IPFIX 25 Years Anniversary… and a Second Life These Days!
This summer will mark the IPFIX 25 years anniversary, the famous IP Flow Information eXport protocol. The first flow-related BoF (Birds of a Feather) took place in London in summer […]
Knowledge Graph as Preparation for LLMs, the Logical Next Step in Networking Data Modeling!
While the LLMs will become commodities, and therefore will come and go (do I need to mention DeepSeek these days, or you have been living in a cave lately?), what […]
IETF/IAB Workshop on the Next Era of NEtwork Management OPerationS (NEMOPS)
UPDATE: here is the link to the operator survey! UPDATE: deadline extended till 17 November 2024 The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development […]
IETF Rough Consensus and Running Code
Back from an intensive IETF week (actually 2 days of hackathon during the week-end followed by the actual IETF week), it’s time to reflect! Maybe less participants on site, but […]
Brand New IETF Working Group: Network Management Operations (NMOP)
One paragraph summary (TL;DR) of this blog: there is a new cool NMOP just working group just created, with 4 important operational topics (YANG-Push & Kafka, anomaly detection and incident […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]