I first met Pluribus Networks 2.5 years ago during their Networking Field Day 9 presentation, which turned controversial enough that I was advised not to wear the same sweater during NFD16 to avoid jinxing another presentation (I also admit to be a bit biased in those days based on marketing deja-moo from a Pluribus sales guy I’d been exposed to during a customer engagement).
Pluribus NFD16 presentations were better; here’s what I got from them:
Read more ...One week from today, we’ll be at ION Belgrade! Our last event of the year take place on Thursday, 23 November 2017, alongside the 3rd Republic of Serbia Network Operators’ Group (RSNOG).
As always, ION Conferences bring network engineers and leading industry experts together to discuss emerging technologies and hot technology topics. Early adopters provide valuable insight into their own deployment experiences and bring participants up to speed on new standards emerging from the IETF.
Agenda
The half-day agenda and all our great speakers for ION Belgrade will make this a great event. Here’s a quick look at the day:
Registration
ION Belgrade registration is open! Learn more about our co-host on the RSNOG main page.
Webcast
RSNOG will be live streaming the ION in the morning and RSNOG in the afternoon. The stream will be embedded on the conference main page, right above the agenda, here (Serbian) and here (English).
IPv6 Tutorial
Jordi Palet Martinez will conduct an IPv6 training session the day before the ION. Continue reading
The landscape of HPC storage performance measurement is littered with unrealistic expectations. While there are seemingly endless strings of benchmarks aimed at providing balanced metrics, these far too often come from the vendors themselves.
What is needed is an independent set of measurements for supercomputing storage environments that takes into account all of the many nuances of HPC (versus enterprise) setups. Of course, building such a benchmark suite is no simple task—and ranking the results is not an easy exercise either because there are a great many dependencies; differences between individual machines, networks, memory and I/O tricks in software, and …
IO-500 Goes Where No HPC Storage Metric Has Gone Before was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Revenue from the company's core business of routers and switches declined 4 percent.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been investing heavily in quantum computing across the board. From testing new devices, programming models, and figuring out workflows that combine classical bits with qubits, this is where the DoE quantum investment seems to be centered.
Teams at Oak Ridge have access to the range of available quantum hardware devices—something that is now possible without having to own the difficult-to-manage quantum computer on sight. IBM’s Q processor is available through a web interface, as is D-Wave’s technology, which means researchers at ORNL can test their quantum applications on actual hardware. As we just …
Oak Ridge Lab’s Quantum Simulator Pulls HPC Future Closer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
So, you’ve done your research, learned about the many benefits of open networking, and decided you’re interested in building an open network. Congratulations, and welcome to the future of networking! You’ve made a great first step, but maybe you’re concerned about where to begin when it comes to vendors. A lot of network providers will claim that they have open solutions…but how can you be sure you’re choosing the best one? Or how can you determine if your vendor is truly an open solution? Fortunately, there are ways to gauge if your solution is as open as you need it to be. If you don’t want to get duped by phony open vendors, make sure to keep these three things in mind:
While there are common criteria and ideologies that tend to be associated with open networks, the definition of open networking is still very fluid and can mean different things to different vendors. So, when you’re trying to decide which vendor to go with, don’t let them off easy with simple answers. Ask specific questions about what exactly “open” means to them. Simplicity, flexibility, and modularity are Continue reading
In late June I wrote Security Here I Come! The transition wasn’t quite as fast as I thought it would be. 
But for the past couple months I’ve been able to really start digging in.
My initial response after watching just 2 CiscoLive VoDs? FEAR!
I really enjoyed these sessions a great deal!! They were the absolute perfect eye-opener to me!
Neil Lovering had the “Verizon Data Breach Report” in his slides (below).
Its funny because I have seen it before. To be completely honest I have seen it quite a number of times. But it was just something about how he presented it. He got past my not wanting to really “hear” about the risk and the danger and the reality of the security landscape in the world around us. I paused the VoD on this slide…. paused it and just really took the time to take it all in.
My reaction to this slide? Lol. This is when the fear began. Two simple facts on the Continue reading
In late June I wrote Security Here I Come! The transition wasn’t quite as fast as I thought it would be. 
But for the past couple months I’ve been able to really start digging in.
My initial response after watching just 2 CiscoLive VoDs? FEAR!
I really enjoyed these sessions a great deal!! They were the absolute perfect eye-opener to me!
Neil Lovering had the “Verizon Data Breach Report” in his slides (below).
Its funny because I have seen it before. To be completely honest I have seen it quite a number of times. But it was just something about how he presented it. He got past my not wanting to really “hear” about the risk and the danger and the reality of the security landscape in the world around us. I paused the VoD on this slide…. paused it and just really took the time to take it all in.
My reaction to this slide? Lol. This is when the fear began. Two simple facts on the Continue reading
Social media giant aims to advance the state of networking with Open/R.
The company has spent at least $6.6B on software-centric companies.
Both operators and the LSO APIs rely on ONAP.
The SD-WAN market is forecast to reach $3.3 billion in revenue by 2021.
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NANOG 75 Hackathon will take place February 17, 2019 and the NANOG 75 conference is February 18-20, 2019. Both will offer a great opportunity to network with colleagues, freshen-up skills, learn advanced networking techniques, and discover new network applications.
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In this Off The Cuff episode of Network Collective, recorded live at the SDxE conference in Austin, TX, the panel discusses the current state of network disaggregation, whitebox switching, and where the disaggregated model makes sense in your network.
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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