Dish Firm on 5G Costs

“We’re not going to convince anybody until you see our first market and you can touch it, and...

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SAP Re-Vamps Org Structure, Exits 2 Board Members

The moves continue what has been a tumultuous 12 months for the company as it has increased its...

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Cisco IoT Platform Gains Machine Learning

The Cisco IoT Control Center has also grown from managing 20 million IoT devices in 2016, to more...

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IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.

IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.

The post IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises appeared first on Packet Pushers.

What Is Closed-Loop Automation?

During Networking Field Day 22 last week, a lot the questions that were directed at the presenters had to do with their automation systems. One term kept coming up that I was embarrassed to admit that I’d never heard of. Closed-loop automation is the end goal for these systems. But what is closed-loop automation? And why is it so important. I decided to do a little research and find out.

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To understand closed-loop systems, you have to understand open-loop systems first. Thankfully, those are really simple. Open-loop systems are those where the output isn’t directly affected by the control actions of the system. It’s a system where you’re going to get the output no matter how you control it. The easiest example is a clothes dryer. There are a multitude of settings that you can choose for a clothes dryer, including the timing of the cycle. But no matter what, the dryer will stop at the end of the cycle. There’s no sensor in a basic clothes dryer that senses the moisture level of the clothes and acts accordingly.

Open-loop systems are stable and consistent. Every time you turn on the dryer, it will run until it finishes. Continue reading

Why TIA Calls Supply Chain Security the ‘Most Critical Global Telecom Issue’

The industry group recently launched an initiative to develop telecommunications supply chain...

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Corning Tackles In-Building 5G With Qualcomm’s Help

The companies announced a partnership with to develop 5G mmWave infrastructure for enterprises and...

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MWC Barcelona: What Might Have Been

The event might not be happening, but that doesn't mean we are going to ignore the big trends we...

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Multi-SSO and Cloudflare Access: Adding LinkedIn and GitHub Teams

Multi-SSO and Cloudflare Access: Adding LinkedIn and GitHub Teams

Cloudflare Access secures internal applications without the hassle, slowness or user headache of a corporate VPN. Access brings the experience we all cherish, of being able to access web sites anywhere, any time from any device, to the sometimes dreary world of corporate applications. Teams can integrate the single sign-on (SSO) option, like Okta or AzureAD, that they’ve chosen to use and in doing so make on-premise or self-managed cloud applications feel like SaaS apps.

However, teams consist of more than just the internal employees that share an identity provider. Organizations work with partners, freelancers, and contractors. Extending access to external users becomes a constant chore for IT and security departments and is a source of security problems.

Cloudflare Access removes that friction by simultaneously integrating with multiple identity providers, including popular services like Gmail or GitHub that do not require corporate subscriptions. External users login with these accounts and still benefit from the same ease-of-use available to internal employees. Meanwhile, administrators avoid the burden in legacy deployments that require onboarding and offboarding new accounts for each project.

We are excited to announce two new integrations that make it even easier for organizations to work securely with third parties. Starting Continue reading

Cisco: IoT traffic is taking over; 5G, WiFi 6 are ascending

If the industry needed more evidence that IoT devices and applications are taking over the world, Cisco this week said that by 2023 machine-to-machine communications will make up 50% or about 14.7 billion of all networked connections compared to 33% (6.1 billion) in 2018 and 3.1 percent in 2017.The  M2M findings were just a part of Cisco’s annual forecast of networking trends now called the Cisco Annual Internet Report. The report replaces the Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast and looks at everything from 5G and Wi-Fi growth to broadband trends collected from actual network traffic reports and independent analyst forecasts.To read this article in full, please click here

Retrieving the Kubeconfig for a Cluster API Workload Cluster

Using Cluster API allows users to create new Kubernetes clusters easily using manifests that define the desired state of the new cluster (also referred to as a workload cluster; see here for more terminology). But how does one go about accessing this new workload cluster once it’s up and running? In this post, I’ll show you how to retrieve the Kubeconfig file for a new workload cluster created by Cluster API.

(By the way, there’s nothing new or revolutionary about the information in this post; I’m simply sharing it to help folks who may be new to Cluster API.)

Once CAPI has created the new workload cluster, it will also create a new Kubeconfig for accessing this cluster. This Kubeconfig will be stored as a Secret (a specific type of Kubernetes object). In order to use this Kubeconfig to access your new workload cluster, you’ll need to retrieve the Secret, decode it, and then use it with kubectl.

First, you can see the secret by running kubectl get secrets in the namespace where your new workload cluster was created. If the name of your workload cluster was “workload-cluster-1”, then the name of the Secret created by Cluster API would Continue reading

BrandPost: The Silver Peak SD-WAN Edge Platform: It’s Way Better Than Fast Food

In my most recent blog post, I talked about the difficulty SD-WAN vendors have in finding their voice and clearly differentiating their value. My point was that if Wendy’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s could figure out how to differentiate their burgers and fries, we should be able articulate why customers choose our solutions over the 60+ vendors competing for their business. I started out talking about the business reasons why companies select Silver Peak. Now it’s time to talk about our differentiation at a product level.How is our SD-WAN edge platform, Unity EdgeConnect™, unique? I’ll frame the differentiation around what our customers are telling us. You’ll notice a significant emphasis on our ability to improve application performance for any type of application traversing any type of transport. We’re the only company that first tries to fix problems with the underlying network, allowing customers to fully leverage all of their circuits, even in instances of degraded performance. Unlike others, we don’t just re-route packets in the event of transport brownouts and blackouts.To read this article in full, please click here

Intel Slashes Jobs Despite Record Quarter

The layoffs, which will affect between 128 and 1,100 Intel employees around the world, come after a...

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Daily Roundup: Google Gobbles Cornerstone

Google gobbled up Cornerstone; Blue Planet boosted Ciena's 5G routers; and SentinelOne scored $200M...

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