[fancy_header3 variation=”steelblue”]Best Cat Videos of 2012[/fancy_header3] [dropcap3 variation=”orange”]I[/dropcap3] took a rare, but important intermission from technology related posts to write about the one and only thing cooler than computing, programming and networking, that is videos of cute cats and kittens! These are the best cat videos of 2012 that I remember watching this year. Pets… Continue reading Best Cat Videos of 2012
Year: 2012
Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review
[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review[/fancy_header3] Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review :In 2012 Google opened the doors up to some of it’s data centers in the typical colorful fashion we expect from Google. Hyper-scale content and cloud providers are ultra secretive about their trade secrets. Facebook’s Opencompute project is probably the… Continue reading Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review
Floodlight OpenFlow Controller: Using the Static Flow Entry Pusher
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]Floodlight OpenFlow Controller: Using the Static Flow Entry Pusher[/fancy_header3] Floodlight OpenFlow Controller: Using the Static Flow Entry Pusher: The first post in this tutorial can be found at Tutorial to Build a FloodLight SDN OpenFlow Controller . For those looking to do things with early SDN / OpenFlow controllers this post may be of some… Continue reading Floodlight OpenFlow Controller: Using the Static Flow Entry Pusher
Cacti Network Management Installation Tutorial
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]Cacti Network Management Installation Tutorial[/fancy_header3] Network management has to be, one of the most neglected pieces of networking. I am sure we all have our hypotheses as to why but that is for another day. This tutorial is for installing the latest stable release 0.8.8a, released on 04/29/12. I needed to proof Cacti and… Continue reading Cacti Network Management Installation Tutorial
Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators[/fancy_header3] [dropcap3 variation=”steelblue”]L[/dropcap3] ast week we looked at what the Network Service Provider Customers are looking for from vendors in the Network Virtualization Function (NFV). This week, let’s take a look at what the vendors were proposing in October at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.… Continue reading Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators
Open vSwitch Red Hat Installation
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]Open vSwitch Red Hat Installation[/fancy_header3] This is an updated tutorial for an Open vSwitch Red Hat Installation. It is a little tricky at the moment from a kernel-devel bug that has a broken symbolic link. I did a screencast also in case anyone gets stuck. Just let me know if I mistyped anything and… Continue reading Open vSwitch Red Hat Installation
Cisco acquisition of Cariden
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]Cisco acquisition of Cariden[/fancy_header3] [dropcap1 variation=”slategrey”]C[/dropcap1] isco announced today the intended acquisition of Cariden, a network management software company. Cisco will purchase the self-funded Cariden for $141 million. This deal is on the heels of two other Cisco acquisitions. The purchase of the WiFi company Meraki for $1.2 billion and the cloud software company Cloupia for $125 million.… Continue reading Cisco acquisition of Cariden
Bad Idea List: ITU UN Plan To Regulate The Internet
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange” ]Bad Idea List: ITU UN Plan To Regulate The Internet[/fancy_header3] The International Telecommunication Union Standardization (ITU-T) is no longer only interested in telecommunications standards, now they what to regulate the whole Internet. ITU-T is a part of the United Nation that had a leaked document over the summer that outlines their plans of regulating,… Continue reading Bad Idea List: ITU UN Plan To Regulate The Internet