One of the perks of my online courses is the lifetime access to course Slack team, and you’d amazed by the variety of questions asked there. Not so long ago I got one on BGP timers:
The BGP timers I’m using in my network are 5 and 15 seconds, and I am not sure if it's a good practice to reduce them even more.
You should always ask yourself this set of questions before tweaking a nerd knob:
Read more ...Who will be inducted into the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame? Who will be recognized for their contributions to the Internet? Find out today at 5:30pm PDT (00:30 UTC) through live video streams. There are multiple options to watch:
The IHOF award ceremony will be recorded and available for later viewing on Livestream, YouTube and Facebook.
Additionally, there is a live transcription service:
You can also follow IHOF activity on Twitter via the @Internet_HOF account and #IHOF2017 hashtag.
The IHOF awards ceremony begins 24 hours of our InterCommunity 2017 event. View the ICOMM 2017 schedule to see what will be happening over the time.
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Intel is not the only system maker that is looking to converge its processor lines to make life a bit simpler for itself and for its customers as well as to save some money on engineering work. Oracle has just announced its Sparc M8 processor, and while this is an interesting chip, what is also interesting is that a Sparc T8 companion processor aimed at entry and midrange systems was not already introduced and does not appear to be in the works.
There is plenty a little weird here. The new Sparc T8 systems are, in fact, going to be …
Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Alibaba and Tencent have integrated the open source technology into their clouds.
She joins former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg who also moved to Verizon.
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The infrastructure vendor knows it needs to expand its customer base outside of CSPs.
This is the fundamental question that we are posing through the report just launched today, our 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future.
The report is a window into the diverse views and perspectives of a global community that cares deeply about how the Internet will evolve and impact humanity over the next 5-7 years. We couldn’t know what we would find when we embarked on the journey to map what stakeholders believe could shape the future of the Internet, nor can we truly know what will happen to the Internet, but we do now have a sense of what we need to think about today to help shape the Internet of tomorrow. The report reflects the views and aspirations of our community as well as some of the most pressing challenges facing the future of this great innovation.
What have we learned? We’ve learned that our community remains confident that the core Internet values that gave rise to the Internet remain valid. We also heard very strong worries that the user-centric model of the Internet is under extraordinary pressure from governments, from technology giants, and even from the technology itself. There is a sense that there Continue reading
The new facility offers direct connection between customers in seven other data centers via dark fiber links.
This marks the end of Chambers’ era at Cisco.
451 Research finds companies maintaining data center capacity in the cloud era, but facing skills shortage.
As 5G moves closer to reality, vendors are shifting their focus to network slicing.
In this short video I work through two kinds of design, or two different ways of designing a network. Which kind of designer are you? Do you see one as better than the other? Which would you prefer to do, are you right now?
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