Digital Map Modelling: IETF 117 Latest Developments
Back from a successful IETF 117 in San Francisco, where the (hallway) discussions were as interesting and intense as the pre-COVID meetings. Let me share some news regarding the Digital […]
Service Assurance For Intent-based Network: Two New IETF Standards Approved!
It’s obvious that networks become more and more complex these days … for a “network” definition that encompasses: the network itself, the cloud, the application and the end user environment, […]
YANG Push + Apache Kafka + Semantic = Network Visibility for Analytics
To solve the next challenge of autonomous networks, it’s not sufficient to configure YANG data models, it’s not sufficient to stream telemetry, it’s important to solve the issue and to […]
IETF Hackathon: SRv6 IPFIX Flow Monitoring
Just back from the IETF 115 in London last week. While the previous two IETF meetings in Vienna and in Philly were kind of “tentative” physical meetings in the post-COVID […]
Data Mesh Principles in the Networking World
The “Data Mesh” concepts are discussed in many different places recently, so I decided to read the “Data Mesh: Delivering Data-driven Value at Scale” reference book, by Zhamak Dehghani. “This […]
Exposing Routers Capabilities during Design and Implementation Times
Network automation is important, as I’ve been stressing for years. See for example this blog: “Automation is as good as your data models, their related metadata, your toolchain, and what you […]
Network Automation: the costly Data Models Integration and Mediation
A network administrator needs to monitor network and services as a whole, across multiple use cases, domains, and technologies. For example, a cloud-native video application, running in the VMs/containers on […]
Organizing your Training, Certifications, and Knowledge: Challenges & Opportunities
I applaud the vast quantity of knowledge and trainings posted on the Internet lately. Knowledge is shared to whomever is motivated to learn. No more excuses, as online trainings remove […]
The Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs of Intent-based Networking
The services become more and more complex, with a mix of networking (virtual networking) functions at the edge, the core, and the data center, and the combinations of networking, compute, […]
Networking Automation is as Good as …
Reflecting about automation lately, I realized that the messaging changed along the years, the more we learned about networking service automation. About 10 years ago, I used to make the […]