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Monthly Archives: October 2014
What is MANO
The winds of change are blowing through the Internet in response to the introduction of SDN and NFV. Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises to upgrade the core with an order of magnitude change in throughput and programmability. Network Function Virtualization … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, engineering, hardware, MANO, network security, Networking, NFV, SDN, software
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What is Yang?
YANG is a way to model data that will be used by the NETCONF protocol and NETCONF is a standard way to manage network elements (NE’s). Programming languages have BNF’s that define how the languages work which allows programmers to … Continue reading
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Tagged C++ programming, communication, engineering, Management, NETCONF, Networking, oss, YANG
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Contributing to innovation
I’ve been doing a few small hardware projects lately and they have re-kindled my interest in building things for software to run on. I don’t really keep up with advancements in the hardware space, but I have a guy from … Continue reading
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Tagged engineering, entrepreneurship, hardware, hobbies, innovation, life, Retirement, start ups, tech companies, tech startups
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What is TOSCA?
TOSCA was brought up in an online discussion recently, so I had to go away and figure out what it is all about. TOSCA stands for Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications. I managed to extract the following from … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, engineering, innovation, oss, SDN, software, software development, tosca
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The Internet of Things
If you follow technology, you have probably heard of “The Internet of Things” or IOT. This term refers to a future where everything is connected to the Internet for some reason or another. I have no doubt that this will … Continue reading
To RIP or Not to RIP?
This post is going to be a networking refresher with a look at several routing protocols and their history. RIP or Router Information Protocol was initially described in RFC1058 published in 1988. There have been several updates / versions since … Continue reading
The next best thing to open source
We have all benefited from the availability of open source and many of us have contributed to that software pool. Commercial software development exists because it is a simple business model that keeps people employed, or because a specific software … Continue reading
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Tagged C++ programming, coding guidelines, engineering, innovation, SDN, software, software development, tech companies
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Round pegs in square holes
As I get older, some would say that I get more crusty [grin]. This may fall in that category, but my argument is that there is nothing wrong with simple and flexible. Put another way, “Round open source products do … Continue reading
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Tagged C++ programming, coding guidelines, engineering, rant, software, software development
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