The Meraki SD-WAN is being positioned as an entry-level managed SD-WAN offering, with VMware's...
Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …
Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
GSMA Outlines Additional Keynote Speakers, Program and Event Updates
Broadband expansions: There were several news articles this week about broadband deployments, including places in the U.S. that still were lacking access. Masslive.com reports that Princeton, Massachusetts, with a population of more than 3,400, finally has gotten high-speed Internet access. More than 35 towns in the state still lack access. In Princeton, the local pizza place had been popular because it had WiFi service not available in other parts of the town.
New fiber build: Meanwhile, Facebook and non-profit MCNC are planning to deploy a fiber broadband network in five Western North Carolina counties, USNews.com reports. The fiber network will connect, among other sites, schools in four districts, the North Carolina School for the Deaf, five health care sites, four community colleges, and four public safety locations.
Alexa, give me broadband: Nasdaq.com has an article on Amazon’s plans to become an Internet service provider using a satellite system made up of 3,236 satellites. Amazon is asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for permission, but some cable companies are opposed, as are SpaceX and OneWeb, which both have their own plans for satellite broadband service.
No faces on Facebook: Even as Facebook plans broadband expansions, it Continue reading
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
Unless you’re working for a cloud-only startup, you’ll always have to connect applications running in a public cloud with existing systems or databases running in a more traditional environment, or connect your users to public cloud workloads.
Public cloud providers love stable and robust solutions, and they took the same approach when implementing their legacy connectivity solutions: you could use routed Ethernet connections or IPsec VPN, and run BGP across them, turning the problem into a well-understood routing problem.
Read more ...The measure and mismeasure of fairness: a critical review of fair machine learning, Corbett-Davies & Goel, arXiv 2018
With many thanks to Ben Fried and the ACM Queue editorial board for the paper recommendation.
We’ve visited the topic of fairness in the context of machine learning several times on The Morning Paper (see e.g. [1]1, [2]2, [3]3, [4]4). I’m still picking up new insights every time I revisit the topic though, and today’s paper choice is no exception.
In 1911 Russell & Whitehead published Principia Mathematica, with the goal of providing a solid foundation for all of mathematics. In 1931 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem shattered the dream, showing that for any consistent axiomatic system there will always be theorems that cannot be proven within the system. In case you’re wondering where on earth I’m going with this… it’s a very stretched analogy I’ve been playing with in my mind. One premise of many models of fairness in machine learning is that you can measure (‘prove’) fairness of a machine learning model from within the system – i.e. from properties of the Continue reading
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been organizing my collection of media files. I discovered a bunch of video lurking in an archive folder I’d forgotten about, featuring hiking and other adventures. So, I uploaded several of these usually short videos to my personal YouTube channel featuring mostly the New Hampshire wilderness & mountains.
This kicked off a chain reaction to upload more current adventuring video. If this is your sort of thing, enjoy at https://www.youtube.com/user/nh48ecb/. If this is not your sort of thing, thanks for humoring me.
If you’re not sure what to think, here’s a short video I re-discovered that gives you an idea of the scenery I’ve collected over the years. Maybe that will help you decide if you care. 
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Time to time we are getting the messages from you that it is getting tougher to find a proper job in the pure networking world. Success of self-service models coming from the clouds and hyperscalers creates the push on the traditional networking business. In its turn, this transformation requires network engineers to gain new skills such as programming and data analytics.
Don’t wait to be kicked out of IT business. Join our network automation training to secure your job in future. Come to NetDevOps side.
If you still don’t feel it is necessary, take a look at skills needed for network engineer role these days at open job positions.
To avoid any confusions, we continue writing about multivendor network development and automation. However, we feel it is necessary to start talking also about the software development and programming at a basic level. The network engineers in a vast majority aren’t very familiar with the Python, Ansible and even Bash, so we want to cover this gap.
The best way to get comprehensive skills in this area is to get to our network automation Continue reading
Arista Networks buys Big Switch; VMware loses $237M patent infringement lawsuit; and Nokia cuts 180...
In January 2020 Doug Heckaman documented his experience with VeloCloud SD-WAN. He tried to be positive, but for whatever reason this particular bit caught my interest:
Edge Gateways have a limited number of tunnels they can support […]
WTF? Wasn’t x86-based software packet forwarding supposed to bring infinite resources and nirvana? How badly written must your solution be to have a limited number of IPsec tunnels on a decent x86 CPU?
Read more ...SD-WAN's purpose is changing. It's no longer about just shifting traffic off of MPLS networks, said...
Misconfiguration, a widespread threat that requires a low level of sophistication, tops the...
Big Blue CEO is out, and IBM's C-Suite has turned red; AWS sales hit $10B; and Orange tapped...