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#TBT: Broadcasters Messaging goes unlimited; Twitter’s early days … this week in 2007
Published on: 2019-04-18
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for "Throwback Thursdays," tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
DriveNets Boasts Cloud-Native Router Breakthrough
Published on: 2019-04-17
Cloud-native router startup DriveNets has followed up its February funding announcement by claiming its virtualized routing software, dubbed Network Cloud, can support 400G-per-port routing and be scaled up to a whopping 768 Tbit/s, making it (possibly) the highest capacity router on offer.
CloudGenix Raises $65 Million, Takes On Cisco, Legacy SD-WAN
Published on: 2019-04-17
SD-WAN provider CloudGenix raised $65 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding close to $100 million. The round included existing vendors Bain Capital Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Intel, as well as new investor ClearSky Ventures.
Ericsson, Swisscom launch commercial 5G network in Switzerland
Published on: 2019-04-17
Ericsson and carrier Swisscom have switched on what it claims to be the first large-scale commercial 5G network in Europe to support commercially available smartphones, the vendor said in a statement. The partners went live with the network on April 17, following Swisscom's securing of a ...
Making America great in 5G (Analyst Angle)
Published on: 2019-04-17
America is becoming more joined up in its pursuit of global 5G leadership, with presidential vision and objectives, complementary corporate strategies and the FCC's plans to Facilitate America's Superiority in 5G Technology (the 5G FAST Plan). In the interests of maximising international ...
7 Ways to Make Your Google CCAI Deployment Successful
Published on: 2019-04-17
If you've been following industry news on No Jitter, you've undoubtedly heard about the rapid adoption of Google's Contact Center AI (CCAI). At Enterprise Connect last month and Google's Cloud Next '19 event last week, there was a wave of announcements from systems integrators, contact software ...
What SDN is and where it’s going
Published on: 2019-04-16
Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources.
What SDN is and where it’s going
Published on: 2019-04-16
Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources.
Healthcare Providers Worldwide Adopt Cisco ACI as their Prescription for IT Excellence
Published on: 2019-04-11
SAN JOSE, Calif.-April 11, 2019 - A new application era is changing healthcare. Doctors, nurses and administrators are increasingly using mobile devices, artificial intelligence tools and telehealth solutions to better serve patients and improve organizational efficiency. These new tools and ...
Juniper opens SD-WAN service for the cloud
Published on: 2019-04-09
Juniper has taken the wraps off a cloud-based SD-WAN service it says will ease the management and bolster the security of wired and wireless-connected branch office networks.
Juniper opens SD-WAN service for the cloud
Published on: 2019-04-09
Juniper has taken the wraps off a cloud-based SD-WAN service it says will ease the management and bolster the security of wired and wireless-connected branch office networks.
Resolving the contradiction between cloud and security
Published on: 2019-04-04
Posted by Ulrich Kohn on April 04, 2019 Moving applications and data into public clouds is an easy way for enterprises to simplify cooperation among geographically dispersed teams and use compute and storage resources in a more efficient way. But those advantages come at a price.
Vodafone Idea Limited and Cisco: Building a Distributed Multicloud Network Strategy for Retail and Enterprise Customers
Published on: 2019-04-03
MUMBAI, India - April 3, 2019 - Vodafone Idea Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, is deploying a state-of-the-art, automated multicloud network across the country to enable an unmatched experience for its retail and enterprise customers. As pioneers in Cloud implementation, ...
What is infrastructure as code? A big step up from server scripting
Published on: 2019-03-07
If you have ever had to provision and configure a server, you know the pain it can bring. Take the process of configuring hardware connections, the software stack, and their interdependencies, and then multiply that across however many servers you are deploying-you are talking days and days of ...
How to move to a disruptive network technology with minimal disruption
Published on: 2019-02-27
Disruptive network technologies are great-at least until they threaten to disrupt essential everyday network services and activities. That's when it's time to consider how innovations such as SDN, SD-WAN, intent-based networking ( IBN) and network functions virtualization ( NFV) can be ...
How to secure your Azure network
Published on: 2018-10-16
Cloud services like Azure offer a lot of security features straight out of the box, especially if you're using their platform services. But virtual infrastructures are much like physical infrastructures, connecting virtual machines with software-defined virtual networks. Thus, they need the same ...
What has OpenStack done for me lately? The next 5 issues to address
Published on: 2017-05-11
OpenStack has been on a roll, seeing increased adoption across the business world, highlighted by major deployments from leading organizations like Verizon, BBVA, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as continued growth in the contributing community. But what's next? While it's nice to ...
How to: Designing a mission-critical network
Published on: 2019-04-16
Air traffic control networks are one of many mission critical networks that need special considerations ( Archives New Zealand, Flickr) Ask 10 network engineers to design a network and you'll most likely get 10 different designs each as intricate as their experience.
Network Break 230: Google Anthos Targets Hybrid Cloud; Cisco Puts ACI In AWS
Published on: 2019-04-15
Podcast: Download | Embed Take a Network Break! We start with corrections from last week's show (and please do send corrections, opinions, and responses to things we say). Then we pivot to news from Google Next '19 including Anthos for hybrid cloud, plus Cisco makes ACI available in AWS, and ...
8 Google Cloud Security Best Practices
Published on: 2019-04-09
If you'll be at Google Next this week in San Francisco, stop by booth S1739 and check out a demo of how we help secure public cloud environments. Google has been making some great inroads with their cloud expansion. As with AWS and Azure, developers can adopt Google Cloud Platform (GCP) easily, ...
Tech Docs: Panorama Plugin for Cisco ACI
Published on: 2019-04-08
The new Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI gives you the power to dynamically secure the endpoints in your Cisco ACI fabric. The Cisco ACI plugin regularly polls your APIC for changes in your endpoints. The plugin then retrieves tags, which map to endpoint IP addresses.
Cisco Live 2019 – Social Media
Published on: 2019-04-05
As many attendees know, Cisco Live back used to be called Networkers. It was a conference about networking with your peers and making new friends. Today this tradition lives on in the Social Media aspect of the event where we are able to meet people that we interact on-line with.
Lessons Learned in Cloud Networking – AWS vs Azure
Published on: 2019-04-01
I've been working a lot with cloud networking lately. I will share some of my findings as this is still quite new and documentation around some topics is poor. Especially on the Azure side. Let me just first start with
Migration Strategy: Moving From MPLS/LDP to Segment Routing
Published on: 2019-03-21
MPLS core networks that use Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) are common in SP core networks and have served us well. So, the thought of pulling the guts out of the core is pretty daunting and invites the question why you would want to perform open-heart surgery on such critical infrastructure.
Empower Your Business with the TOP 10 Cisco Items
Published on: 2019-03-21
Router-switch.com is having a big promotion on top-rated Cisco products including routing, switching, collaboration and security. The 4000 Series offers solutions for highly secure SD-WAN connectivity, application experience, unified communications, network automation, virtualization, and branch ...
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers Configuration Guide
Published on: 2019-03-18
The 4000 Series offers solutions for highly secure SD-WAN connectivity, application experience, unified communications, network automation, virtualization, and branch and direct Internet access security-all in one platform. Cisco 4000 branch router is a digital-ready platform that offers at ...
Certification Exam Questions That I Hate
Published on: 2019-03-12
In my 11 year career as an IT instructor, I've had to pass a lot of certification exams. In many cases not on the first try. Sometimes for fair reasons, and sometimes, it feels, for unfair reasons. Recently I had to take the venerable Cisco CCNA R&S exam again.
Amazon Transit VPCs and Transit Gateway
Published on: 2019-03-07
This blog is about AWS, specifically multiple VPCs and routing, and some recent developments. My intent is to give you the flavor of some AWS design approaches, and then point you to some good material for the details. Amazon AWS Transit VPCs is an important cloud concept to consider using as ...
NAE: Some Help Dealing with Brain Block
Published on: 2019-01-17
For years, thanks to the gift of misaligned perception, I've been mentally blocked. I've avoided things like Machine Learning because my perceived skill with mathematics is weak, avoided programming languages like C# because the perceived uphill hike to get familiar is high and avoided front end ...
Aruba Wireless Controllers: Architecture & Configurations
Published on: 2019-02-21
A little bit of training, some researching, and a lot of time on the GUI is what I found to be the recipe in getting comfortable with Aruba Wireless Controllers. Even though I spent more time configuring the controllers via GUI, knowing the syntaxes I now find it much simpler to do it via the CLI.
Dynamic Network Diagrams, This is what we need!
Published on: 2019-02-26
We all create network diagrams. Network Engineers create network diagrams. But for who ? When ? How they are accurate ? Do we really need network diagrams ? Let me share my thoughts with you. Network engineers have been creating network diagrams, physical diagrams, logical diagrams, showing ...
SDN Ate My Hamster
Published on: 2019-02-04
I posted a Tweet the other day which gained a lot of attention in the networking community: As SDN gains more traction, people start fearing for their jobs. Some jobs will decrease in demand and some will disappear entirely. However,
Time for a change!
Published on: 2019-01-25
I'm close to working at VMware as an NSBU Pre-Sales Systems Engineer for 3 years now. Focusing fully on NSX (and all its family members) has always been a dream come true. I believe the way VMware executes on software-defined networking (SD-everything, really) is the future and good things are ...
My Home Automation Gear
Published on: 2018-12-30
I've mostly kept this blog around virtualization technology. Over the last few months, I've had more and more conversations about home automation and how my house is tricked out. A lot of people seem to be interested in my setup, so I'm going to start sharing more on the gear, workflows & results.
SD-WAN – Glorified DMVPN?
Published on: 2018-12-28
I had an interesting discussion with Jon Cooper in the Network Collective Slack. The discussion was around SD-WAN. We were discussing if SD-WAN is just a "glorified DMVPN" or if it's something more than that. Note that this was a
GORUCK Land Navigation Heavy - East AAR
Published on: 2018-12-20
In June my son and I completed our first GORUCK Heavy event, the Land Nav on the west coast in Southern California. You can read the AAR here. It wasn't but a few weeks later that the coordinator of the event started to plan a similar event for the east coast and the location was identified as ...
Plexxi Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List
Published on: 2018-02-26
NASHUA, N.H., February 26, 2018 - Plexxi, the leader in Hyperconverged Networking (HCN), announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Plexxi to its 2018 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting ...
Innovation or Iteration
Published on: 2018-02-16
The word "innovation" gets thrown around a lot these days. I wouldn't blame anyone if the word now evokes a gag reflex similar to how we all eventually reacted to "cloud" a few years back. Every product and presentation seemed to be reworked to make it appear it was a "cloud" product.
Microsoft Storage Spaces Is Hot Garbage For Parity Storage
Published on: 2018-12-17
I love parity storage. Whether it's traditional RAID 5/6, erasure coding, raidz/raid2z, whatever. It gives you redundancy on your data without requiring double the drives that mirroring or mirroring+stripping would require. The drawback is write performance is not as good as mirroring+stripping, ...
Juniper RADIUS-delivered switching filters
Published on: 2018-11-06
I've been experimenting with getting RADIUS to deploy switching filters to Juniper switches recently, as part of a reference architecture demo. The concept is called REACH2020 and combines network virtualisation with the ability to identify network users and devices so that categories of user ...
Installing Moloch on Debian 9 Stretch
Published on: 2018-10-31
A tutorial explaining how to install Moloch, Elasticsearch and Java on Debian 9 Stretch.
“Thirteen hundred APs, no open support tickets” – achieving quality in wireless networks
Published on: 2018-10-08
"Thirteen hundred APs, no open support tickets," Sudheer Matta, VP of Products for Mist Systems, boldly stated during his MFD3 presentation. At the time, he was referencing one of their largest customers specifically, but the company's desire to prevent bugs, create high quality customer ...
Intro into Fortinet WLAN configuration
Published on: 2018-09-30
Simple, secure, sensible - Koroush Saraf, Fortiner VP of Product Management, emphasized these words in his recent MFD3 presentations. While any vendor can claim their products share these attributes, it's usually the complexity of workflow that reveals the betrayal of one or all of these ...
Resolution Immediacy and Deployment Immediacy – ACI Master Class
Published on: 2018-08-17
When configuring ACI, have you ever wondered what those Resolution Immediacy options [ Immediate | On Demand | Pre-provision] and the Deployment Immediacy options [ Immediate | On Demand] do? Read on to find out. I always like to start with a picture.
Cisco OpFlex
Published on: 2018-06-12
Cisco ACI uses OpFlex to communicate with VMWare DVS/VDS. OpFlex is an extensible policy protocol designed to exchange abstract policy between a network controller and a set of smart devices capable of rendering policy. OpFlex relies on a separate information model understood by agents in both ...
On my way to CLUS
Published on: 2018-06-09
I am excited to be in my first Ciscolive US starting tomorrow in Orlando, Florida. This post is about how I spent my time on the way to CLUS. When I decided I will go to CLUS, I booked my return fl...
The Overlay Problem: Getting In and Out
Published on: 2016-09-30
I've been researching overlay network strategies recently. There are plenty of competing implementations available, employing various encapsulations and control plane designs. But every design I've encountered seems ultimately hampered by the same issue: scalability at the edge. Why Build an ...
Wireless 2017: What We Wanted Then, and What We Want Today
Published on: 2017-12-15
As a wireless engineer, we study the 802.11 protocol. We read how the standard is written, study how it is supposed to work and yet seem to spend our time fighting why it doesn't work. Tweaking power, channels, datarates, toggling features and code versions in hope that things functions the way ...
Classic DC and M-LAG
Published on: 2016-08-29
In the pervious post we talked about BGP in Data Center and how it is a topic of discussion in between the DC and the SP arenas. In this post I will start explaining some classic DC design and laying its shortage which will engage the SP gurus with us, as well it will make sure ...