Nitel goes global with international network-as-a-service plans

Nitel’s newest service offering takes the company’s existing network-as-a-service out of North America and into the international market, as the company announces the availability of its SASE capabilities and NaaS to 34 global regions.Nitel’s key offering is a full as-a-service network, leveraging relationships with data carriers — wired or wireless — at the local level to deliver basic connectivity, and then fold that into a robust enterprise networking suite, complete with SASE and private networking. The idea is to provide a more or less out-of-the-box network product that allows small and medium-size companies to hand the vast majority of their connectivity issues off to Nitel, which manages configuration and provisioning. In addition, Nitel provides SASE-standard security features like antimalware sandboxing, zero trust network access, data loss prevention and content filtering.To read this article in full, please click here

Measuring the Internet’s pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar

Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar

In 2022, we launched the Radar Domain Rankings, with top lists of the most popular domains based on how people use the Internet globally. The lists are calculated using a machine learning model that uses aggregated 1.1.1.1 resolver data that is anonymized in accordance with our privacy commitments. While the top 100 list is updated daily for each location, typically the first results of that list are stable over time, with the big names such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and TikTok leading. Additionally, these global big names appear for the majority of locations.

Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists. The new data shows which domains are currently experiencing an increase in popularity. Hence, while with the top popular domains we aim to show domains of broad appeal and of interest to many Internet users, with the trending domains we want to show domains that are generating a surge in interest.

Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar

When we started looking at the best way to generate a list of trending domains, we needed to answer the following questions:

Worth Reading: MP-TCP in Hybrid Access Networks

Wouldn’t it be nice if your home router (CPE) could use DSL (or slow-speed fibre) and LTE connection at the same time? Even better: run a single TCP session over both links? The answer to both questions is YES, of course it could do that, if only your service provider would be interested in giving you that option.

We solved similar problems with multilink PPP in the networking antiquity, today you could use a CPE with an MP-TCP proxy combined with a Hybrid Access Gateway in the service provider network. For more details, read the excellent Increasing broadband reach with Hybrid Access Networks article by prof. Olivier Bonaventure and his team.

Worth Reading: MP-TCP in Hybrid Access Networks

Wouldn’t it be nice if your home router (CPE) could use DSL (or slow-speed fibre) and LTE connection at the same time? Even better: run a single TCP session over both links? The answer to both questions is YES, of course it could do that, if only your service provider would be interested in giving you that option.

We solved similar problems with multilink PPP in the networking antiquity, today you could use a CPE with an MP-TCP proxy combined with a Hybrid Access Gateway in the service provider network. For more details, read the excellent Increasing broadband reach with Hybrid Access Networks article by prof. Olivier Bonaventure and his team.

Data centers grapple with staffing shortages, pressure to reduce energy use

Reducing energy use and keeping qualified staff are top of mind for data center operators, according to Uptime Institute’s latest annual global data center survey.“Digital infrastructure managers are now most concerned with improving energy performance and dealing with staffing shortfalls, while government regulations aimed at improving data center sustainability and visibility are beginning to require attention, investment, and action,” said Andy Lawrence, executive director, Uptime Intelligence.To read this article in full, please click here

Data centers grapple with staffing shortages, pressure to reduce energy use

Reducing energy use and keeping qualified staff are top of mind for data center operators, according to Uptime Institute’s latest annual global data center survey.“Digital infrastructure managers are now most concerned with improving energy performance and dealing with staffing shortfalls, while government regulations aimed at improving data center sustainability and visibility are beginning to require attention, investment, and action,” said Andy Lawrence, executive director, Uptime Intelligence.To read this article in full, please click here

The unreasonable effectiveness of radio

Light and radio transmissions are the same thing, just using different frequencies.

How is it reasonable that I can transmit with a radio using the energy of a low energy light bulb (10 watts), and easily chat with someone 1800km away?

Even if you imagine a perfectly dark world, where the only light bulb is a 10W bulb in Sweden; How is it even possible that this could be seen in Italy? It’s not even a spotlight! It’s only vaguely aimed away from east-west, in favour of up, north, and south.

My little light bulb (radio) could be seen in (approximately) all of Europe. ~750 million people potentially could have received it at the same time. With 10 watts.

“Blink blink” — All of Europe can see my little lightbulb.

And this isn’t some specialized super duper antenna, nor was it set up by an expert, fine tuning everything. I just put up the antenna in a PVC pipe and connected it. We can’t even credit fancy computers digging signals out of the noise. This was not FT8, this was PSK31. I’m sure voice would also have worked.

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Lenovo all-flash arrays aimed at optimizing AI workloads

AI is nothing without lots of data, so high-speed, high-capacity storage is a must. Lenovo is the latest vendor to come out with new storage systems that are optimized for read-intensive enterprise AI workloads and large dataset workloads.Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DG enterprise storage arrays use all-flash storage and quad-level cell (QLC) architecture, the densest flash storage available. They’re capable of up to six times faster performance and up to 50% less cost compared to HDD arrays, Lenovo asserts. Its ThinkSystem DM3010H array is aimed at SMB customers and designed to offer better scalability and flexibility for a wide range of workloads, including file services, virtualization, backup and archive and other I/O applications, according to Lenovo.To read this article in full, please click here

Lenovo all-flash arrays aimed at optimizing AI workloads

AI is nothing without lots of data, so high-speed, high-capacity storage is a must. Lenovo is the latest vendor to come out with new storage systems that are optimized for read-intensive enterprise AI workloads and large dataset workloads.Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DG enterprise storage arrays use all-flash storage and quad-level cell (QLC) architecture, the densest flash storage available. They’re capable of up to six times faster performance and up to 50% less cost compared to HDD arrays, Lenovo asserts. Its ThinkSystem DM3010H array is aimed at SMB customers and designed to offer better scalability and flexibility for a wide range of workloads, including file services, virtualization, backup and archive and other I/O applications, according to Lenovo.To read this article in full, please click here

Heavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops & Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, we look at how sponsor ZPE Systems is rethinking Out-Of-Band management for automated, NetOps-driven infrastructure. This includes tasks like device staging, deployments, upgrades, and more. And you don’t just have to take ZPE’s word for it; we also talk to a customer who’s using the products to run a retail business with a lean networking team that supports more than fifty sites.

Heavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops & Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, we look at how sponsor ZPE Systems is rethinking Out-Of-Band management for automated, NetOps-driven infrastructure. This includes tasks like device staging, deployments, upgrades, and more. And you don’t just have to take ZPE’s word for it; we also talk to a customer who’s using the products to run a retail business with a lean networking team that supports more than fifty sites.

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Don’t Let the Cybersecurity Trust Mark Become Like Food Labeling

I got several press releases this week talking about the newest program from the US Federal government for cybersecurity labeling. This program is something designed to help consumers understand how secure IoT devices are and the challenges that can be faced trying to keep your network secure from the large number of smart devices that are being implemented today. Consumer Reports has been pushing for something like this for a while and lauded the move with some caution. I’m going to take it a little further. We need to be very careful about this so it doesn’t become as worthless as the nutrition labels mandated by the government.

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Having labels is certainly better than not having them. Knowing how much sugar a sports drink has is way more helpful than when I was growing up and we had to guess. Knowing where to find that info on a package means I’m not having to go find it somewhere on the Internet1. However, all is not sunshine and roses. That’s because of the way that companies choose to fudge their numbers.

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AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business

Given the exorbitant demand for compute and networking for running Ai workloads and the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in making the compute engine chips and providing the complex packaging for them, you would think that the world’s largest foundry would be making money hands over fist in the second quarter.

The post AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business first appeared on The Next Platform.

AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Hedge 187: Buffer Bloat with Bjørn T

Buffer bloat causes permanent delay at multiple points along the path between a server and client—but it is hard to measure and resolve. Bjørn Teigen joins Tom and Russ on this episode of the Hedge to discuss the problem, solutions based in routers, and research into how to solve the problem at the host. You can find Bjørn’s recent paper in this area here, and he blogs here.

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Migration Coordinator – In Place Migration Modes

In the first part of this blog series, we took a high level view of all the modes that are available with Migration Coordinator, a fully GSS supported tool built into NSX that enables migrating from NSX from vSphere to NSX (NSX-T).

The second blog in this series, will take a closer look at the available options for in-place migrations, along with the pros and cons of each approach.

NSX for vSphere: Fixed Topology

This mode was the very first mode introduced with migration coordinator in the NSX 2.4 release. This mode supports migrating configuration and workloads to NSX, using the same hosts that are running NSX for vSphere. It only needs extra capacity to run the NSX appliances such as the Managers and Edges.

Locating the mode: Marked in red below.

 

NSX Prep

  1. Installation: NSX manager and Edges
  2. Configuration: None

Pros:

  1. Workload Migration: Built in
  2. Bridging: Built in

Cons:

  1. Customization options: None
  2. Timing workload migration: No control
  3. Supported topologies: Only 5

Distributed Firewall, Host and Workload

This mode is useful when the requirement is to migrate only Distributed Firewall configuration.

Locating the mode

This mode is under the “Advanced Migration Modes” marked in red below.

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Cisco, Arista, HPE, Intel lead consortium to supersize Ethernet for AI infrastructures

AI workloads are expected to put unprecedented performance and capacity demands on networks, and a handful of networking vendors have teamed up to enhance today’s Ethernet technology in order to handle the scale and speed required by AI.AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft announced the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group hosted by the Linux Foundation that’s working to develop physical, link, transport and software layer Ethernet advances.The industry celebrated Ethernet’s 50th anniversary this year. The hallmark of Ethernet has been its flexibility and adaptability, and the venerable technology will undoubtedly play a critical role when it comes to supporting AI infrastructures. But there are concerns that today’s traditional network interconnects cannot provide the required performance, scale and bandwidth to keep up with AI demands, and the consortium aims to address those concerns.To read this article in full, please click here