Forget the plus-sized screen, the regular iPhone is the best fit

Like a lot of people, I found myself getting a sore neck and eyes from squinting at a smartphone screen for too long. It’s not that the iPhone 6 has a small screen relative to the market, it’s just that prolonged staring at the screen really isn’t a good idea to anyone but a chiropractor looking to boost his business. I had fiddled with the iPhone 6s Plus in the local Best Buy, and I liked what I saw. Also, it didn’t feel too cumbersome in my hand, so I decided to go for it. The iPhone 7 was out. The removal of the headphone jack was a deal-breaker for me. + Also on Network World: One-third of iPhones are the Plus model + I purchased a used iPhone 6 Plus through Glyde, which acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of devices like smartphones, tablets and laptops. Swapping phones was easy in my situation. I am with AT&T, which uses a SIM chip. All I had to do was pop the chip out of the old phone and insert it in the new one, and I had service. I restored the app and settings backup from Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: SD-WANs lost my voice

If there’s one application that brings chills to the hearts of SD-WAN implementers it’s providing a predictable real-time voice service. So let’s talk about how SD-WANs might help.The problem with voice We need to separate from the theory of voice and the reality of voice. The theory goes something like this. The Internet is fine for email and web browsing. It’s even pretty good for personal voice. But if I want to deliver a voice service, day-in-day out without a hiccup, then I run into a problem. Voice is a real-time protocol with strict tolerances around latency, loss and jitter. Exceed those tolerances and symptoms common to a poor voice service set in. Increased delays from traffic routing or lost packets disrupt voice calls. Outages and brownouts can cause calls to drop.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: SD-WANs lost my voice

If there’s one application that brings chills to the hearts of SD-WAN implementers it’s providing a predictable real-time voice service. So let’s talk about how SD-WANs might help.The problem with voice We need to separate from the theory of voice and the reality of voice. The theory goes something like this. The Internet is fine for email and web browsing. It’s even pretty good for personal voice. But if I want to deliver a voice service, day-in-day out without a hiccup, then I run into a problem. Voice is a real-time protocol with strict tolerances around latency, loss and jitter. Exceed those tolerances and symptoms common to a poor voice service set in. Increased delays from traffic routing or lost packets disrupt voice calls. Outages and brownouts can cause calls to drop.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

58% off RAVPower Portable Multi-Functional Power Bank with 9000mAh Built-in Apple Lightning Connector and AC Plug – Deal Alert

The RAVPower Savior 9000mAh portable charger has both a built built-in Apple Lightning Connector and a foldable two prong wall plug so you don't need to bring an extra cable to charge your Apple Device.  The additional USB output is 1A & Lightning output is 2.4A - this means you can have incredible charging speeds up to 3.4A To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Do you know where your data is?

Modern businesses must be agile, flexible and innovative. Business leaders are always looking for the next opportunity and speed is of the essence. Whether they’re looking to scale up quickly for a new project, or seeking to harness the benefits of the latest and greatest technology, it’s often necessary to go beyond company walls and sign up with a vendor for new software or services.You may have spent considerable resources to ensure that your security is strong, but what about your third-party vendors? We’ve discussed how cybersecurity is only as strong the weakest link before, but sometimes that weak link is a partner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Do you know where your data is?

Modern businesses must be agile, flexible and innovative. Business leaders are always looking for the next opportunity and speed is of the essence. Whether they’re looking to scale up quickly for a new project, or seeking to harness the benefits of the latest and greatest technology, it’s often necessary to go beyond company walls and sign up with a vendor for new software or services.You may have spent considerable resources to ensure that your security is strong, but what about your third-party vendors? We’ve discussed how cybersecurity is only as strong the weakest link before, but sometimes that weak link is a partner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

35% off Anker Phone Camera Lens Kit With Fisheye, 0.65x Wide Angle, 10x Macro – Deal Alert

This multi-functional camera lens kit works on most standard sized smartphones including the iPhone 7 (excluding Plus), and brings even more life to your photos with 180-degree fisheye, 0.65x wide angle and 10x macro lenses. It currently averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, and its list price of $20 has been reduced 35% to just $13. See the lens kit now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network Slices

There has been a lot of chatter recently in the 5G wireless world about network slices. A draft was recently published in the IETF on network slices—draft-gdmb-netslices-intro-and-ps-02. But what, precisely, is a network slice?

Perhaps it is better to begin with a concept most network engineers already know (and love)—a virtual topology. A virtual topology is a set of links, with some subset of connected devices (either virtual or real), that act as a subset of the network. Isn’t such a subset of the network a “slice” if you look at it from a different angle? To ask the question in a different way: how are network slices different from virtual network overlays?

To begin, consider the control plane. In the world of virtual topologies, there is generally one control plane that provides reachability, as well as sorting reachability into each virtual topology. For instance, BGP carries a route target and a route discriminator to indicate which virtual topology any particular destination belongs to. A network slice, by contrast, actually has multiple control planes—one for each slice. There will still be one “supervisor control plane,” of course, much like there is a hypervisor that manages the resources of each Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: 6 ways to manage your data – and team

Decision making comes with its challenges as it’s part of a process of nurturing a variety of perspectives, usually by encouraging discussion and debate. However, when competing points of view are left unmanaged, it can easily – and without warning – digress into an unhealthy conflict. Proponents are often passionate about their views and become blind to certain, inconvenient, facts.Today, data has become a reliable arbiter for such debates. This is why business intelligence (BI) has emerged as crucial to the decision making process. BI provides actionable insights that are based on numbers. A growing number of organizations are recognizing its value. In 2016, 73 percent of businesses increased their analytics capabilities.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Educating the public about security – are we doing it all wrong?

In 2016 consumers were exposed to a larger number of high profile data breaches than any year previously. According to the Breach Level Index, 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 million data records being compromised worldwide, an increase of 86% compared to 2015. Identity theft was the leading type of data breach last year, accounting for 59% of all data breaches. These numbers have helped raise public awareness around the serious threats to personal data that exist in the modern era, and awareness is also growing for some of the solutions that businesses and individuals can use to minimize the risks from data breaches. But is it enough?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Educating the public about security – are we doing it all wrong?

In 2016 consumers were exposed to a larger number of high profile data breaches than any year previously. According to the Breach Level Index, 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 million data records being compromised worldwide, an increase of 86% compared to 2015. Identity theft was the leading type of data breach last year, accounting for 59% of all data breaches. These numbers have helped raise public awareness around the serious threats to personal data that exist in the modern era, and awareness is also growing for some of the solutions that businesses and individuals can use to minimize the risks from data breaches. But is it enough?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How security executives can feel comfortable in the boardroom and server room

With information security being a major concern at all companies, successful security executives need to be equally comfortable in the boardroom and the server room. While being well-versed in traditional security duties, like developing incident response plans and knowing what technology will keep the bad guys at bay, is still essential, CISOs and CSOs also need to know how security factors into the business’ operations.Three skills that are essential for future leaders to master are being able to clearly articulate the importance of security to non-technical executives, show how security can help a company achieve its business goals and balance security with innovation. These skills are consistently mentioned by CEOs and CSOs when we’re discussing how business and security leaders can work better together.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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