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An open disaggregated programmable infrastructure vision
Taking the new technical possibilities that appeared in the last years, I developed more and more my personal vision on the perfect open disaggregated programmable Telco CO/SP and Data Center infrastructure architecture. This post is a first in a series describing this personal vision.
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P4 SmartNIC stories: Intel
This year there where a lot of interesting SmartNIC announcements, not only from the usual NIC vendors but also from some new kids on the block. What is happening in the previously sleepy NIC space? In this blog I will start with analyzing Intel.
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An Open P4 based virtual network switch
In this article I will explain why I think there is room for a P4vSwitch 'library' implementation. Some in-depth information about XDP and AF_XDP is given. It then shows my preferred P4vSwitch architecture and will give a peek into my next blog about my POC implementation of a P4vSwitch.
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Updated website!!!
It had to happen: we updated our website and in the process we also implemented the newest Ghost blogging engine...
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BGP – an SDN federation interface?
Within the IETF NVO3 workgroup, they are discussing to use an existing protocol (MP-BGP) for the federation of NVA (Network Virtualization Authorities or controllers, so essentially communication between overlay controller domains). This is not strange as MP-BGP is also used for this within EVPN and IPVPN over MPLS standards. In
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Google gives insight in its DC Network
Google presented some material at ACM Sigcomm that gives us some insight into the setup of its data center networking technologies.
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Segment routing, MPLS and the adoption of SDN.
Segment routing could change the way MPLS networks function and facilitate the adoption of SDN. Find out how it works and why you should know more about it.
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Network Virtualization: Overlay and Underlay Design
Lately, there has been a plethora of blogs and discussions around the viability of network virtualization and overlay networks. This blog post is an attempt to bring some clarity in this debate.