5G Rollout: A Realistic View
There's been a lot of hype about what 5G will bring, but we're years away from highly immersive experiences. Here's what to expect.
Automation Example: Deploy MPLS/VPN Services
Steve Krause created a full-blown network services deployment solution, including post-deployment validation of OSPF and BGP routing, while attending Building Network Automation Solutions online course (I prefer course attendees working on real-life problems instead of artificial ones).
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Re-coding Black Mirror, Part V
This is the final part of our tour through the papers from the Re-coding Black Mirror workshop exploring future technology scenarios and their social and ethical implications.
- Towards trust-based decentralized ad-hoc social networks Koidl
- MMM: May I mine your mind? Sempreboni and Viganò
(If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, all of the papers in this workshop can be accessed either by following the links above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page).
Towards trust-based decentralized ad-hoc social networks
Koidl argues that we have ‘crisis of trust’ in social media caused which manifests in filter bubbles, fake news, and echo chambers.
- “Filter bubbles are the result of engagement-based content filtering. The underlying principle is to show the user content that relates to the content the user has previously engaged on. The result is a content stream that lacks diversification of topics and opinions.”
- “Echo chambers are the result of content recommendations that are based on interests of friends and peers. This results in a content feed that is strongly biased towards grouped opinion (e.g. Group Think).”
- “Fake news, and related expressions of the same, such as alternative facts, is Continue reading
House Committee Snubs Trump’s Request to Save ZTE
Trump today said his support of ZTE came directly from a request made by Chinese President Xi.
Kubernetes’ Future Is More Jazz Improv Than Just Orchestration
Heptio CTO Joe Beda explained that orchestration infers a plan from the start, while Kubernetes is more about not knowing what's going to emerge.
Cisco’s New Security Guru Talks About How to Kill Complexity in 3 Steps
Gee Rittenhouse says security needs to be simpler. The complexity that today's security professionals deal with is overwhelming.
AT&T, Shaw, and China Mobile Outline 5G Trial Successes and Failures
From foliage that blocks antennas to bandwidth speeds that vary dramatically, global operators open up about the good, bad, and ugly of their 5G trials.
Cisco’s Catalyst 9K Switch Propels the Company’s Finances
The company now counts over 5,800 Catalyst 9000 customers, up from 3,100 last quarter.
Oracle Beefs Up Its Machine Learning With DataScience.com Acquisition
Oracle will integrate the DataScience.com cloud workspace platform for data science into its Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
5 Network automation tips and tricks for NetOps
Despite what some people say, automation is not for the lazy. This opinion probably comes from the fact that the whole point of automation is to reduce repetitive tasks and make your life easier. Indeed automation can do just that, as well as giving you back hours each week for other tasks.
But getting your automation off the ground to begin with can be a challenge. It’s not as if you just decide, “Hey, we’re going to automate our network now!” and then you follow a foolproof, well-defined process to implement network automation across the board. You have to make many decisions that require long discussions, and necessitate ambitious and careful thinking about how you’re going to automate.
Just as with anything else in the IT world, there are no one-size-fits-all solutions, and no “best practices” that apply to every situation. But there are some common principles and crucial decision points that do apply to all automation endeavors.
In this post, I’ll give you five network automation tips and tricks to get clarity around your automation decisions and reduce any friction that may be inhibiting (further) adoption of network automation.
1. Choose whether you want flexibility or simplicity
Automating Continue reading
Sovereignty Is More Than a Designation, It Is a Responsibility
The Internet can provide access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunity, but many indigenous communities face challenges to Internet access and inclusion. Brian Tagaban, Director of Government Policy at Sacred Wind Communications and former executive director of the Navajo Nation Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, is at RightsCon this week – the world’s leading conference on human rights in the digital age – to discuss the digital divide in indigenous communities in North America. He’s there as an Internet Society fellow and joined by other fellows Bill Murdoch, an IT specialist at the Manitoba First Nation School System and the First Nations Health & Social Secretariat of Manitoba, and Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit in Nunavut, Canada.
We spoke to Tagaban at the first Indigenous Connectivity Summit. The event was the start of a critical conversation about how indigenous communities can connect themselves to the Internet on their own terms. He detailed the time, diligence, and effort required to build a regulatory framework, and hoped that other Summit participants could “see how things are possible, celebrate success stories, share those success stories so that they can be built upon, and gain exposure to the political circumstances, social circumstances, geographic Continue reading
Forging Composable Infrastructure For Memory-Centric Systems
For years, enterprises have wanted to pool and then carve up the myriad resources of the datacenter to enable them to more efficiently run their workloads, reduce power consumption, and improve utilization rates. It takes what seems like an endless series of technologies advances to move towards this goal. But, ever so slowly, we are getting there.
Virtualization that started in the servers flowed into the storage realm and eventually into the network, and converged systems mashing up virtual compute and virtual networking soon begat hyperconverged infrastructure, which added in virtual storage – one of the fastest growing segments …
Forging Composable Infrastructure For Memory-Centric Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.