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Dictionary: optic boom
optic boom A flash produced when electrons move faster than light, akin to the boom of supersonic jets. Breaking the “light barrier” sounds like sci-fi, but physicists say it can happen in graphene...
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Response: Engineers know how to party! Start your own celebration with...
I approve of this positive, supportive and realistic representation of network engineers. Engineers know how to party! Start your own celebration with Mellanox Ethernet solutions – YouTube: “” The post...
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Response: Japan researchers warn of fingerprint theft from ‘peace’ sign
Another one from the Biometrics is not useful for authentication dumpster: The NII researchers were able to copy fingerprints based on photos taken by a digital camera three metres (nine feet) away...
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Video: Business Tech News for January 11, 2017
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=poIBwW1gI3E Arista, NetBeez, Viptela, Silver Peak, Velocloud, ETSI, Extreme Networks are included in today’s press release round up. Packet Pushers Youtube Channel –...
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Response: Coming soon with Cumulus Linux 3.2: EVPN
Increasingly coming to the view that BGP-EVPN is a big deal. Neither vendors or customers can imagine their networks without a 30 year old routing protocol so this is the half-pregnant, half-arsed...
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Response: Introducing Open/R — a new modular routing platform | Engineering...
Although this post is from May 2016, Petr Lapukhov at Facebook outlines an method to replace routing protocols with a message bus to enable real network applications. I’m doubtful that wider networking...
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Response: Site Reliability Engineering – Medium
Four rules for SRE: Always Know When It’s Broken Avoid Global Changes Moving Traffic Is Faster Than Fixing Make Your Mitigations Normal Good rules, can’t argue with this as starting point. The devil in...
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Response: Codec 2 700C | Rowetel
Acceptable quality open source voice codec in 700 bps My endeavor to produce a digital voice mode that competes with SSB continues. For a big chunk of 2016 I took a break from this work as I was...
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Arris in bid for Brocade network unit: sources | Reuters
Arris wants to buy the Ruckus wireless business. Arris is looking to buy Brocade’s network edge business, which is the most valuable of the assets being sold, according to the sources. Arris is not in...
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Video: Fark Google on TWIT
I was a guest On This Week In Tech 357 yesterday and they extracted this piece where I am being critical of media companies who can’t run their businesses properly. Its one of my better rants about...
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Response: Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning
Image compression reduces network requirements in a major way. Smaller files means less bandwidth Less round trips for faster page rendering reduces load on network function like proxies, IDS, etc. And...
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Musing: ITC rejects de facto standard defense (337-TA-944, Cisco v. Arista) |...
Detailed but accessible legal review of Cisco vs Arista case. Dated July 2016 so it doesn’t cover the latest developments but provides a lot of insight into the legal. My current view on this issue:...
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Dictionary: Despondent
Despondent: a deep dejection arising from the conviction of the uselessness of further effort. A perfect word of current state of Enterprise IT. Definition of despondent : feeling or showing extreme...
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Avaya Inc. Files for Chapter 11 Protection
Not much of a surprise, the Avaya business has been doing OK but the company has a large about of debt that is dragging it down. Chapter 11 likely to allow restructuring of debt and plan a path...
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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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