Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare’s implementation of NTS in Rust

Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare's implementation of NTS in Rust
Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare's implementation of NTS in Rust

Several months ago we announced that we were providing a new public time service. Part of what we were providing was the first major deployment of the new Network Time Security (NTS) protocol, with a newly written implementation of NTS in Rust. In the process, we received helpful advice from the NTP community, especially from the NTPSec and Chrony projects. We’ve also participated in several interoperability events. Now we are returning something to the community: Our implementation, cfnts, is now open source and we welcome your pull requests and issues.

The journey from a blank source file to a working, deployed service was a lengthy one, and it involved many people across multiple teams.

"Correct time is a necessity for most security protocols in use on the Internet. Despite this, secure time transfer over the Internet has previously required complicated configuration on a case by case basis. With the introduction of NTS, secure time synchronization will finally be available for everyone. It is a small, but important, step towards increasing security in all systems that depend on accurate time. I am happy that Cloudflare are sharing their NTS implementation. A diversity of software with NTS support is important for quick Continue reading

Upcoming Events and Webinars (November 2019)

In November 2019 we’ll continue the crazy pace of autumn 2019 webinar season:

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Looping your way through bash

There are a lot of options for looping in bash whether on the command line or in a script. The choice depends on what you're trying to do.You may want to loop indefinitely or quickly run through the days of the week. You might want to loop once for every file in a directory or for every account on a server. You might want to loop through every line in a file or have the number of loops be a choice when the script is run. Let's check out some of the options.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Simple loops Probably the simplest loop is a for loop like the one below. It loops as many times as there are pieces of text on the line. We could as easily loop through the words cats are smart as the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4.To read this article in full, please click here

Juniper set to reinforce edge networking, cloud

There is a fundamental, but perhaps a logical evolution in the way networks are being built to handle hybrid cloud applications – resources are moving closer to the edge; data centers are becoming more distributed and cloud hyperscalers are building bigger backbones to handle that traffic.That is the  overarching networking landscape laid out by  Juniper’s CTO Bikash Koley in an interview this week ahead of the company’s NXTWORK 2019 customer event next month. To read this article in full, please click here

Juniper set to reinforce core edge networking, cloud technologies

There is a fundamental, but perhaps a logical evolution in the way networks are being built to handle hybrid cloud applications – resources are moving closer to the edge; data centers are becoming more distributed and cloud hyperscalers are building bigger backbones to handle that traffic.That is the  overarching networking landscape laid out by  Juniper’s CTO Bikash Koley in an interview this week ahead of the company’s NXTWORK 2019 customer event next month. To read this article in full, please click here

Digital Realty Pays $8.4B for Interxion’s European Data Centers

The deal expands San Francisco-based Digital Realty’s European footprint and better positions it...

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Juniper set to reinforce edge, cloud technologies

There is a fundamental, but perhaps a logical evolution in the way networks are being built to handle hybrid cloud applications – resources are moving closer to the edge; data centers are becoming more distributed and cloud hyperscalers are building bigger backbones to handle that traffic.That is the  overarching networking landscape laid out by  Juniper’s CTO Bikash Koley in an interview this week ahead of the company’s NXTWORK 2019 customer event next month. To read this article in full, please click here

How SD-Branch Changes The Business Game

SD-branch is the next logical step from SD-WAN, creating a software-defined branch that's easily...

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Deutsche Telekom Tackles Cyber Theft, Cloud Management

The operator also unveiled a partnership with Siemens to deliver corporate services to German...

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NetApp Financial Woes Loom Over Keystone Launch

NetApp executives say the company’s all-flash and hybrid storage arrays have been a burden on...

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Everything you need to know about 10G, the future of broadband technology

With the emergence of more connected devices and immersive content experiences happening alongside an unparalleled boom of video streaming platforms, there’s never been a more critical time to have a powerful and reliable network than can meet the demands of the future. And that next big leap for digital mankind is 10G.What is 10G?  Not to be confused with the cellular industry’s 5G (meaning fifth generation), the “G” in 10G means gigabits per second, a blazing fast internet speed. 10G is the cable industry’s vision for delivering a remarkable 10 gigabits per second to homes in the U.S. and around the globe. Home internet speeds will be 10 times faster than today’s fastest broadband networks, staying ahead of your digital demands, especially as technology becomes even more integral in our day-to-day lives. To read this article in full, please click here

Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud

A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM. …

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Observability in Data Center Networks


Observability in Data Center Networks: In this session, you’ll learn how the sFlow protocol provides broad visibility in modern data center environments as they migrate to highly meshed topologies. Our data center workloads are shifting to take advantage of higher speeds and bandwidth, so visibility to east-west traffic within the data center is becoming more important. Join Peter Phaal—one of the inventors of sFlow—and Joe Reves from SolarWinds product management as they discuss how sFlow differs from other flow instrumentation to deliver visibility in the switching fabric.
THWACKcamp is SolarWinds’ free, annual, worldwide virtual IT learning event connecting thousands of skilled IT professionals with industry experts and SolarWinds technical staff. This video was one of the sessions.

Qualcomm-Backed Particle Banks $40M to Expand IoT Platform

“We have the largest developer community in the [IoT] industry. Almost 200,000 folks build their...

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