I was at FutureNet Expo in Boston last week where I saw a very jarring and interesting presentation made by John Day, a professor at Boston University. If you’d like to take a look at the presentation, you can find it here. John has been involved with some fairly significant projects that were responsible for the Internet we have today. He is also founding member of the Pouzin Society, an organization named for Louis Pouzin, the father of the datagram and designer of the first packet communications network. John and the Pouzin Society’s assertion is that it has been known for some time the Internet as it exists today is not properly built to scale and the backup plan is not going to be much better. Let’s examine why he and a few other folks in the know think this is true. Read more…
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I just read Request For Comments (RFC) 5540 today. 40 years ago this month on April 7th, 1969, RFC 1 regarding “Host Software” authored by Steve Crocker at UCLA was published. Read more…
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I’ve been wanting a Netbook for a while now but really couldn’t justify getting one. That is until I read you can install Apple’s OS X on them. Read more…
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So is anyone out there nervous about what networks are going to do on April 1st this year? Is Conficker going to rip apart the Internet? If you’re not aware of what Conficker is, here’s some detailed analysis from SRI about a worm that people think is going to unleash a nasty attack come April 1st. I think it’s nerve racking for the average network admin. We’ve already had to live through streaming events like the presidential inauguration of Barak Obama which caused a 3x increase over the average in transit consumption for my network that day. What is everyone out there doing to prepare for the next rumored incoming threat? Let’s hope it’s a non-starter like a lot of these scares have been in the past.
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So you’d have to be living under a rock (or else have a real life) not to see the coverage today on the Unified Computing System (UCS). I’m not going to go over specifications nor any of the technical aspects of what it does or does not do, I just want to ask… What the hell, Cisco? Why do we need another server platform? I have some ideas on what this is all about. Read more…
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The TCP/IP stack in Microsoft Vista was completely rewritten with the new OS. With that rebuild came some more support for use with evolving technologies like IPv6 and additional features to future proof it as much as possible. Well it appears that they have some more work to do to. Take a look at this informative piece from a Dr Plokta who has a strange load balancing issue with Vista clients due to Microsoft’s interpretation of RFC3484 aka Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Check out his interesting blog post at Imminent Death of the Net Predicted.
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The Nortel ERS 8600 seems like such a great platform based on the impression I’ve gotten from industry sources. I would think selling this division makes more sense than just killing it on the vine. It’s just sad to see a switch that had so much promise go the way of the dodo, which it looks like it certainly will. Hopefully PBB, PBB-TE and PLSB don’t die with it. See the article at Network World: Nortel curtailing Carrier Ethernet switch/router investment
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It’s amazing that these guys still get away with this time and again. The executives at companies sign the pink slips for thousands of people then think it’s OK to give themselves a bonus. I mean, what kind of people do that? How out of touch with humanity do you have to be? To each and every exec at Nortel taking this bonus, listen up. You are the one that deserved to be fired. The chances are more likely that you screwed things up to make your business bomb, not the hard working folks you just canned. I’m sure people would say this is more complicated than that, but I don’t see how it could be much more so. See the article at Light Reading: Nortel Loses Billions & Plans Bonuses
How do we stop this kind of crap? Anyone have ideas?
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I’m not sure how many of you have heard of the Cisco QuantumFlow processor in the new ASR 1000 routers, but it’s pretty neat to see where network processors are headed. Here’s a good article from Network World about it including charts, graphs, movies and all that jazz: The Cisco QuantumFlow Processor - The Engine in the ASR 1000 Series
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Sometimes we “Techies” have to take the law into our own hands. Read more…
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