The Week in Internet News: Australian Lawmakers Push for ‘Fix’ to Encryption Law

An encryption fix: The Australian Labor Party says it will push for changes to an encryption law, passed in late 2018, that requires tech comp anies to give law enforcement agencies access to encrypted communications, ZDNet reports. Labor Party lawmakers have raised concerns about the law’s effect on the country’s tech industry, but it appears they don’t have the votes to make changes.

Telemedicine needs access: The use of telemedicine is growing, but low speeds in rural Internet are delaying its benefits to parts of Indiana, according to a story from the Kokomo Tribune, posted at Govtech.com. Some Internet-based diagnosis services need interactive videoconferencing technology with fast broadband speeds that aren’t available in parts of the state.

The future of IoT security: IoT World Today has six predictions for Internet of Things security in 2020. Among them: Facilities managers will become more concerned about smart building security, with buildings becoming a new avenue of attack. The security of 5G networks will also become an issue with new attacks on the way.

Goodbye WhatsApp: WhatsApp has begun automatically removing Kashmiri residents from WhatsApp, due to a long-running Internet shutdown in the region controlled by India, The Verge reports. WhatsApp’s Continue reading

Ericsson Corruption Probe Takes $1B Bite

“Through slush funds, bribes, gifts, and graft, Ericsson conducted telecom business with the...

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Adlink Tackles Industrial IoT as Latest 5G-Drive Member

The 5G-Drive consortium has its sights set on the development of 5G autonomous drone scouts and...

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Network Break 264: Broadcom’s New Tomahawk 4 Hits 25.6Tbps; Juniper Announces SD-LAN For EX Switches

Take a Network Break! Broadcom ships its fastest ASIC yet, the 15.6Tbps Tomahawk 4; Juniper Networks gets a new CTO, enables cloud control of its EX switches; and rolls out new CPE; Palo Alto Networks reports its latest quarterly financials, and we cover lots of listener follow-up.

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Tech Bytes: Vitec Group Transforms Its WAN With Silver Peak’s SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Vitec Group has transformed its global WAN with an SD-WAN rollout from Silver Peak. The company has boosted the performance of critical business applications, reduced backup latency by 70%, and decommissioned expensive MPLS circuits in favor of DIA. Find out how in this sponsored Tech Bytes podcast. Our guest is Ben Skinner, head of corporate networks and infrastructure at Vitec Group.

Tech Bytes: Vitec Group Transforms Its WAN With Silver Peak’s SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Vitec Group has transformed its global WAN with an SD-WAN rollout from Silver Peak. The company has boosted the performance of critical business applications, reduced backup latency by 70%, and decommissioned expensive MPLS circuits in favor of DIA. Find out how in this sponsored Tech Bytes podcast. Our guest is Ben Skinner, head of corporate networks and infrastructure at Vitec Group.

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Money Moves: November 2019

Google buys CloudSimple, challenges VMware Cloud on AWS; Palo Alto Networks announced plans to...

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Segment Routing (SR) – What You Need To Know

This blog will provide you insights to help you on your journey on Segment Routing (SR) by...

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Firewall Analytics: Now available to all paid plans

Firewall Analytics: Now available to all paid plans
Firewall Analytics: Now available to all paid plans

Our Firewall Analytics tool enables customers to quickly identify and investigate security threats using an intuitive interface. Until now, this tool had only been available to our Enterprise customers, who have been using it to get detailed insights into their traffic and better tailor their security configurations. Today, we are excited to make Firewall Analytics available to all paid plans and share details on several recent improvements we have made.

All paid plans are now able to take advantage of these capabilities, along with several important enhancements we’ve made to improve our customers’ workflow and productivity.

Firewall Analytics: Now available to all paid plans

Increased Data Retention and Adaptive Sampling

Previously, Enterprise customers could view 14 days of Firewall Analytics for their domains. Today we’re increasing that retention to 30 days, and again to 90 days in the coming months. Business and Professional plan zones will get 30 and 3 days of retention, respectively.

In addition to the extended retention, we are introducing adaptive sampling to guarantee that Firewall Analytics results are displayed in the Cloudflare Dashboard quickly and reliably, even when you are under a massive attack or otherwise receiving a large volume of requests.

Adaptive sampling works similar to Netflix: when your internet connection runs low Continue reading

Announcing deeper insights and new monitoring capabilities from Cloudflare Analytics

Announcing deeper insights and new monitoring capabilities from Cloudflare Analytics
Announcing deeper insights and new monitoring capabilities from Cloudflare Analytics

This week we’re excited to announce a number of new products and features that provide deeper security and reliability insights, “proactive” analytics when there’s a problem, and more powerful ways to explore your data.

If you’ve been a user or follower of Cloudflare for a little while, you might have noticed that we take pride in turning technical challenges into easy solutions. Flip a switch or run a few API commands, and the attack you’re facing is now under control or your site is now 20% faster. However, this ease of use is even more helpful if it’s complemented by analytics. Before you make a change, you want to be sure that you understand your current situation. After the change, you want to confirm that it worked as intended, ideally as fast as possible.

Because of the front-line position of Cloudflare’s network, we can provide comprehensive metrics regarding both your traffic and the security and performance of your Internet property. And best of all, there’s nothing to set up or enable. Cloudflare Analytics is automatically available to all Cloudflare users and doesn’t rely on Javascript trackers, meaning that our metrics include traffic from APIs and bots and are not skewed Continue reading

Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling

5G promises super-fast connections, low latency and better coverage. In the manufacturing realm, early adopter Whirlpool is deploying a private 5G network in one its Ohio factories to solve a major problem: Driverless vehicles inside the plant rely on Wi-Fi to navigate, and they stop dead when the factory environment causes the signal to degrade. The sidelined vehicles create traffic jams, slow down production, and require hands-on attention before they can resume delivering parts.To read this article in full, please click here

Brief Briefing: Public Clouds Are Aggressively Proprietary

Packet Pushers has a podcast channel, Briefings in Brief, dedicated to shorter shows that focus on a single topic. It struck me that I haven’t mentioned it here. In this Brief I’m highlighting the lack of interoperability between clouds. When thinking more deeply, I realised that there is an aggressive lack of co-operation between cloud […]

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BGP- and Car Safety

The Facts and Fiction: BGP Is a Hot Mess blog post generated tons of responses, including a thoughtful tweet from Laura Alonso:

Is your argument that the technology works as designed and any issues with it are a people problem?

A polite question like that deserves more than 280-character reply, but I tried to do my best:

BGP definitely works even better than designed. Is that good enough? Probably, and we could politely argue about that… but the root cause of most of the problems we see today (and people love to yammer about) is not the protocol or how it was designed but how sloppily it’s used.

Laura somewhat disagreed with my way of handling the issue:

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A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM Bittman et al., PLOS’19

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it. It’s a comparatively small gathering with a great mix of people, and fabulous discussions. A big thank you to everyone that I met there for making me feel so welcome.

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. It’s a really bold project (‘let’s rethink the OS from the ground up’) and generated a lot of lively discussion.

(Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data.

The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model:

  1. Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable. Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path Continue reading

What’s hot for Cisco in 2020

As the industry gets ready to gear up for 2020 things have been a  little disquieting in networking land.That’s because some key players – Arista and Juniper in particular – have been reporting business slowdowns as new deals have been smaller than expected and cloud providers haven’t been as free-spending as in the past.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Worldwide IT spending has been on the slow side, Gartner said in October that worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.4% from 2018, the lowest growth forecast so far in 2019. The good news: global IT spending is expected to rebound in 2020 with forecast growth of 3.7%, primarily due to enterprise software spending, Gartner stated.To read this article in full, please click here

Google Cloud bare-metal initiative targets migrating legacy apps from on-prem

In the cloud-services market, bare metal offerings have lagged behind virtualized ones, mostly because the use of the cloud for things like elastic apps and developer environments are better suited to instances with a native operating system.The term “bare metal” simply means no software of any kind, not even a hypervisor. Customers provide their own operating environments, and the provider offers nothing more than CPUs, memory, and storage. Up to now, IBM has led the charge with bare-metal services because SoftLayer, the major data-center provider it acquired in 2014, was heavily involved in that business.To read this article in full, please click here

What’s hot for Cisco in 2020

As the industry gets ready to gear up for 2020 things have been a  little disquieting in networking land.That’s because some key players – Arista and Juniper in particular – have been reporting business slowdowns as new deals have been smaller than expected and cloud providers haven’t been as free-spending as in the past.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Worldwide IT spending has been on the slow side, Gartner said in October that worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.4% from 2018, the lowest growth forecast so far in 2019. The good news: global IT spending is expected to rebound in 2020 with forecast growth of 3.7%, primarily due to enterprise software spending, Gartner stated.To read this article in full, please click here

Counting down the days using bash

With some pretty important holidays right around the corner, you might need to be reminded how much longer you have to prepare.Fortunately, you can get a lot of help from the date command. In this post, we’ll look at ways that date and bash scripts can tell you how many days there are between today and some event that you’re anticipating.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] First a couple hints at how this is going to work. The date command’s %j option is going to show you today’s date as a number between 1 and 366. January 1st, as you’d expect, will be displayed as 1 and December 31st will be 365 or 366 depending on whether it’s leap year. Go ahead and try it. You should see something like this:To read this article in full, please click here

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