerging as the go-to platform for enterprises looking to gain deep insights into areas as diverse as genomics, computational chemistry, financial risk modeling and seismic imaging. Initially embraced by research scientists who needed to perform complex mathematical calculations, HPC is now gaining the attention of a wider number of enterprises spanning an array of fields."Environments that thrive on the collection, analysis and distribution of data – and depend on reliable systems to support streamlined workflow with immense computational power – need HPC," says Dale Brantly, director of systems engineering at Panasas, an HPC data-storage-systems provider.To read this article in full, please click here

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High performance computing: Do you need it?

In today's data-driven world, high performance computing (HPC) is emerging as the go-to platform for enterprises looking to gain deep insights into areas as diverse as genomics, computational chemistry, financial risk modeling and seismic imaging. Initially embraced by research scientists who needed to perform complex mathematical calculations, HPC is now gaining the attention of a wider number of enterprises spanning an array of fields."Environments that thrive on the collection, analysis and distribution of data – and depend on reliable systems to support streamlined workflow with immense computational power – need HPC," says Dale Brantly, director of systems engineering at Panasas, an HPC data-storage-systems provider.To read this article in full, please click here

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Fast Friday Thoughts – Networking Field Day 21

This week has been completely full at Networking Field Day 21 with lots of great presentations. As usual, I wanted to throw out some quick thoughts that fit more with some observations and also to set up some topics for deeper discussion at a later time.

• SD-WAN isn’t just a thing for branches. It’s an application-focused solution now. We’ve moved past the technical reasons for implementation and finally moved the needle on “getting rid of MPLS” and instead realized that the quality of service and other aspects of the software allow us to do more. That’s especially true for cloud initiatives. If you can guarantee QoS through your SD-WAN setup you’re already light years ahead of where we’ve been already.
• Automation isn’t just figuring out how to make hardware and software do things really fast. It’s also about helping humans understand which things need to be done fast and automatically and which things don’t. For all the amazing stuff that you can do with scripting and orchestration there are still tasks that should be done manually. And there are plenty of people problems in the process. Really smart companies that want to solve these issues should stop focusing on using Continue reading