Worth Reading: Trust in Network Systems

31 October 2023


How can you be assured that your network infrastructure us running on authentic platforms, both hardware and software, and its operation has not been compromised in any way?

Worth Reading: BGP Errors

30 October 2023


What happens if just one implementation of BGP “recognises” a particular transitive attribute and all other implementations do not?

Worth Reading: How Long Before AI Servers Take Over The Market?

30 October 2023


So after two years of not seeing the server trackers from either IDC or Gartner, when we happened to be searching for server forecasts on Google this week and we saw this page with lots of juicy data spanning from 2022 through 2027 from IDC, we got out the trusty Excel spreadsheet and went to work.

Worth Reading: Treat generative AI like a burning platform and secure it now

26 October 2023


In the rush to deploy generative AI, many organizations are sacrificing security in favor of innovation, IBM warns.

Worth Reading: Under the hood of fault tolerant private cloud network

26 October 2023


Routing, Elastic Load Balancing, Firewalling, NAT, DHCP, and VPN are the minimum network services required by private cloud.

Worth Reading: The ICANN Experiment–Lessons From NewCo

25 October 2023


As ICANN turns 25 and I turn 51, I realize that I have literally spent more than ½ of my life working in the domain name industry and with the first multistakeholder experiment originally called NewCo (later called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”).

Worth Reading: Cyber Independence

25 October 2023


There was a time, some decades ago now, when the Internet was seen as a novel space, unpopulated with the adornments of the physical world. Inhabitants of this new Cyberspace felt that they could define their own terms of engagement, equipped with an eloquent declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

Worth Reading: Carrier Ethernet OAM

24 October 2023


For those new to it, Carrier Ethernet supports a variety of transport technologies including MPLS, SDH / DWDM, double-tagged Ethernet and so on, and selection of these will result in either additional service benefits or certain limitations.

Worth Reading: Connected Cars and the Privacy Debacle

24 October 2023


But they are also massive personal information collection engines, stockpiling information about you from your use of the car, the car’s app as well as 3rd party services such as Sirius XM or Google maps.

Worth Reading: Networking and security teams tasked to converge, collaborate

23 October 2023


Cloud computing, hybrid work, and remote connectivity are amplifying the need for networking and security teams to be in lockstep. Increasingly, enterprises are considering consolidating the two groups – or at least boosting collaboration between teams, according to research from Cato Networks.