Percentage of HTTPS (TLS) Encrypted Traffic on the Internet ?
Reviewing a Threat report from Fortinet Networks suggests that 73% of internet traffic is now encrypted. Thats a substantial change in five years for a network protocol. More than I expected but good news that the status quo CAN be changed. I wonder what happened to telcos that were selling data extracted from capturing HTTP […]
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New Year, New Post, NFDx!
You may be thinking “Wait, he hasn’t posted in ages.. how lazy is he?” but thankfully I haven’t been entirely slothful for the last seven months. Most recently I authored a series of six posts related to SDN and automation on the Solarwinds Orange Matter blog. I can’t republish that content here, but I will be sharing links to the posts in the coming days and I hope you’ll find them interesting and thought-provoking.
Cisco SP – Networking Field Day Exclusive!
More immediately, I’m preparing to start the new year with a quick trip to see Cisco’s Service Provider group at a Networking Field Day Exclusive event. I’ve seen the proposed agenda, and it looks like it’s going to be an intense day filled with the kind of topics that I know my readers will appreciate. As always, I’ll be posting about some of the topics covered (maybe even all of them…who knows?), but it’s even better if you can take part too.
The event takes place on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019. If you can, I recommend hopping on the live stream on Tech Field Day and then using the #TFDx hashtag on Twitter to join in the Continue reading
Huawei Works With Arm, Not Intel, on New CPU
Huawei says it will still continue its long-term strategic partnerships with Intel, but that computing demands have become more diverse.
Radware Snaps Up ShieldSquare for New Bot Management Product Line
ShieldSquare provides an API-based service that leverages machine learning to detect and eliminate “bad bots” from a variety of applications.
Windstream sells EarthLink consumer internet business
Another nail in the “telco cannot provide customised services” folder. Windstream sells its consumer business: “This transaction enables us to divest a non-core segment and focus exclusively on our two largest business units. In addition, it improves our credit profile and metrics in 2019 and beyond,” said Tony Thomas, president and CEO of Windstream. As […]
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Sprint and T-Mobile Throw More 5G Pieces on the Table
Sprint is touting a new Samsung device while T-Mobile completed a 5G data session with Ericsson and Intel.
Former Red Hat CEO Backs Tidelift’s $25M Series B
The startup's business model works like this: companies pay Tidelift a subscription, and in return they receive support for the open source projects they use from the developers who created and maintain these projects.
Bouygues Telecom Signals 5G Progress as France Gets Its Ducks in Line
France may have been propelled to the 5G race by the U.S. and South Korea, but its 5G roadmap and competitive mobile players support its ambition to play a leading role.
Investing in Indigenous Connectivity Is an Investment in Our Future Online
There’s one New Year’s resolution we can bank on to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of people across North America this year, and it doesn’t involve buying into health fads or gadgets.
The newly-released 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) Community Report shows a strong correlation between Indigenous connectivity and the well-being and sustainability of rural and remote Indigenous communities, especially when solutions are local.
The report summarizes outcomes of the 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit that brought nearly 140 Indigenous leaders, policy makers, network operators, and community members to the Arctic community of Inuvik, NT last October.
Like most New Year’s resolutions, connectivity solutions are neither quick nor cheap. This is especially true in northern rural and remote regions of the U.S. and Canada with geographic hurdles that make it hard for Internet service providers to achieve economies of scale.
It’s one of the main reasons today in 2019, millions of people across North America – yes, millions – still don’t have access to reliable broadband Internet.
Last October, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities called on the federal government to invest $4 billion over ten years to connect all Canadians to the Canadian Radio-television and Communications Commission’s universal Continue reading
Network Break 216: 2018 Observations And 2019 Speculations
Happy new year! Today's Network Break episode analyzes key themes and tech trends from 2018, and looks ahead on what might influence and affect IT and tech in 2019. Ethan Banks joins as guest prognosticator.
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Announcing Heavy Networking
In January 2019, Packet Pushers Weekly Podcast will rebrand to Heavy Networking.
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The Week in Internet News: Massachusetts Town Says ‘No Thank You’ to Broadband Network
Build your own: A Massachusetts town has declined an offer from a major ISP to build a high-speed broadband network and instead will create its own, the Boston Globe reports. While a locally owned network will initially cost more, residents of Charlemont say they want local control and local customer service.
Congo shuts it off: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has shut down the Internet in several cities after a much-delayed presidential election, the BBC reports. Opposition candidate Martin Fayulu’s campaign accused the government of ordering the shutdown to avoid broadcasting his “overwhelming victory.” The shutdown in the Congo shows that China’s philosophy of Internet censorship is spreading, CNN comments.
Bangladesh, too: Meanwhile, Bangladesh ordered its own mobile network shutdown related to an election, Engadget reports. The country’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission shut down 3G and 4G mobile data ahead of its Dec. 30 parliamentary elections to “prevent rumors and propaganda” from influencing the vote.
Blockchain marries IoT: Some large companies are looking for ways to use the blockchain technology with the Internet of Things, Network World says. Volkswagen is one of the companies, and automotive uses for blockchain include authenticating mileage for a lease return, or remote, Continue reading
Identifying the Hidden Challenges Facing IT Infrastructure
Complexity and rapid technological advancement are making data center environments difficult to navigate.
VyOS 1.2.0 Epa2 Realased
Finally, VyOS 1.2 epa2 ISO live image is released to subscribers. VyOS is a Linux-based network operating system that provides software-based network routing, firewall, and VPN functionality.
Free subscription is available for contributors, nonprofits and educational and research institutions, and both long-time contributors. Everyone who contributed before the release model change gets a perpetual subscription, the amount of contributions doesn’t matter. After that, contributing within a given year will give us a yearly subscription. If you are not a subscriber you can still download VyOS rolling release or built the ISO image from the source code.
You can use my Bash and Expect scripts to automatize VyOS 1.2.0 installation to VMware disk image. The scripts are available in the Script (1.1) section. Firstly, run the script deploy_vyos-1.2.0.sh and after the ISO images boots up, you can run the second script install_vyos-1.2.0.sh. You can run the image using GNS3 project and test open-source routing.
Large Layer-2 Domains Strike Again…
I started January 2018 blogging with a major service provider failure. Why should 2019 be any different? Here’s what Century Link claimed was causing two-day outage (more comments here).
Supposedly it was a problem with the management network used by their optical gear, but it looks a lot like a layer-2 network spanning 15 data centers and no control-plane policing on the managed devices… proving yet again that large-scale layer-2 networks are a really bad idea.
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