APNIC Blog | Published on: 2022-12-15

The Internet represents a threshold moment for the communications realm in many ways. It altered the immediate end client of the network service from humans to computers. It changed the communications model from synchronized service to asynchronous, and from virtual circuits to packet-switched.......

Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion | Published on: 2022-12-15

I have some Catalyst 4510R+E switches for the taking. Will I regret my life choices if I use them as L2/L3 switches? Yes, I know they are EoL. Yes, I know the ports are oversubscribed. I'm fine even with the 6 Gbps per slot bandwidth of classic modules. Yes, I know they are power hogs. That......

Light Reading | Published on: 2022-12-12

Microsoft has acquired a fiber technology company called Lumenisity in a move that could ultimately speed up the connections that Microsoft runs among its data centers and customers. The purchase is also noteworthy in light of Microsoft's other recent acquisitions in the communications sector,......

Cisco Blogs | Published on: 2022-12-22

2022 has been a year of acceleration for digitization of physical infrastructure. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has helped our customers around the globe in transforming industries like manufacturing, ports, mining, transportation, utilities, and public sector. As we reflect on the last......

Network World | Published on: 2022-12-14

Arista Networks has a new high-end data-center switch as well as several smaller ones designed to provide more configuration and upgrade choices to fit the specific needs of individual organizations. “Different customer use cases and application deployments within a single organization have......

Light Reading | Published on: 2022-12-13

China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom say they have switched off the national travel tracking app that recorded people's movements to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In operation since February 2020, the app was suspended at midnight Monday as China executes a rapid pivot away from......

Recent Questions - Network Engineering Stack Exchange | Published on: 2022-12-14

I'm in doubt if I'm checking my capture correctly. I am investigating the following issue: An IPsec site-to-site connection that does not close, my device does not respond to the request. My environment: I have a virtualized PAN-OS connected to switches with internet links. I made a packet......

IP With Ease | Published on: 2022-12-15

Every piece of technology has potential downsides. Due to its indispensable nature to your company’s functioning, communication technology carries with it an inherent degree of danger. While it may seem like unified communications (UC) is the answer to all your business communication needs,......

Cisco Blogs | Published on: 2022-12-21

The Cisco DNA Center sandboxes have always been in high demand. For a while now we have had two always-on and two reservable sandboxes for Cisco DNA Center. With each of these sandboxes requiring at least one Cisco DNA Center appliance and several Catalyst 9000 switches, it’s easy to see why......

Data Centre & Network News | Published on: 2022-12-19

Arista Networks has announced the expansion of its widely deployed 7050X4 Series, providing longevity and investment protection for enterprise compute and storage, colocation providers (Colo) and managed services providers (MSPs). Complementing the new 7050X4 Series, Arista also announced an......

Recent Questions - Network Engineering Stack Exchange | Published on: 2022-12-28

Make sure the configuration in the web interface has been saved/copied to the startup configuration storage on the flash memory of the switch. You may be seeing the switch configured in the web UI but it is not saved to the startup config so on command line when you look at the output of 'show......

Recent Questions - Network Engineering Stack Exchange | Published on: 2022-12-13

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Networking - Cisco Blogs | Published on: 2022-12-19

First, there was Cisco StackWise® Virtual, providing the ability to virtualize two connected switches into a single virtual switch. Now there’s the next generation of technology, developed by Cisco IOS XE engineers, with an array of new benefits. The biggest benefit is that this virtualization......

Dark Reading | Published on: 2022-12-09

Iranian-backed threat group MuddyWater has switched up its tactics — it's now using remote administration tool Syncro to take over target devices. Syncro is a full-featured remote access platform for managed service provider operations. The tool even offers a free 21-day trial. Prior to this......

Recent Questions - Network Engineering Stack Exchange | Published on: 2022-12-15

Is there an alternative to RouterOS and SwOS so that we can do all the things we can do in these 2 operating systems in its alternative? Can we have all the features that exist in Mikrotik (router and switch) in Linux distributions? The difficulty and complexity of the work is not a criterion......