SD-WAN Squares and Perplexing Planes
The latest arcane polygon is out in the SD-WAN space. Normally, my fortune telling skills don’t involve geometry. I like to talk to real people about their concerns and their successes. Yes, I know that the gardening people do that too. It’s just that no one really bothers to read their reports and instead makes all their decisions based on boring wall art.
Speaking of which, I’m going to summarize that particular piece of art here. Note this isn’t the same for copyright reasons but close enough for you to get the point:
So, if you can’t tell by the colors here, the big news is that Cisco has slipped out of the top Good part of the polygon and is now in the bottom Bad part (denoted by the red) and is in danger of going out of business and being the laughing stock of the networking community. Well, no, not so much that last part. But their implementation has slipped into the lower part of the quadrant where first-stage startups and cash-strapped companies live and wish they could build something.
Cisco released a report rebutting those claims and it talks about how Viptela is a huge part of Continue reading
VMware, Silver Peak Lead SD-WAN Pack; Cisco, Riverbed Lose Ground
Gartner's latest WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report has VMware and Silver Peak leading that market in...
Update: Using pyATS in Network Automation
A month ago I described how Paddy Kelly used pyATS to get VRF data from a Cisco router to create per-VRF connectivity graphs.
Recently he also wrote a short article describing how to get started with pyATS and Ansible. Thank you, Paddy!
Amazon CTO Details Virtualization Journey
The decades-old framework of virtualization is unfit for modern cloud infrastructure and, as such,...
Heavy Networking 492: Using Streaming Telemetry To Inform And Enhance Automation (Sponsored)
Streaming telemetry is an essential element in a network automation framework. On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Juniper Networks joins the podcast to discuss how telemetry differs from traditional monitoring such as SNMP, how telemetry informs and enhances automation, and how to consume telemetry to make it actionable without overwhelming network operators (or your collectors). Our guest is Javier Antich from Juniper's Automation Software team.
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The Latest Release of CA NetOps Delivers Superior SD-WAN Fault Management
The top reasons to upgrade to the latest release of CA NetOps fault management to ensure successful...
Bringing Objects and Files Under One Roof
One of the biggest storage decisions being considered by customers nowadays is how they want to manage their data: as cloud-like objects or as traditional files. …
Bringing Objects and Files Under One Roof was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 6th, 2019
Wake up! It's HighScalability time:
Formation of a single massive galaxy through time in the TNG50 cosmic simulation. It traces the simultaneous evolution of thousands of galaxies over 13.8 billion years of cosmic history. It does so with more than 20 billion particles representing dark matter, stars, cosmic gas, magnetic fields, and supermassive black holes. The calculation required 16,000 cores working together, 24/7, for more than a year.
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Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading)...Technology Short Take 121
Welcome to Technology Short Take #121! This may possibly be the last Tech Short Take of 2019 (not sure if I’ll be able to squeeze in another one), so here’s hoping that you find something useful, helpful, or informative in the links that I’ve collected. Enjoy some light reading over your festive holiday season!
Networking
- Brian Linkletter has a post on how to run the Antidote network emulator on KVM for better performance. Antidote, as I understand it, is the network emulator that runs the labs on the NRELabs web site (which is another cool thing in and of itself). In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. That’s a good place to be right now, in my opinion.
- Anders Olsson explains how to map NSX-T UUIDs to the actual logical objects.
- Julien Demierre has three-part series on interfaces and uplinks for ESXi/Edge in NSX-T deployments (part 1, part 2, and part 3).
- This is an old(er) post that I’ve probably mentioned here before, but I think it still has relevance. Brent Salisbury’s post on Golang for Network Ops not only points out why networking pros Continue reading
Aviatrix CEO: SD-WAN Is Dead. AWS Killed It
Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney says using SD-WAN to connect branch offices to the cloud misses the...
BiB084 – Public Clouds Are Proprietary and Dont Care About You
Apparently this is a controversial idea.BiB084 – Public Clouds Are Proprietary and Dont Care About You
Apparently this is a controversial idea.
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Weekly Wrap: Juniper CTO Bikash Koley Calls It Quits
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Dec. 6, 2019: One former Google exec replaces another at Juniper;...
AWS Pins Enterprise Cloud Success on 4 Initiatives
Enterprises have to foster senior-level alignment, an aggressive top-down goal to move fast, put a...
Cloudflare’s Response to CSAM Online
Responding to incidents of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online has been a priority at Cloudflare from the beginning. The stories of CSAM victims are tragic, and bring to light an appalling corner of the Internet. When it comes to CSAM, our position is simple: We don’t tolerate it. We abhor it. It’s a crime, and we do what we can to support the processes to identify and remove that content.
In 2010, within months of Cloudflare’s launch, we connected with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and started a collaborative process to understand our role and how we could cooperate with them. Over the years, we have been in regular communication with a number of government and advocacy groups to determine what Cloudflare should and can do to respond to reports about CSAM that we receive through our abuse process, or how we can provide information supporting investigations of websites using Cloudflare’s services.
Recently, 36 tech companies, including Cloudflare, received this letter from a group of U.S Senators asking for more information about how we handle CSAM content. The Senators referred to influential New York Times stories published in late September and early November Continue reading
Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — November 2019
Juniper CTO Bikash Koley calls it quits; Nokia Kills COO role amid struggles; plus the latest...
Replacing Orange Livebox router by a Linux box
A few months ago, I moved back to France and I settled for Orange as an ISP with a bundle combining Internet and mobile subscription. In Switzerland, I was using my own router instead of the box provided by Swisscom. While there is an abundant documentation to replace the box provided by Orange, the instructions around a plain Linux box are kludgy. I am exposing here my own variation. I am only interested in getting IPv4/IPv6 access: no VoIP, no TV.
Hardware
Orange is using GPON for its FTTH deployment. Therefore, an ONT is needed to encapsulate and decapsulate Ethernet frames into GPON frames. Two form-factors are available. It can be small Huawei HG8010H box also acting as a media converter to Ethernet 1000BASE-T:
With a recent Livebox, Orange usually provides an SFP to be plugged inside the Livebox. For some reason I got the external ONT instead of the SFP version. As I have a Netgear GS110TP with two SFP ports, I have bought an SFP GPON FGS202 on eBay. It is the same model than Orange is providing with its Livebox 4. However, I didn’t get Continue reading
Video: Cloud Models, Layers and Responsibilities
In late spring 2019, Matthias Luft and Florian Barth presented a short webinar on cloud concepts, starting with the obvious topic: cloud models, layers, and responsibilities.
You need Free ipSpace.net Subscription to watch the video, and the Standard ipSpace.net Subscription to register for a deeper dive into cloud security with Matthias Luft (next live session on December 10th: Identity and Access Management).