An interesting battle is underway to capture the market for monitoring devices. The latest entry into the market is 5G RedCap. This is a technology that is currently under development in chipsets and ought to hit the market in 2025 and 2026.

What we have today is a single “boundary” in the IPv6 address plan, where the low order 64 bits are locally assigned as an interface identifier, and the high order 64 bits are in essence a network identifier, where the boundary between what constitutes locally defined site networks and globally visible networks is left to each network operator.

Almost all enterprises get their network services from a big telco, but we’re starting to see a kind of network populism developing, generating things like “altnets” and “neutral hosts.” Might these new players offer things that could break the big-telco hold on enterprise services, and might they create both savings and headaches for enterprise? Yes, and yes.

Let’s take an example of gradient aggregation across model copies. In a GPU cluster with Nd model copies and Nm GPUs in each model copy, Nm gradient aggregation threads will run in parallel at the end of each training iteration.

In August 2023, the Dataplane.org sensor network began observing a unique pattern of source address-spoofed DNS scanning activity. The most peculiar thing about these scans is that the source IP addresses were faked to a neighbor address of the target.

Yet despite the thorough disclosure practices that have been adopted in other industries, the information technology industry all too often regards itself as “special”. For decades software vendors have been able to sell faulty and insecure product without even a hint of liability, and the effort to improve the robustness of their products was often seen as an avoidable cost to the software vendor.

In the search for longer reach and higher capacity of optical systems we have devised a new set of non-linear mitigations, which include Nyquist subcarriers, Soft Decision Forward Error Correcting codes. Super-Gaussian PCS and Non-linear compensation.

Worth Reading: Enterprises struggle with network reliability, security
Wired network connectivity isn’t as reliable as U.S. businesses need, according to a recent survey, which shows that nearly 90% of respondents experienced between one to four hours of connectivity downtime per week due to network failure.

Vendor lock-in isn’t a binary, it’s more of a sliding scale, from complete freedom to do what you like to complete dependence on a single supplier. The more widely you use a supplier, the harder it is to move away.

In this episode of PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the European Union’s (EU) consideration of taking a direct role within the IETF. Network engineers, policymakers, and scientists from all around the world actively contribute to the IETF but the EU’s potential direct participation signifies a notable first in standards development.