Inside the bold plan to bring gigabit fiber to Detroit

When discussing the ongoing revitalization efforts in Detroit, it's hard to miss the name Dan Gilbert. The founder of Quicken Loans, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a Detroit native himself, Gilbert's investment firms have funded dozens of tech startups in the city and turned its defunct old buildings into shiny new workspaces that look like Silicon Valley transplants.Until last year, what Detroit lacked in this daunting task to become a tech hub was access to affordable, high-speed broadband, the kind that Google Fiber was famously bringing to other cities around the country. So, rather than pray for Google to arrive or incumbent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to spontaneously change their pricing and services, Gilbert invested in two Quicken Loans employees who were crazy enough to suggest building a fiber network themselves.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Review: Breakthroughs in endpoint security

Despite advances in malware protection, endpoints get infected every day, even those running some form of anti-virus or other defense that the threat is able to circumvent. In our recent roundup of anti-virus programs, we discovered several new techniques being employed by anti-virus companies to make PCs safer against advanced threats. Even so, many anti-virus companies we talked with acknowledged that their software can’t catch everything, especially within those commonly exploited areas that are tricky to defend.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Review: Breakthroughs in endpoint security

Despite advances in malware protection, endpoints get infected every day, even those running some form of anti-virus or other defense that the threat is able to circumvent. In our recent roundup of anti-virus programs, we discovered several new techniques being employed by anti-virus companies to make PCs safer against advanced threats. Even so, many anti-virus companies we talked with acknowledged that their software can’t catch everything, especially within those commonly exploited areas that are tricky to defend.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

New products of the week 06.29.2015

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Cloud Application Delivery Platform (CADP) V. 15.1Key features: Avi’s Cloud Application Delivery Platform includes new and enhanced capabilities, including additional support and integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest public cloud environment for DevOps and coder segments. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Robots that cook, clean, sing and dance

RobotsImage by National GeographicNational Geographic’s movie Robots is making its way around theaters - including 3D - this summer featuring a range of robots with skills from cleaning to dancing to acting. Here are a few of them and their talents. These copyrighted images were provided by National Geographic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Networking Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners

Can we broadly separate Networking into Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners? I’ve been thinking about how to apply Simon Wardley’s PST model to networking. This leads to thinking about how we can encourage networking evolution. The model needs a lot of fleshing out, but I’m interested in what others think.

Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (PST)

Simon Wardley has written about “Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (PST)” in many places – e.g. here and here. It derives from Cringely’s Commandos, Infantry, Police model (see Chapter 12 of Accidental Empires). It provides a organisational structure, grouping areas based upon their current state of evolution. It recognises that no one operational model works for all parts of a business. You can’t say “We’re using Agile, or Lean, or Six Sigma” – you need to use the appropriate model for each area. Even “Bi-Modal IT” is too limiting, as the divide is too great.

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Applying PST to networking

The model is a helpful way of thinking about the role of different groups across a business. It also helps us understand why teams need to evolve over time, Continue reading

LDP Label Allocation Revisited

One of my readers was having an LDP argument with his colleague:

Yesterday I was arguing with someone who works for a large MPLS provider about LDP label allocation. He kept saying that LDP assigns a label to each next-hop, not to each prefix. Reading your blog, I believe this is the default behavior on Juniper but on Cisco LDP assigns a unique label for each IGP (non-BGP) prefix.

He’s absolutely right; Cisco and Juniper use different rules when allocating MPLS labels.

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iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Nixing those homely antenna lines; flexible displays on the way?

I thought I very well might need a new iPhone after spending this past week in Delaware at the crazy Firefly music festival during which we had to be evacuated one night because of a tornado warning. But everything turned out well, my iPhone 5 is intact, and now I can take my time awaiting iPhone 6S and iPhone 7 rumors to morph into reality. No more ugly antenna lines on the iPhone? Speculation swirled over the past week about Apple possibly ditching those homely plastic lines across the back of your iPhone…that you probably never noticed in the first place. But the plastic is practical: It allows the phone’s antenna to work by not blocking radio waves.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform

1 of the big announcements in Dockercon 2015 was the Open Container project(OCP). OCP is an Opensource project under Linux foundation to define a common Container format. Container format, runtime and platform mean different things. There are many Container formats, runtime and multiple acronyms surrounding it. In this blog, I have tried to capture my … Continue reading Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform →

Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform

1 of the big announcements in Dockercon 2015 was the Open Container project(OCP). OCP is an Opensource project under Linux foundation to define a common Container format. Container format, runtime and platform mean different things. There are many Container formats, runtime and multiple acronyms surrounding it. In this blog, I have tried to capture my … Continue reading Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform →

Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns

Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!

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Ethan Banks

Co-host at Packet Pushers

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks
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IPv6: Yet Another Post Trying to Urge You to Start TODAY

“Okay, who wants to learn IPv6 and be the IPv6 person for CPOC?”   This was the question asked by our manager to our team back in 2002 when we heard “IPv6 is COMING – GET READY NOW!”   My hand went up almost without me even realizing it. No other hands went up.  Not one. So, by default, it was me.  I was pumped with excitement!  After the meeting I immediately went online and ordered about 8 IPv6 books.  (For those of you who know me… this will not be a shock)  :)

Then what happened? Was 2003 the “year that CPOC got SLAMMED with IPv6 requests”?  Uh…. no. Was 2004? ….. No.    Don’t get me wrong.  People came in with IPv6 in the test plan.  But typically IPv6 was on the list of things to test more as a “checklist” test just to make sure the boxes could do IPv6.

In ~2006 I started believing that this “IPv4 exhaustion scare” wasn’t “real”.  NAT would take care of everything.  If it was “really” that much of a big deal …… people would be doing something serious about it. Continue reading

Samsung will stop blocking Microsoft software updates ‘within a few days’

Owners of Samsung PCs will begin receiving automatic software updates from Microsoft again soon, after Samsung said it will end its practice of blocking automatic Windows Updates on its computers.“We will be issuing a patch through the Samsung Software Update notification process to revert back to the recommended automatic Windows Update settings within a few days,” Samsung said Friday.It said it was committed to providing “a trustworthy user experience” and that it values its partnership with Microsoft.It’s a quick turnaround from earlier this week, when researcher Patrick Barker reported on an auspiciously named application called “Disable_Windowsupdate.exe” that runs on Samsung PCs as part of the company’s SW Update service. As its name implies, the program disables automatic updates from Microsoft’s software patching service, and requires people to manually install individual patches if they want to update their PC.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.

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