YANG-Push & Apache Kafka Integration
For a couple of IETF meetings, the initiative around “YANG-Push & Kafka integration” has been growing and growing, over the last few IETFs there have been packed-room side meetings on […]
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SRv6 IPFIX Flow Monitoring with RFC9487
If you are a network engineer, you should know about Segment Routing and in particular Segment Routing version 6 (SRv6). If you have been living in a cave for a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
In the End, It’s all about People
When you travel frequently, there are certain things that you know. You don’t recall how you learn them, but you just know. For example, half asleep from the jet-lag, walking […]
From NetFlow to IPFIX via PSAMP: 13 years of Standardization Explained
The first flow-related BoF (birds of a feather) took place in London in summer 2001 during the IETF meeting 51. A few months later, the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) […]