Microsoft Bakes Marvell ThunderX2 Into Azure
The servers are the result of a collaboration that began in March 2017 between Marvell, Microsoft,...
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The Internet Society & Public Interest Registry: A New Era of Opportunity
Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the .ORG Community. Earlier today, the Internet Society and Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced that they have reached an agreement with Ethos Capital, an investment firm that helps transform and grow companies in today’s rapidly evolving digital economy, under which Ethos Capital will acquire PIR and all of its assets from the Internet Society.
As brief background – in 2002, the Internet Society won a competitive bidding process for the .ORG registry and established PIR to manage and operate the .ORG domain. Since that time, the Internet Society and PIR have worked to grow .ORG into the largest purpose-driven domain – used today by millions of organizations and others to achieve their online goals – and PIR’s contributions to the Internet Society have helped make the Internet more available, accessible and secure for people around the world.
This transaction aligns PIR with a strong, new strategic partner, Ethos Capital, that not only possesses a deep understanding of the intricacies of the domain industry, but also has the ideal mix of expertise, experience and shared values to further advance the goals of .ORG into the future. Continue reading
Google Injects Network Intelligence Center Into GCP
The cloud giant's Network Intelligence Center packs four tools aimed at helping customers monitor,...
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Liqid Scores $28M Series B, CEO Touts ‘Record Profit’
Companies including Inspur and Dell Technologies sell Liqid’s switch and software inside their...
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MPLS over IP Encapsulations and Comparison between MPLS over LSP
Do you need an LSP for MPLS ?
In this post, I will go through below topics. This is one of the points which network engineers struggle to understand as I have seen.
Design considerations for network mergers and acquisitions
Network mergers and acquisitions are the processes which can be seen in any type of businesses. As a network designers, our job to identify the business requirements of both existing networks and the merged network and finding best possible technical solutions for the business.
Do You Really Need Quality of Service?
Quality of service (QoS) is the overall performance of a telephony or computer network, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network.
Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Service Providers
What is tier in the first place ? If you are dealing with Service Provider networks, you hear this term a lot. But how we define Tier 1,Tier 2 and Tier 3 Service Providers ?
What is reliability in networking?
What is reliability in networking ? Why reliability is an important design tool ? I will provide the answers of these questions with the examples in this post.
Is Fate Sharing bad thing in network design?
Is fate sharing bad thing in network design? Someone asked this question recently on my youtube channel and I want to share a post for the website followers as well.
First of all, what is fate sharing ? Below is the Wikipedia definition of fate sharing.
Packet loss with Fast Reroute!
Do we still lose packet with fast reroute? One of my students asked me this question. And I would like to share the answer with everyone.
I discussed some IP Mobility solutions including LISP!
Couple days ago I discussed some IP Mobility solutions, including LISP (Locator Identity Separation Protocol) with the CCDE students.
CCDE Before and After!
Don’t expect technical topic in this post. Instead I wanted to show how was my situation before and after the CCDE – Cisco Certified Design Expert !. Enjoy 
Fast Convergence and the Fast Reroute – Definitions/Design Considerations in IP and MPLS
Fast Convergence and the Fast Reroute Network reliability is an important design aspect for deployability of time and loss sensitive applications. When a link, node or SRLG failure occurs in a routed network, there is inevitably a period of disruption to the delivery of traffic until the network reconverges on the new topology.
TIP Plugs Critical Mass, Expands Community Labs
Technology prototypes tested and validated by the group are now commercially available and being...
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Can We Really Use Millions of VXLAN Segments?
One of my readers sent me a question along these lines…
VXLAN Network Identifier is 24 bit long, giving 16 us million separate segments. However, we have to map VNI into VLANs on most switches. How can we scale up to 16 million segments when we have run out of VLAN IDs? Can we create a separate VTEP on the same switch?
VXLAN is just an encapsulation format and does not imply any particular switch architecture. What really matters in this particular case is the implementation of the MAC forwarding table in switching ASIC.
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