Heavy Networking 566: Inside Intel’s Strategy To Unlock Data Center Performance (Sponsored)

On today's Heavy Networking we dive into Intel's portfolio---including Tofino, SmartNICs, P4, and more---to understand how it unlocks the compute power of your data center. Our guest is Mike Zeile, Data Center Group Vice President and General Manager of End-to-End Network Applications at Intel. Intel is our sponsor.

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Technology Short Take 138

Welcome to Technology Short Take #138. I have what I hope is an interesting and useful set of links to share with everyone this time around. I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! However, there should be something for most everyone else. Enjoy!

Networking

  • I’ve been interested in learning more about gRPC, so this guide on analyzing gRPC messages using Wireshark may be useful.
  • Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies.
  • Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. The latest series of posts (found here and here) are, in my opinion, just outstanding. I want to be like Ivan when I grow up. #BeLikeIvan
  • If you work with TextFSM templates (see here for more information), then you might also like this post on writing a vim syntax plugin for TextFSM templates.
  • Want/need to better understand IPv6? Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge.

Security

In Macedonia, Strengthening IXP.mk’s Peering Infrastructure

The Internet Society has been supporting the development of the Internet in Macedonia by collaborating with the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE) of the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia on its IXP.mk project. IXPs play a critical role in bringing faster and more affordable Internet, and the Macedonian IXP (IXP.mk) had been established in June 2018 with technical support from a number of stakeholders.

Switch and MUX to Strengthen Infrastructure

As traffic grew, IXP.mk needed to increase its peering capacity with improved switching capabilities and space for data racks that would allow it to attract new participants to the exchange. In 2020, the Internet Society provided IXP.mk with a switch and two Fiber Optic Multiplexers (Fiber Mux) that enabled an additional peering location to be established in the Telesmart Telekom data center, thereby making it easier for other major networks and Content Distribution Networks to peer with each other. The Fiber Muxes support the transmission of multiple data channels over a single fiber that has been donated by an existing member of IXP.mk.

Critical Service Provider

With a strong peering infrastructure, IXP.mk is now a critical service provider to Continue reading

Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform

Introduction to Anomaly Detection for Bot Management

Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform

Cloudflare’s Bot Management platform follows a “defense in depth” model. Although each layer of Bot Management has its own strengths and weaknesses, the combination of many different detection systems — including Machine Learning, rule-based heuristics, JavaScript challenges, and more — makes for a robust platform in which different detection systems compensate for each other’s weaknesses.

One of these systems is Anomaly Detection, a platform motivated by a simple idea: because bots are made to accomplish specific goals, such as credential stuffing or content scraping, they interact with websites in distinct and difficult-to-disguise ways. Over time, the actions of a bot are likely to differ from those of a real user. Anomaly detection aims to model the characteristics of legitimate user traffic as a healthy baseline. Then, when automated bot traffic is set against this baseline, the bots appear as outlying anomalies that can be targeted for mitigation.

An anomaly detection approach is:

  • Resilient against bots that try to circumvent protections by spoofing request metadata (e.g., user agents)
  • Able to catch previously unseen bots without being explicitly trained against them.

So, how well does this work?

Today, Anomaly Detection processes more than Continue reading

Cisco bumps up its silicon speed to 25.6Tbps

Cisco continues to crank up the speed of its webscaler-class Silicon One devices, this week adding three new devices—including 25.6Tbps switching silicon it says delivers  1.7 times higher bandwidth and three times higher packets-per-second than other silicon on the market.Cisco unveiled the Silicon One family of unified switches and routers in 2019 as part of what it called its “Internet for the Future”  strategy.  The Silicon One family is important as Cisco has designs on being a leading provider of the network underpinnings of large webscale and service provider networks. The family can also help Cisco compete effectively with others such as Intel, Broadcom, Juniper, Arista.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco bumps up its silicon speed to 25.6Tbps

Cisco continues to crank up the speed of its webscaler-class Silicon One devices, this week adding three new devices—including 25.6Tbps switching silicon it says delivers  1.7 times higher bandwidth and three times higher packets-per-second than other silicon on the market.Cisco unveiled the Silicon One family of unified switches and routers in 2019 as part of what it called its “Internet for the Future”  strategy.  The Silicon One family is important as Cisco has designs on being a leading provider of the network underpinnings of large webscale and service provider networks. The family can also help Cisco compete effectively with others such as Intel, Broadcom, Juniper, Arista.To read this article in full, please click here

Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge

Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …

Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Video: Cisco SD-WAN Routing Design

After reviewing Cisco SD-WAN policies, it’s time to dig into the routing design. In this section, David Penaloza enumerated several possible topologies, types of transport, their advantages and drawbacks, considerations for tunnel count and regional presence, and what you should consider beforehand when designing the solution from the control plane’s perspective.

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Video: Cisco SD-WAN Routing Design

After reviewing Cisco SD-WAN policies, it’s time to dig into the routing design. In this section, David Penaloza enumerated several possible topologies, types of transport, their advantages and drawbacks, considerations for tunnel count and regional presence, and what you should consider beforehand when designing the solution from the control plane’s perspective.

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Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

How to Improve Employee Morale

We are going through a situation that is unprecedented and heart-breaking. There are so many emotions attached to the situation right now that if you started naming them one by one, it would take you a significant amount of time. The world is crumbling apart, and the worst part is that most people have to work to provide for their families. It doesn’t matter if they are working from home or the office, anxieties and stress are increasing and you can do nothing about it.

The work is increasing, the health situation is deteriorating, and there is too much uncertainty. Which is why companies, like ours, are working to promote ways in which you can help boost your employee’s morale.

When you ask the question, “How to Improve Employee Morale”, we make sure that we provide you with the exact results which can help you. You can also visit our website to see the many products available to you.

Here are just a couple of ways in which you can boost your employee’s morale.

Be Transparent

What your employees need more than anything in the world right now is transparency. They need to know what is going on and what Continue reading

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