All of the new RAN gear is running on chipsets from Nokia’s ReefShark portfolio, including new...
“No company can afford not to have a multi-dimensional, dynamic supply strategy that is capable...
The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. It's free to download, so don't be shy.
It's not short: 557 pages and 21 chapters! So what's it about? In short it's about "reliability through the lens of security."
In long, Ana Oprea, one of the authors, gave a good overview. anaoprea:
There are multiple questions about what this book is about, who it's for and what might be relevant for me. We recommend going through the Preface to get answers to these questions. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function.
We wanted to write a book that focuses on integrating security and reliability directly into the software and system lifecycle, both to highlight technologies and practices that protect systems and keep them reliable, and to illustrate how those practices interact with each other.
We’d like to explicitly acknowledge that some of the strategies this book recommends require infrastructure support that simply may not exist where you’re currently working.
Because security and reliability are everyone’s responsibility, we’re Continue reading
Back in the summer of 2017 I was an intern at Cloudflare. During the scholastic year I was a graduate student working on automorphic forms and computational Langlands at Berkeley: a part of number theory with deep connections to representation theory, aimed at uncovering some of the deepest facts about number fields. I had also gotten involved in Internet standardization and security research, but much more on the applied side.
While I had published papers in computer security and had coded for my dissertation, building and deploying new protocols to production systems was going to be new. Going from the academic environment of little day to day supervision to the industrial one of more direction; from greenfield code that would only ever be run by one person to large projects that had to be understandable by a team; from goals measured in years or even decades, to goals measured in days, weeks, or quarters; these transitions would present some challenges.
Cloudflare at that stage was a very different company from what it is now. Entire products and offices simply did not exist. Argo, now a mainstay of our offering for sophisticated companies, was slowly emerging. Access, which Continue reading
Andrea Dainese added REST (Web) API to his Automation for Cisco NetDevOps article. You might love his explanation of the screen scraping methods used by legacy implementations. He was too polite to throw around any names, but I could immediately think of NETCONF or RESTCONF implementation on Cisco IOS.
Browser isolation is like social distancing. But instead of protecting people from pandemics,...
KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment...
VMware claimed SD-WAN victory over Cisco; HPE readied $2 billion COVID-19 relief for enterprises;...
As retail customers demand constant connectivity, 5G and SD-branch can work together to bring them...
The agreement pairs Lanner's universal CPE hardware with nacXwan’s SD-WAN software stack to...
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The US FCC has announced its intention to release the 6Ghz spectrum for unlicensed use in an upcoming vote. I spoke with Keith Parsons who is deeply involved in the process and years of experience on the process to find out more.
The post BIB092 – 6Ghz Wireless Spectrum, Unlicensed Access with US FCC appeared first on Packet Pushers.
There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. There’s not much in between.
So it means something when even a team at a company like Uber announces a change away from microservices to something else. What? Macroservices. But we’ll get to that. Think what you want about Uber the company, but from a software perspective Uber has been a good citizen.
Gergely Orosz, an Engineering Manager on the Payments Experience Platform at Uber, in a tweet signaled a change in architectural direction:
As billions of us move into self-isolation, one thing is crystal clear: Internet access is critical. If anyone of us took it for granted before, COVID-19 has changed everything and rocketed the world into a new era. So it’s even more critical we build an Internet for everyone.
But we’ll only get there if we bring more diversity to the table when it comes to building infrastructure, developing sound policy, and creating the communities needed.
A lot of our work involves bringing people together. Network operators, policymakers, advocates, community members, and more. That’s because the Internet is built by people, and new ways to bring infrastructure to the world only come from what can happen when people come together.
In 2019, the Internet Society held the third annual Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) in Hilo, Hawai’i.
Among the delegates were five Indigenous advocates from across North America who trained to become 2019 Indigenous Connectivity Summit Policy Advisors.
Based on conversation and outcomes from the Summit, they developed a set of recommendations to help policymakers in the United States and Canada make more inclusive decisions. These recommendations build on those developed at the previous Summits in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
These recommendations were then discussed and agreed Continue reading
Rakuten Mobile’s successful launch serves as a clarion call for the wireless industry, proving...