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BT Openreach to trial Dark Fibre Access in August 2017
When the government owns the fibre and copper cabling but leaves the operation and revenue extraction to commercial companies you get competitive telecoms Openreach’s DFA product will allow rival...
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Research: Wired Ethernet: Intel® Ethernet X520 to XL710 -…|Intel Communities
This balance is also important when looking at the interaction within a server between the network cards (which have some on-board buffering) and the DPDK managed buffer resources on the host. A better...
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Response: ASA logout weirdness
5545x/act# logoff ^ ERROR: % Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker. 5545x/act# logout Logoff I would expect nothing less from a Cisco CLI to be fair. Irrational, inconsistent and byzantine CLI is the...
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vSphere 6.5 Security Encrypted vMotion
Interesting Encrypted vMotion has been asked about for YEARS. It’s here now in vSphere 6.5! And, like VM Encryption, we’ve taken a different approach than you might think. We don’t actually encrypt the...
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Dictionary: Shallow Packet Inspection
Vendors marketing is getting overexcited with hyperbole and suddenly basic filtering such as access-lists are Deep Packet Inspection. Packet munging for layer 2-4 is shallow packet inspection....
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Why Containers Are Crap
I appreciated this rant by @alicegoldfuss on a impractical parts of running containers. Not many people talk about the downsides. (shame its not on a blog somewhere where it would be readable) It's...
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And Then They Join You…– Open Source @VMware
This seems significant. VMware has hired a key Linux kernel contributor, specifically Real Time. We have seen a substantial reversal of open source commitments by many incumbent vendors eg. Cisco in...
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Your Business Won’t Use a Server in 5 Years ? What Bull….
What a load of bull. The journey to cloud is a matter of when, not if. The first step in that journey is well underway with organizations replacing on-premise servers with cloud-based systems that are...
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Musing: Google Establishes CA Root Authority.
Google continues to build out its ownership of key Internet infrastructure. Email/Spam filtering, Chrome Browser, DNS As we look forward to the evolution of both the web and our own products it is...
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Response:New Office 365 subscriptions for consumers plunged 62% in 2016 |...
Another “public cloud isn’t for everyone” story: By charting Office 365’s new subscribers using a trailing 12 months — the latest quarter plus the three previous — to eliminate seasonal spikes, the...
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Musing: Conferences and Travel Bans
The IETF posted that travel bans may impact its decisions on where to hold conferences. This has got me thinking. A substantial number of people travel internationally to conferences that are hosted in...
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Response: BGP in 2016 – Geoff Huston
Geoff Huston taking a withering look at the crapness of BGP in the Internet. As always, its quite crap excluding the fact that it actually works (more or less). It has become either a tradition, or a...
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Response: Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in AWS ...
Oracle doubles pricing on cloud use in AWS which will ‘coincidentally’ make the high pricing of its own cloud look relatively cheap. Will customers lie down and take this ? Almost certainly, its hard...
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Help Wanted: Stitching a Federated SDN on OpenStack with EVPN
I am working with a client that has a rather unique problem and I’m looking for help on the possible solution. For unusual, but practical, reasons there is a need to deploy three SDN solutions. VMware...
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ENISA online training material updated and extended — ENISA
Free Training materials on IT Security incident and breach response. Looks quite good. The new training material provides a step-by-step guide on how to address and respond to incidents, as an incident...
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Dictionary: friendor
Friendor – a vendor person who pretends to be your friend but all they really want is your money / purchase order. (Brutal) The post Dictionary: friendor appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Musing: Open Network Linux Expansion | Big Switch Networks, Inc.
Progress towards standardised switching hardware is moving along nicely. Big Switch is support 14 MORE platforms with its OpenNetworkLinux NOS and applications. Support for 12 New Platforms In addition...
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Thought: Latest Apple Mac Customers Are Switching from Windows
Tim Cook in the latest earnings calls. The Mac not only returned to growth but generated its highest quarterly revenue ever. Our latest data shows that most Mac customers are buying their first Mac,...
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Tutorial: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking –...
Added to my to-do list to watch and re-watch this about every 6 months. Topics include: How fiber works (the basics, fiber types and limitations, etc) Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using...
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Response: Four Ways to Tackle H-1B Visa Reform – IEEE Spectrum
A balanced discussion on the merits of the US H1B visa program. These programs exist in most developed nations, and the same issues apply. As you would expect, the program is used to benefit some...
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