EtherealMind

Government owns the cable but leaves revenue extraction to commercial companies to get competitive telecoms

Image compression reduces network requirements in a major way.

Promising development for open source voice codec in 700 bps.

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 the detail of all of these and Enterprise IT does none of them. Site Reliability Engineering – Medium:

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 market would adopt something that doesn’t have BGP in the solution but Facebook has the resources to develop something like this and prove […]

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 solution that seems likely to gain widespread adoption. You can mangle BGP configuration with an application and call it SDN. Heck, IXPs have […]

Another one from the biometrics-is-not-useful for authentication dumpster

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: “”