Lots of product news in this Network Break episode, including a new Arista switch, new Mellanox adapters, and a new home at the Linux Foundation for the OpenSwitch network OS
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Why switching to a cloud infrastructure may be the best call for a business
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SDN is "essential" to 5G, Sprint says.
This week’s post was written by Johnny Britt over at FreedomPay. I’ve edited in some small places to add more information, etc., but I think Johnny needs to start blogging…
Once you have determined that AS-Path prepending can no longer help us what are our next steps? Routing is based on the longest matched prefix, this is true when BGP routes are being compared as well regardless of the AS-PATH. So one option you have is to split your address space into longer advertised prefixes and advertise a slice to each of our upstream providers. In Fig. 1, AS65000 splits its /44 IPv6 into 2 prefixes and advertises them out to AS65001 and AS65004 respectively. This forces half of AS65000 subnet traffic to flow inbound from one specific provider and we can combine both this technique and AS-Path prepending to give us more load sharing capabilities.
Using longer prefixes to direct traffic to a more preferred inbound link can take us a long way in creating the desired inbound traffic pattern. Sometimes there are scenarios where you may need to direct traffic at a more granular level.
But what if you don’t have the ability to create longer prefixes Continue reading
This week HPE will host over 10,000 IT executives, architects, engineers, partners and thought-leaders from around the world at HPE Discover 2016, June 7-9th in Las Vegas.
Come visit Docker in Booth #213 to learn how Docker’s Containers-as-a-Service platform is transforming modern application infrastructures, allowing business to benefit from a more agile development environment.
IDC report shows Cisco lost some steam in the first quarter as competitors HPE and Huawei increased revenue.
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. But every now and then, the waves synchronize, and it is either really exciting as the market rises or something of a bummer as it falls. In the first quarter of this year, there was a bit of a dip but still an order of magnitude less dramatic than the collapse in shipments and sales during the Great Recession.
It is important to keep perspective, and it is actually quite remarkable that the server market is as …
Hyperscalers, Enterprises Pull Back On Server Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Teridion provides visibility into the performance of routes across cloud service providers and uses cloud-based networking to send your traffic across the best-performing link in real time.
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