Three Areas of Impact on the Networking Industry

The state of the networking industry is undergoing a transformation. Both hardware and software have given way to the realization that applications and infrastructure are less about the individual functions of the sub-components of the overall system and more about the workflows that are being expressed against the technology as a whole.

Workflows, however, are also sub-components of the overall business logic that is being described, and ultimately expressed against the infrastructure. Micro-services and/or services oriented architectures are fundamentally changing many facets of technology, both in business practice and in features and functionality of the technology. They’re enabling a more agile and flexible technological landscape, and are helping to define administrative boundaries with respect to overall operations of the infrastructure.

Impact on Infrastructure

When looking at technology overall there is an obvious pattern emerging in all realms of the hardware that is enabling the industry. Programmability: the desire to express logic against infrastructure much in the same way that we’re able to express logic in the context of an application. “Infrastructure as code” is a phrase I’m sure we’ve all heard over the last couple of years, and this is something that is definitely being attained with the ecosystem of Continue reading

First steps with Python and Junos

I’m just spending the day trying to get my head around some very basic automation, so I thought I would install Python 2.7 and work through some of the tutorials on the Techwiki to see how I get on.

The tutorial I’m following is called Python for Non-Programmers and offers an easy way in for people like me.  Of course as with a lot of open-source stuff, you don’t just download Python and get started – there are various dependencies, and dependencies with dependencies that you need to install first.  If at the end of all that you’ve not forgotten what your name is or why you were doing all this shenanigans in the first place you can count yourself as winning.

Installation on a Windows machine is documented nicely here, but there are a few things which are out of date.

One part where it tells you run an executable to install ‘lxml’ but there isn’t one when you click the link provided.  So instead you need to install it with a program called pip, which can be found in C:Python27scripts by default.  pip is not in the PATH envirronment variable by default Continue reading

Police breaks up cybergang that stole over $15 million from banks

Romanian authorities have detained 25 people who are suspected of being members of an international gang of cyberthieves who hacked into banks, cloned payment cards and used them to steal over US$15 million.The group is believed to have over 52 members of Romanian and other nationalities, and broke into computer systems belonging to banks from Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, and Muscat, Oman, according to the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).The hackers used the unauthorized access to steal payment card data associated with the accounts of large corporations and then used the data to create fraudulent copies of those cards. The cloned cards were distributed to members of the group who used them to withdraw money from ATMs in different countries, DIICOT said Sunday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, April 27

After the earthquake: Tech is a fragile lifeline in NepalIn the first day after a devastating earthquake in Nepal on Saturday, Internet connectivity looked to be an important conduit for bypassing an overloaded telephone network. But by Monday it was clear that large-scale power outages and last-mile Internet connectivity problems were making communications very difficult. The death toll from the quake and numerous aftershocks stands at more than 3,400 people with thousands more injured. Among those killed was a high-ranking Google engineer who was one of a number of expeditioners on Mount Everest who lost their lives in an avalanche triggered by the earthquake.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, April 27

After the earthquake: Tech is a fragile lifeline in NepalIn the first day after a devastating earthquake in Nepal on Saturday, Internet connectivity looked to be an important conduit for bypassing an overloaded telephone network. But by Monday it was clear that large-scale power outages and last-mile Internet connectivity problems were making communications very difficult. The death toll from the quake and numerous aftershocks stands at more than 3,400 people with thousands more injured. Among those killed was a high-ranking Google engineer who was one of a number of expeditioners on Mount Everest who lost their lives in an avalanche triggered by the earthquake.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Alibaba looks to rural China to popularize its mobile OS

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group hasn’t given up on its mobile OS, and is taking the software to China’s rural markets through a series of low-cost phones.The company has partnered with mobile carrier China Telecom to sell the YunOS handsets. The eight phones will be built by lesser-known Chinese brands, and will range from 299 yuan (US$49) to 699 yuan.Although Alibaba has its own Android apps that connect to its popular e-commerce stores, the Linux-based YunOS comes with a whole suite of company-developed services.The software, however, hasn’t gained much share in the market. In 2012, Google claimed it was a variant of its Android OS, sparking a clash that threatened to derail Alibaba’s effort to popularize the mobile OS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A year later, Microsoft’s Nokia deal isn’t a clear winner

It was a marriage of convenience for two industry giants whose past successes weren’t helping them win in the red-hot smartphone market. One year later, it’s hard to say that Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s device business has produced the results its backers envisioned.In the wake of the US$7.2 billion acquisition, Lumia smartphones and the Windows Phone OS are still running into many of the same market roadblocks.But Microsoft isn’t throwing in the towel, and has high hopes that its phone business will get a major boost from Windows 10, which is meant to create an environment where users can move easily between desktops, tablets and their smartphones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A year later, Microsoft’s Nokia deal isn’t a clear winner

It was a marriage of convenience for two industry giants whose past successes weren’t helping them win in the red-hot smartphone market. One year later, it’s hard to say that Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s device business has produced the results its backers envisioned. In the wake of the US$7.2 billion acquisition, Lumia smartphones and the Windows Phone OS are still running into many of the same market roadblocks. But Microsoft isn’t throwing in the towel, and has high hopes that its phone business will get a major boost from Windows 10, which is meant to create an environment where users can move easily between desktops, tablets and their smartphones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Review: MacBook Air killer from ASUS

ZenbookAt first glance, you might mistake the ASUS ZenBook UX305 as a dark-gray edition of the 13-inch MacBook Air. It shares nearly the same design cues and size, but is thinner than the Apple notebook is at its thickest point, and weighs less. It also beats many of the current 13-inch MacBook Air’s hardware specs. And it costs less -- a whole lot less – at $699, compared to $999 for the MacBook Air.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Review: MacBook Air killer from ASUS

ZenbookAt first glance, you might mistake the ASUS ZenBook UX305 as a dark-gray edition of the 13-inch MacBook Air. It shares nearly the same design cues and size, but is thinner than the Apple notebook is at its thickest point, and weighs less. It also beats many of the current 13-inch MacBook Air’s hardware specs. And it costs less -- a whole lot less – at $699, compared to $999 for the MacBook Air.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 04.27.2015

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.CudaEye Local+Key features – CudaEye is a cloud-managed IP surveillance solution that offers many choices to fit the needs of customers. CudaEye delivers quality real-time and archived video directly to browsers and mobile devices. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 04.27.2015

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.CudaEye Local+Key features – CudaEye is a cloud-managed IP surveillance solution that offers many choices to fit the needs of customers. CudaEye delivers quality real-time and archived video directly to browsers and mobile devices. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Fun With Subinterfaces

Loving this regex at the moment!
show int description | i 9/[1-2].1..
Te9/1.107 up up XXXX
Te9/1.111 up up XXXX
Te9/2.106 up up XXXX
Te9/2.110 up up XXXX

Help me see subinterfaces allocated on transit interfaces fairly simply.


Capgemini to expand in North America with $4B acquisition of iGate

French IT services company Capgemini is to acquire iGate in the U.S. for US$4.0 billion, in a bid to expand its presence in the North American market.The deal will boost Capgemini’s revenue from North America by 33 percent to $4 billion, making the region the first to account for 30 percent of its revenue.The iGate acquisition also brings to Capgemini additional expertise in application and infrastructure services, business process outsourcing and engineering services. Capgemini also gets iGate’s clients, including key customers such as General Electric and Royal Bank of Canada, to whom it can now cross-sell its own services.After the acquisition, the merged entity will have an estimated combined revenue of €12.5 billion ($13.6 billion) in 2015, an operating margin above 10 percent and around 190,000 employees. About 50,000 of these employees will be focused on North American clients.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Nepal communications hit by power outage, last-mile issues

Phone and Internet communications have been hit in Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu after a devastating earthquake, forcing aid workers at times to ask people to go across with messages.The International Red Cross and tech companies like Facebook and Google introduced tools to help users check online on people affected, but their effectiveness could be impacted by large-scale power outages and last-mile Internet connectivity problems.MORE: Google exec dies on Mt. Everest as result of Nepal quakeTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NetBeez Review

NetBeez presented at Network Field Day 9, where they showed us their solution for distributed network performance monitoring. They gave the delegates a NetBeez agent to take home and test. I’ve run it for the last two months, and I’ve been happy with how it has performed.

Physical Install

The unit was supplied with a US power plug. I was contemplating using an adapter, but I didn’t have any spare power points near where I wanted to install it. Hmmm. Then I realised that the power connection is just a USB port anyway. The Ethernet cable needed to go into my SRX-110, so I wonder if…

NetBeez and SRX

Yup! Powers from the USB port on the SRX. Perfect.

Monitoring Setup

The device powered on, and it soon showed up on the NetBeez web dashboard. This is where you can configure your agents, define what tests you want them to run, and see the results.

I added a few simple monitors:

All very straightforward to add the monitors, and pick which agents to run them from. Running the same tests from multiple agents gives you a distributed status Continue reading

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