Telia Plots 5G Launch in Stockholm and Tallinn by 2018
The current 5G tests are using pre-standardized gear.
Fabric versus Network: What’s the Difference?
We often hear about fabrics, and we often hear about networks—but on paper, an in practice, they often seem to be the same thing. Leaving aside the many realms of vendor hype, what’s really the difference? Poking around on the ‘net, I came across a couple of definitions that seemed useful, at least at first blush. For instance, SDN Search gives provides the following insight—
The word fabric is used as a metaphor to illustrate the idea that if someone were to document network components and their relationships on paper, the lines would weave back and forth so densely that the diagram would resemble a woven piece of cloth.
While this is interesting, it gives us more of a “on the paper” answer than what might be called a functional view. The entry at Wikipedia is more operationally based—
Switched Fabric or switching fabric is a network topology in which network nodes interconnect via one or more network switches (particularly crossbar switches). Because a switched fabric network spreads network traffic across multiple physical links, it yields higher total throughput than broadcast networks, such as early Ethernet.
Greg has an interesting (though older) post up on the topic, Continue reading
Datanet: a New CRDT Database that Let’s You Do Bad Bad Things to Distributed Data
We've had databases targeting consistency. These are your typical RDBMSs. We've had databases targeting availability. These are your typical NoSQL databases.
If you're using your CAP decoder ring you know what's next...what databases do we have that target making concurrency a first class feature? That promise to thrive and continue to function when network partitions occur?
No many, but we have a brand new concurrency oriented database: Datanet - a P2P replication system that utilizes CRDT algorithms to allow multiple concurrent actors to modify data and then automatically & sensibly resolve modification conflicts.
Datanet is the creation of Russell Sullivan. Russell spent over three years hidden away in his mad scientist layer researching, thinking, coding, refining, and testing Datanet. You may remember Russell. He has been involved with several articles on HighScalability and he wrote AlchemyDB, a NoSQL database, which was acquired by Aerospike.
So Russell has a feel for what's next. When he built AlchemyDB he was way ahead of the pack and now he thinks practical, programmer friendly CRDTs are what's next. Why?
Concurrency and data locality. To quote Russell:
Datanet lets you ship data to the spot where the action is happening. When the action happens it Continue reading
5G – Enabling the Move from Connectivity to Digital Services
The 5G architecture is also introducing a re-architecture of the core, incorporating new technologies and approaches.
OpenG Rap: Unlicensed to Ill
Indoor cell signal feels so wack! Do not worry though, MC Ruckus and the Dawgs (aka Ruckus OpenG engineers) will set you straight with this funky gold-teeth-laden introduction to new technology. We got your back, yo! #OpenG #WhatDidIJustWatch Read more...Worth Reading: Stop Trying to Deter Cyber Criminals
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