Australia Bans Carriers from Using Huawei and ZTE Equipment for 5G
The government argues that 5G blurs the line between the core network and the edge network, making security more challenging.
Research: Facebook’s Edge Fabric
The Internet has changed dramatically over the last ten years; more than 70% of the traffic over the Internet is now served by ten Autonomous Systems (AS’), causing the physical topology of the Internet to be reshaped into more of a hub-and-spoke design, rather than the more familiar scale-free design (I discussed this in a post over at CircleID in the recent past, and others have discussed this as well). While this reshaping might be seen as a success in delivering video content to most Internet users by shortening the delivery route between the server and the user, the authors of the paper in review today argue this is not enough.
Brandon Schlinker, Hyojeong Kim, Timothy Cui, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Italo Cunha, James Quinn, Saif Hasan, Petr Lapukhov, and Hongyi Zeng. 2017. Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World. In Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 418-431. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3098822.3098853
Why is this not enough? The authors point to two problems in the routing protocol tying the Internet together: BGP. First, they state that BGP is not Continue reading
Quantum Simulation Work Blazes Trail for Hybrid Systems
The relationship between quantum computers and supercomputing will be more complementary than competitive in the coming years with quantum processors being the offload engines for some key workloads in materials science and other areas. …
Quantum Simulation Work Blazes Trail for Hybrid Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Jeff McElfresh Will Oversee AT&T’s 5G Network Transition
McElfresh will replace Melissa Arnoldi as the president of AT&T Technology and Operations. He’s a 21-year veteran of AT&T.
IPv6 Buzz 007: Measuring And Managing IPv6
Listen to the latest IPv6 Buzz podcast as we discuss the challenge of measuring and managing IPv6 deployments and learn how monitoring can optimize performance. Our guest is Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu, IPv6 expert and author.IPv6 Buzz 007: Measuring And Managing IPv6
Listen to the latest IPv6 Buzz podcast as we discuss the challenge of measuring and managing IPv6 deployments and learn how monitoring can optimize performance. Our guest is Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu, IPv6 expert and author.
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Mirantis CEO: ‘Choose Your Cloud’ Using Open Source
The open source private cloud platform allows users to change their infrastructure to best suit individual workloads.
The “Depend on Docker” Philosophy at Baker Hughes, a GE Company
BHGE is the world’s leading full stream Oil & Gas company on a mission to find better ways to deliver energy to the world. BHGE Digital develops enterprise grade cloud-first SaaS solutions to improve efficiency and reduce non-productive time for the Oil & Gas industry.
In our group, we have developed an analytics-driven product portfolio to enable company-wide digital transformation for our customers. Challenges ranging from predicting the failures of mission-critical industrial assets such as gas turbines to optimizing the conditions of an Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) to increase production, which require building and maintaining sophisticated analytics at scale.
The past few years have taught us this: where there is a whale, there is a way!
We were happy to share our story at DockerCon recently, and wanted to share it here on the Docker blog as well. You can watch the session here:
We face two major challenges in delivering advanced analytics:
- Data silos
We must handle a multitude of data sources that range from disconnected historical datasets to high speed sensor streams. Industrial data volumes and velocities dwarf even the largest ERP implementations as shown below.
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Announcing the Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll Methodology for 2018
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is an Internet Society initiative that aims to enhance online trust, user empowerment, and innovation through convening multistakeholder initiatives and developing and promoting best practices, ethical privacy practices, and data stewardship. One of OTA’s major activities is the Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll, which promotes responsible online privacy and data security practices and recognizes leaders in the public and private sectors who have embraced them. This morning, we released the methodology we’ll use for this year’s audit.
The report will analyze more than 1,000 websites on consumer protection, site security, and responsible privacy practices. Based on a composite weighted analysis, sites that score 80 percent or better overall, without failing in any one category, will be recognized in the Honor Roll.
Building largely on past criteria, this year’s updates include GDPR compliance and other security and privacy standards and practices, as well as adding a healthcare sector. From the press release:
Key changes to this year’s Audit include:
- Consumer Protection (email authentication, domain security and anti-phishing technologies) – more granular assessment of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) support, and increased weight for use of opportunistic Transport Layer Security (TLS), which Continue reading
3 Strategies to Fight Network Siloes
The problems created by old hub-and-spoke network architectures are happening again with the advent of the cloud. Following these strategies can avoid building a new set of siloes.
AfPIF 2018 Day Two: Connecting Cape Town to Cairo
Africa’s dream of Cape Town to Cairo fiber connectivity has moved closer, with Liquid Telecom announcing that it has made considerable progress is signing agreements with regulatory authorities and partners within the route.
Liquid Telecom has an ambitious plan of reducing latencies in connectivity between Cape Town and Cairo. Currently, traffic is routed through Europe, with latencies of 209ms, and it will be reduced to 97ms.
In his keynote speech at the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), Ben Roberts, Liquid CTO, said that the project will be implemented through existing Liquid infrastructure within different countries, partnership with existing infrastructure providers, and regulators. The project is expected to be done by 2020 and to eventually connect East and West Africa.
Liquid is expecting the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, signed and ratified recently, to drive city-to-city interconnectivity, as more countries look for ways to trade with each other and eventually exchange Internet traffic. The goal to increase intra-Africa broadband traffic.
Roberts projects the infrastructure currently being set up will be highly used by the youth, who have grown up online – through education, social media, and gaming applications. The Internet of Things is expected to grow; currently most Continue reading