The Ethernet community is working to introduce six new rates in the next 3 years

In its first 27 years of existence we saw the introduction of six Ethernet rates – 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10Gbps 40Gbps and 100Gbps.  And the Ethernet community is now working feverously to introduce six new rates -- 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps, 25Gbps 50Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps-- in the next three years. 

Higher Ethernet rates used to be introduced when industry bandwidth requirements drove the need for speed.  Butwith Ethernet’s success, it soon became apparent that one new advance could satisfy the requirements of each Ethernet application space.  This was clearly illustrated nearly 10 years ago when it was recognized that computing and networking were growing at different rates.   This led to 40Gbps being selected as the next rate for servers beyond 10Gbps, while 100Gbps was selected as the next networking rate.   

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Flagship HTC 10 to debut on Verizon Wireless

The HTC 10 announcement left the impression that HTC built another desirable unlocked phone like the HTC One A9 that Verizon Wireless customers were locked out of buying. But today, without a formal announcement the HTC 10 appeared on Verizon’s website. The Verizon version of the HTC 10 isn’t available on HTC’s website.Preorders begin on April 29 2016. There was no mention of price and availability. It should be priced at $699 unless HTC diverges from its usual policy of pricing the same models at the same prices; though promotions can be different between carriers for the same models. Looking at the hardware, the same model that supports AT&T and T-Mobile also has the frequency bands for Verizon, indicating that the early May availability could be the same for all three models.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How AMD is ressurecting itself as a formidable rival to Intel

The rivalry between AMD and Intel peaked during the first decade of the 2000s, when the companies consistently challenged each other with a stream of chip innovations.Since then, AMD lost its way, and today it barely registers as a threat to Intel. But the competitive landscape could start changing as early as next year.Intel's x86 chips are installed in most PCs and servers, and AMD has been losing market share for years. AMD's chip technology has fallen behind Intel's after some ill-advised architectural changes, acquisitions, and manufacturing problems.Intel's x86 processor market share was 87.7 percent the fourth quarter of 2015, growing from 86.3 percent a year earlier. AMD held just a 12.1 percent share, falling from 13.6 percent, according to Mercury Research.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: The IETF as a model

Imagine a world where you would be judged by the power of your ideas and not by your title, your origin, your age, your sex or even your academic credentials. Imagine a world where ideas can be debated with great openness and where it is still possible to make decisions by consensus. Imagine a world where competitors work together for the future of humanity.

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In the Software Defined Data Center, application response time trumps infrastructure capacity management

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.The adoption of software-defined data center (SDDC) technologies is driven by tremendous potential for dynamic scalability and business agility, but the transition is fraught with complexities that need to be considered.This ecosystem relies on the abstraction or pooling of physical resources (primarily compute, network and storage) by means of virtualization. With software orchestrating new or updated services, the promise is these resources can be provisioned in real-time, without human intervention. In essence, this is the technology response to the agility demands of the modern digital business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Baidu Eyes Deep Learning Strategy in Wake of New GPU Options

This month Nvidia bolstered its GPU strategy to stretch further into deep learning, high performance computing, and other markets, and while there are new options to consider, particularly for the machine learning set, it is useful to understand what these new arrays of chips and capabilities mean for users at scale. As one of the companies directly in the lens for Nvidia with its recent wave of deep learning libraries and GPUs, Baidu has keen insight into what might tip the architectural scales—and what might still stay the same, at least for now.

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Baidu Eyes Deep Learning Strategy in Wake of New GPU Options was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Large hijack affects reachability of high traffic destinations

Starting today at 17:09 UTC our systems detected a large scale routing incident affecting hundreds of Autonomous systems. Many BGPmon users have received an email informing them of this change.

Our initial investigation shows that the scope of this incident is widespread and affected 576 Autonomous systems and 3431 prefixes. Amongst the networks affected are high traffic prefixes including those of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Akamai, Time Warner Cable Internet and more.

All these events have either AS200759 “innofield AG” or private AS 65021 as the origin AS. In the cases where AS65021 appears as the origin AS, AS200759 is again the next-hop AS.

AS200759 “innofield AG”  is a provider based out of Switzerland and normally only announces one IPv4 and one IPv6 prefix.

These are 2 example events:

Prefix  66.220.152.0/21 Is normally announced by Facebook AS32934 and during this event was announced by AS200759 as a more specific /22

Detected prefix: 66.220.152.0/22
Example aspath: 4608 24130 7545 6939 200759

And AS origin: 65021 behind AS 200759

Detected prefix: 66.220.152.0/22
Example aspath: 133812 23948 4788 6939 200759 65021

We saw the announcements via the following peers and providers of  AS200759 “innofield Continue reading

Doom will be AI’s next big gaming challenge

AI may have trounced humanity in the ancient game of Go, but it remains untested in countless other gaming arenas. Case in point: Doom, which, it turns out, will be the technology's next big challenge.Launched in 1993, Doom is widely considered a landmark title in the video-game industry for popularizing the first-person shooter genre. Now, artificial-intelligence researchers will have a chance to pit their creations against others in a contest based on the game at the IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games conference in September.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

From cosmic living-rooms to communications, NASA craving deep space public brainstorms

NASA this week said it was calling for public input on living quarters for astronauts to live in deep space as well as systems and technologies for a new Mars Orbiter.As far as the living spaces go, Congress earlier this year urged the space agency to move along its ideas for how humans would live on planets or other places far from Earth. With that pressure as a backdrop NASA said it wants US companies, universities, and non-profit organizations to offer up their best ideas for space living systems would include reliable life support systems, fire safety, atmosphere revitalization and monitoring, water processing, lighting, and fire detection and radiation protection.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

From cosmic living-rooms to communications, NASA craving deep space public brainstorms

NASA this week said it was calling for public input on living quarters for astronauts to live in deep space as well as systems and technologies for a new Mars Orbiter.As far as the living spaces go, Congress earlier this year urged the space agency to move along its ideas for how humans would live on planets or other places far from Earth. With that pressure as a backdrop NASA said it wants US companies, universities, and non-profit organizations to offer up their best ideas for space living systems would include reliable life support systems, fire safety, atmosphere revitalization and monitoring, water processing, lighting, and fire detection and radiation protection.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why early STEM education will drive the U.S. economy

The Obama administration is continuing its push to advance math and science education this week, turning attention to early learning with the announcement of a slew of initiatives aimed at promoting the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, mathematics and engineering.[ Related: STEM education gets boost from White House ]The White House and Department of Education are positioning early STEM education as a key to the administration's goal of elevating the nation's competitive position, both by measure of student achievement and, in the longer view, by the economic and social benefits that follow from a workforce with a solid foundation in the subjects that are increasingly critical to the 21st century economy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cloud will make U.S. immigration agency more agile

Improving the delivery of services to citizens has been one of the driving goals of government IT reform, in particular as consumers seek out more services through agency websites or applications.At the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, CIO Mark Schwartz is helping lead an overhaul of the way the agency approaches software and application development[ Related: Government wants to increase IT spending 13% in proposed budget ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cloud storage pioneer Bitcasa is killing its cloud storage

Bitcasa is getting out of the consumer cloud storage business, the company announced Thursday.“We are discontinuing our Bitcasa Drive service in order to focus our full attention on our growing platform business,” the company said in a short blog post, as first reported by VentureBeat. “All account owners must take action to avoid losing their files.”Users who need assistance recovering and preserving their files should use Bitcasa’s Help Center, the company said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Popular desktop Linux distro Ubuntu has potentially serious privacy flaw

A feature in the just-released 16.04 version of Ubuntu could pose a serious threat to the privacy of desktop Linux users, according to a well-known open-source software expert.Version 16.04, the latest long-term-support release of Ubuntu, features a new package format used for installing software on an Ubuntu system, called snap. Snaps are designed to be easier for developers to construct, simpler to deploy, and able to work comfortably alongside the existing deb package format.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Windows 10's upgrade model temporarily wipes $1.6B from Microsoft's books | One of GNU/Linux’s most important networking components just got an update  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DevOps and deviance: How bad IT practices become accepted as normal

Peter Waterhouse, Senior Strategist, CA TechnologiesAlthough vendor-written, this contributed piece does not promote a product or service and has been edited and approved by Network World editors.How many times have you witnessed a sub-optimal IT practice that everyone else thinks is ok, then over time accepted the behavior as being just fine and dandy?Regardless of whether you lead a startup or work in an established business, we all have a tendency to accept dodgy behaviors. Even if outsiders see them as wrong, our IT teams are so accustomed to using them (without any adverse consequences) that they’re quickly established as “normal” and accepted.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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