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Ruckus Tackles In-Building Cellular Problem
New OpenG technology uses Citizens Broadband Radio Service in the 3.5 GHz spectrum.
Business Agility Drives NV Demand
In the past few years, as the SDN and NV market have evolved from PowerPoint concepts to working products, the market has matured into a multibillion-dollar business.
Ericsson Does R&D With Telefónica, Vodafone & NTT
The pre-MWC rush encompasses 5G and cloud data centers.
Shared Spectrum: Now How is THIS Going to Work?
By: Juan Santiago, Director of Product Management In my last post we discussed how shared spectrum is a fundamental new enabler for in-building cellular. We also introduced Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the U.S. shared spectrum scheme that became Part...Facebook Builds A Network Troubleshooting System
Social media giant developed NetNORAD to quickly track down problems on its massive network.
5 Can’t-Miss VMware Sessions at RSA Conference – Mark Your Calendar Today
This year’s RSA Conference ought to be good—and VMware is well represented among the 
industry’s security leaders and pioneers who will discuss topics from network virtualization to data center security to Minecraft. Continue reading
Response:Ingram Micro Sold. Supply Chain Integrity Question
One of the biggest distributors of IT technology is now owned by a Chinese company. Supply chain integrity anyone ?
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Research ‘net: Dirt jumper -smart
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are often used to hold companies—particularly wealthy companies, like financial institutions—to ransom. Given the number of botnets in the world which can be purchased by the hour, and the relative ease with which new systems can be infected (especially given the rise of the Internet of Things), it’s important to find new and innovative ways to protect against such attacks. Dirt Jumper is a common DDoS platform based on the original Dirt, widely used to initiate such attacks. Probably the most effective protection against DDoS attacks, particularly if you can’t pin down the botnet and block it on a per-IP-address basis (try that one some time) is to construct a tar pit that will consume the attacker’s resources at a rate faster than your server’s are consumed.
The paper linked here describes one such tar pit, and even goes into detail around a defect in the Dirt Jumper platform, and how the defenders exploited the defect. This is not only instructive in terms of understanding and countering DDoS attacks, it’s also instructive from another angle. If you think software is going to eat the world, remember that even hacking software has defects that Continue reading
Your Docker Agenda for IBM InterConnect 2016
Are you attending IBM InterConnect 2016 on February 22-25 at the Mandalay Bay & MGM Grand in Las Vegas? Be sure to visit the the Docker team next week in booth #68! Stop by as Docker employees will be on-hand … ContinuedVerizon Chooses Viptela’s SD-WAN
Where does this leave Versa?
Golang is GO GO GO!
You will have to be a programmer if you’re going to be a network engineer in the future,
they say. I don’t agree, but it surely helps you do your job. But what language should you learn? Perl? (no) Python? (maybe) Ruby? (perhaps) Every time I say something about learning Python, a little voice on Twitter says Or Go!
. Go? Go. And so, sucker that I am, I gave it a go (pun intended). TLDR: I think you should, too.
The Go Programming Language
The name Go feels like it should be a terrible word to search for on the Internet because it’s so short, but searches actually work remarkably well if you use Google Search. Compare the results of a search for “go if then else” from Bing and Google below; I’ll let you guess which is which:
Maybe Google has learned from my search history. So, what’s important to know? Go is:
- Open source. The source code is readily available and can sometimes be helpful to figure out what’s going on.
- Free, obviously
- Pretty fast
- Multi-platform (Linux, OS X, Windows for starters)
- A compiled language
- Strongly typed
- Capable of Continue reading