Juniper plans to disaggregate its Junos switch OS from the new QFX5200 switches. The QFX5200 line will be the first from Juniper that lets customers choose to run Junos or a third-party network OS. Junos will also run on non-Juniper hardware. Juniper hasn't yet announced third-party partners.
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With IoT, Telus could contract with a utility to do meter reading.
Its time for a change!
It was a tough decision, but i’ve decided that I need some new challenges in my professional life. To that effect, i’ve quit my old job and joined a different VAR/SP where I will be working in a skilled team of network engineers.
My duties will include maintaining and expanding a growing MPLS network, with all the services one can build on top of such a beast. Along with that, I will be attached to large enterprise customers, helping with design and implementation.
The new job is very supportive of my effort to go after the elusive CCDE certification, which was a big part of my decision as well, so expect more updates in that direction!
I’ve had some great years with awesome coworkers, but I have great confidence in the coming years as well!
Finally, a big thanks to my family and friends for supporting me through this decision process!
/Kim
Unlike AT&T before Domain 2.0, these companies will court startups.
The Datanauts talk with John Merline, a network architect at a Fortune 500 company. He shares his experiences moving data and applications to the cloud, working in a hybrid cloud model, implementing DevOps, and more.
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The Datanauts talk with John Merline, a network architect at a Fortune 500 company. He shares his experiences moving data and applications to the cloud, working in a hybrid cloud model, implementing DevOps, and more.
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Industries mature, of course. That they do so shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who’s watched the world for very long. The question is — do they mature in a way that places a few players at the “top,” leaving the rest to innovate along the edges? Or do they leave broad swaths of open space in which many players can compete and innovate? Through most of human history, the answer has been the first: industries, in the modern age, tend to ossify into a form where a few small players control most of the market, leaving the smaller players to innovate along the edges. When the major impetus in building a new company is to “get bought,” and the most common way for larger companies to innovate is by buying smaller companies (or doing “spin ins”), then you’ve reached a general point of stability that isn’t likely to change much.
Is the networking industry entering this “innovation free zone?” Or will the networking industry always be a market with more churn, and more innovation? There are signs in both directions.
For instance, there’s the idea that once technology reaches a certain level of capability, there’s just no reason for Continue reading
When writing the Packet- and Flow-Based Forwarding blog post, I tried to find a good definition of flow-based forwarding (and I was not the only one being confused), and the one from Junos SRX documentation is as good as anything else I found, so let’s use it.
TL&DR: Flow-based forwarding is a valid technical concept. However, when mentioned together with OpenFlow, it’s mostly marketing fluff.
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HPE makes its IoT move against Cisco's fog computing initiative.
