Mavenir’s O-RAN Push Swells Into Stockholm

Network Operators in Latin America and the Caribbean Take Steps to Strengthen Routing Security

2019 has been a very good year for the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean. In May, during the 31st meeting of LACNIC, several operators pledged to take steps to make routing security, and the Internet itself, stronger. They joined the MANRS initiative, which includes four simple and concrete steps to improve the Internet’s security and reliability. In August, NIC Mexico convened the second meeting of network operators in the country, during which routing security stood out as one of the main issues on the agenda.

The Internet Society also made progress on collaboration with National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and higher education institutions. During the TICAL 2019 meeting, we offered a workshop on MANRS in collaboration with RedClara, LACNIC, the University of Guadalajara, ANUIES, and the Autonomous University of Yucatán. This workshop was part of a series of virtual sessions started in April, which ended on October 2 during the ANUIES-TIC meeting with a long-term practical workshop.

As we head to the final stretch of the year, the 32nd meeting of LACNIC will be a new opportunity to work with network operators to improve the security of the Internet. From Panama we will advise anyone interested in Continue reading

Visit the VMware NSX Team at SpringOne Platform 2019

Come see VMware and the NSX team at SpringOne Platform in Austin, TX from October 7-11 in booth T1!

Why Attend SpringOne Platform?

SpringOne Platform is Pivotal’s annual conference for developers, IT operators and leaders, platform managers, and anyone else that wants to be part of one of the most vibrant software development communities in the world. Developers use Spring to build and run millions of mission-critical applications that organizations rely on every day. It enables developers to build software quickly, securely, and globally with modern distributed platform technologies like Kubernetes and Pivotal Application Service (PAS).

Realize the Value of DevOps with NSX and Pivotal

But this is a blog about networking, right? So why are we so excited to talk about SpringOne Platform, and why are we asking you to come have a chat with us? The answer gets at the heart of how VMware and Pivotal are enabling customers to realize the value of cloud-native apps and DevOps practices.

VMware’s NSX family of products gives developers and operators a continuous cloud networking fabric, built in software, that not only exists in the data center but also extends to public clouds and to the edge. Using a software-defined Continue reading

Heavy Networking 475: Anticipating 5G’s Impact On Enterprise Wi-Fi

On today's Heavy Networking podcast, Greg and Ethan engage in a thought experiment: Will 5G and private LTE allow enterprises to get rid of their own wireless networks and shift much of that responsibility on telcos and just let them do it? They explore this idea from the telco and enterprise perspectives.

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Equinix Pays $175M, Moves Into Mexico Data Center Market

Weekly Wrap: AT&T Lobs White Box Router Design at OCP

Understanding BGP Labeled Unicast

We’ve talked in previous posts on how we can use LDP and RSVP as label distribution protocols. Without LDP and RSVP – we wouldn’t be able to easily create LSPs which means we’d have to do it manually as we did in my first post on MPLS. That being said – the discussion around MPLS label distribution usually focuses around these two protocols, but you might (or might not depending on how long you’ve been in networking) be surprised to learn that we can also use BGP to advertise labels. That is – we can build end to end LSPs without the use of LDP or RSVP. Using BGP for label distribution comes with it’s own set of requirements (and associated oddities) so in this post we’ll talk through the use case.

Advertising labels through BGP is something that we’ve seen before. Specifically, we saw it in the MPLS VPN use case where PE routers advertise a VPN label so that the remote PE knows what VRF/VPN the traffic belongs in. In that use case, we did a BGP peering with the inet-vpn address family. To do BGP labeled unicast (commonly called BGP-LU) we do a BGP peering with the Continue reading

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Redundant BGP Connectivity on a Single ISP Connection

A while ago Johannes Weber tweeted about an interesting challenge:

We want to advertise our AS and PI space over a single ISP connection. How would a setup look like with 2 Cisco routers, using them for hardware redundancy? Is this possible with only 1 neighboring to the ISP?

Hmm, so you have one cable and two router ports that you want to connect to that cable. There’s something wrong with this picture ;)

Dish Network’s 5G Plans Set for Market ‘Inflection Point’

Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — September 2019

Segment Routing (SR) And Traffic Engineering (TE): Part Two

Adtran Somersaults Into SD-WAN Market

IDG Contributor Network: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): A reflection of our times

There’s a buzz in the industry about a new type of product that promises to change the way we secure and network our organizations. It is called the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). It was first mentioned by Gartner, Inc. in its hype cycle for networking. Since then Barracuda highlighted SASE in a recent PR update and Zscaler also discussed it in their earnings call. Most recently, Cato Networks announced that it was mentioned by Gartner as a “sample vendor” in the hype cycle.To read this article in full, please click here

The “Easy Button” for SDN Control of Physical and Virtual Data Center Networks

Ciena Pulls Centina Into Blue Planet’s Orbit

Equinix Bids $200M for Mexico Data Centers, Bloomberg Reports

DARPA looks for new NICs to speed up networks

The government agency that gave us the Internet 50 years ago is now looking to drastically increase network speed to address bottlenecks and chokepoints for compute-intensive applications.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an arm of the Pentagon, has unveiled a computing initiative, one of many, that will attempt to overhaul the network stack and interfaces that cannot keep up with high-end processors and are often the choke point for data-driven applications.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] The DARPA initiative, Fast Network Interface Cards, or FastNICs, aims to boost network performance by a factor of 100 through a clean-slate transformation of the network stack from the application to the system software layers running on top of steadily faster hardware. DARPA is soliciting proposals from networking vendors. .To read this article in full, please click here

ETSI Sharpens AI Security Focus

IPv6 Buzz 036: IPv4 Special Addresses And IPv6 Adoption