IPv6, Large UDP Packets and the DNS
It would be useful to understand the larger picture of IPv6 Extension Header drop rate. What would be interesting to measure is the packet drop rate when sending fragmented packets to IPv6 end hosts.IBM SD-Storage Targets Data Protection for Virtual Machines
IBM invested $1 billion in its SD-storage portfolio.
AfPIF 2017 Kicks Off In Abidjan
The annual Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) kicked off at the Azalai Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The first day is known as “Peering Coordinators Day” where peering managers from various networks, operators, and policy makers meet and deliberate on the various ways to exchange content locally, lower the cost of connectivity, and increase the number of internet users in the region. In the course of the three days, participants get a chance to discuss, exchange ideas, and agree to exchange content, known as peering. Most peering agreements are through the handshake and AfPIF encourages participants to take advantage of the various social events and share contacts. There is a session at the beginning and end of every day, where participant share their AS numbers, peering policy, and contacts, allowing those willing to interconnect to reach out. The first session explored the general data and interconnection landscape; Telegeography presented the latest statistics, which is derived from its annual survey. Statistics show that the growth of submarine cables has led to growth in Internet bandwidth and local content. Five years ago, International transit was growing at 40 per cent, but this year, the growth is at 30 per cent, owing Continue reading
Going Global – a Localization Case Study at Cloudflare
Today Cloudflare serves nearly 10% of all global internet requests and more than 80% of our customers are based outside of the United States. Cloudflare is rapidly growing and there is nothing more important to us than being able to better serve our users across the world beyond our global offices in San Francisco, Austin, Champaign, Washington D.C., New York, London, and Singapore.
Earlier this year, we launched a team to focus on global expansion and growth. In June, we presented our agile global market expansion experiment framework at LocWorld Barcelona and wanted to report back on how things were going.
Getting started
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart" – Nelson Mandela
At Cloudflare, we are motivated by our users from all around the world. Of our top 15 countries by traffic volume, 10 have official languages other than English. As a large part of our users do not speak our primary language of business, our priority is to reach and engage with these users in their native languages through localization.
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ARM Servers: Qualcomm Is Now A Contender
Many have tried to wrench the door of the datacenter open with ARM processors, but Qualcomm, which knows a thing or two about creating and selling chips for smartphones and other client devices, has perhaps the best chance of actually selling ARM chips in volume inside of servers.
The combination of a rich and eager target market with a good product design tailored for that market and enough financial strength and stability to ensure many generations of development are what are necessary to break into the datacenter, and the “Falkor” cores that were unveiled this week at Hot Chips were …
ARM Servers: Qualcomm Is Now A Contender was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IGF-USA: Promoting a More Inclusive Internet
The IGF-USA took place in Washington D.C on July 24, 2017. During the event, the panel "Promoting a More Inclusive Internet" looked at current barriers to an inclusive Internet and explored how access could be expanded to underserved areas and to underrepresented communities. Moderated by Dr. Brandie Nonnecke, Research & Development Manager for CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at the University of California-Berkeley and Chair of the San Francisco-Bay Area Internet Society Chapter Working Group on Internet Governance, the panel brought together several experts on access provision, each with many years experience of connecting the unconnected in the USA and overseas.
Decentralized Approach
Susannah Gray
Worth Reading: Testing in Production
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Ukraine Leaks Russian Social Media Ban
Another development in the long-running conflict between Ukraine and Russia occurred in May of this year when Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko enacted a ban on Russia’s four most prominent internet companies in the name of national security. The ban included the two most widely used social media websites, VKontakte (often referred to as the “Russian Facebook“) and Odnoklassniki (“Classmates” in Russian), as well as email service provider Mail.ru and Russian search engine Yandex.
These websites have such a significant Ukrainian user base that Mail.ru says it expects to lose $13 million this year as a result of the ban and Yandex is appealing the ban through Ukraine’s Supreme Administrative Court.
And now it appears that this ban has spilled out into the global routing table. On 27 July 2017, Ukrainian ISP UARNet (AS3255) began announcing several new BGP routes that were hijacks of the IP address space of these Russian internet companies. On this day, AS3255 briefly announced more-specific hijacks of each of these four Russian internet companies including 94.100.180.0/24 (Mail.ru), 87.250.250.0/23 (Yandex), 87.240.165.0/24 (Vkontakte) and 217.20.159.0/24 (Odnoklassniki). While Continue reading
NeuVector Takes Stab at Securing VMware Container Environment
Company's security focus is on container runtime environments.
Forward Networks Taps Freemium Model, Raises $16M in Series B
Forward Essentials is available in beta now and will be generally available in the fourth quarter.
SnapRoute Integrates its FlexSwitch with Canonical’s Ubuntu
The joint software stack powers white-box switches.
History of Networking: BGP Optimizations with Daniel Walton
On this edition of the History of Networking, we chatted with Daniel Walton at Cumulus about his work in optimizing BGP for scale in the early and mid-1990’s. This video was recorded, and is hosted, by the Network Collective—many thanks for the work they are doing!
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Google Cloud Platform to Trial Different Performance Tiers
Current service is now dubbed Premium Tier.
First In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems
Propping up a successful silicon startup is no simple feat, but venture-backed Wave Computing has managed to hold its own in the small but critical AI training chip market–so far.
Seven years after its founding and the company’s early access program for beta machines based on its novel DPU manycore architecture is now open, which is prompting Wave to be more forthcoming about the system and chip architecture for deep learning-focused dataflow architecture.
Dr. Chris Nicol, Wave Computing CTO and lead architect of the Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) admitted to the crowd at Hot Chips this week that maintaining funding …
First In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Top Networking Researcher Looks to a Programmable Future
Jennifer Rexford of Princeton talks about how making the network more programmable can improve security and performance.
China Telecom Is Building a MEC Network for a Refinery
Huawei's MEC@CloudEdge technology uses a cloud-native architecture.