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 […]
Automation
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brand new book! Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI
Happy to share this brand new book about data model-driven management with YANG, the first one on the topic I believe. Enjoy reading, it’s full of existing technologies and if […]