SocketPlane Excited to Be Joining Docker to Collaborate with Networking Ecosystem. At Socketplane we started out as four guys with a collectively strong belief in open source and open communities.
We aligned around a shared vision that we wanted to be a critical part of Docker’s once in a decade disruption. Now that we are part of the Docker team, we couldn’t be happier. We never looked to hedge our bets, our success was and obviously still is tied to the success of Docker. While there are many reasons that we decided to join the team, first and foremost Docker is unlike any other projects we have worked on in the past; the focus on user experience and simplicity is unmatched.
Our early work with Docker during the open network design sprints gave us clear indications that the Docker maintainers were interested in being good open source stewards for the networking community in a project with an already staggering community of users and contributors. The majority of users want networking to just work, but just as importantly, integrate into their existing networks. HTTP2 Expression of Interest from Doug Beaver on 2012-07-15 (ietf-http-wg from July to September 2012) 10 predictions about networking and Moore’s Law from Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun Microsystems cofounder and networking guru Andy Bechtholsheim predicted that networking chips — which determine how quickly you can surf the Internet — will keep following the path of progress that it has for decades.
Moore’s Law, the prediction in 1965 by Intel’s Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years, is still holding up. In the next 20 years, Bechtolsheim expects an improvement of 1,000 times in chip performance. We should all greet that with relief, since the $1 trillion-plus electronics economy depends on the continuous efficiencies gained from making chips smaller, faster, and cheaper. “We are in the Golden Age of networking, driven by Moore’s Law,” said Bechtolsheim in a keynote speech at the Linley Tech Processor conference in San Jose, Calif. Bechtolsheim is worth listening to. He also started Granite Systems, which Cisco acquired in 1996. “Optics, unfortunately, is not on Moore’s Law,” said Bechtolsheim.
Bechtolsheim predicted: 1. VoLTE Conference 2012. Submarine-cable-map-2012.telegeography.com. Why Developers Love OpenStack? July 17, 2012 Today I am at the OpenStack day at OSCON… spending the day chatting with developers and OpenStack community stakeholders. Here are some real-time thoughts, directly from the trenches of the open source ecosystem… There appears to be many disagreements about code maturity of the OpenStack projects and the number of OpenStack production deployments.
However, everybody agrees that OpenStack community of actively contributing developers is the largest of all open cloud initiatives. So what is the main attraction behind OpenStack that has propelled the developer community towards it over very credible and well-funded alternatives like Eucalyptus and Citrix CloudStack? Here is my take: Open source is not just about open codebase and a software license; it is a subculture of IT heavily driven by a do-it-yourself mentality.
First, let’s talk about vendor lock-in. One of the main values of the open source is in the ability to tweak and customize it to unique contexts. Private Networks, Dark Fiber, and Colocation. Protocol Overhead. How fast can you really go using a given media and protocol stack?
We examine how much bandwidth is left for applications. Ethernet Ethernet frame format: 6 byte dest addr 6 byte src addr [4 byte optional 802.1q VLAN Tag] 2 byte length/type 46-1500 byte data (payload) 4 byte CRC An excellent source of ethernet information is Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site. Notes: 48-bit (6 byte) ethernet address have a 24-bit "Organizationally Unique Identifier" (OUI) assigned by IEEE + a 24-bit number assigned by the vendor. Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo Frames Gigabit ethernet is exactly 10 times faster than 100 Mbps ethernet, so for standard 1500 byte frames, the numbers above all apply, multiplied by 10 (for 10GE, multiple by 100). An excellent paper on ATM overhead was written by John Cavanaugh of MSC. Cross River Fiber Completes the Construction of an Express Fiber Route Between Carteret and Newark New Jersey. Cross River Fiber, a New Jersey-based, boutique dark fiber optic and telecommunications solutions provider, announces the completion of the shortest commercially available fiber network route between 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret and 165 Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey.
This newly constructed network represents the most diverse and shortest linear fiber distance, which is 23.25 kilometers, between two key carrier hotels servicing the financial services markets. Cross River Fiber is a niche CLEC provider that designs, constructs and manages carrier independent dark fiber routes throughout the State of New Jersey. The new fiber network between Carteret and Newark is the first completed route of Cross River Fiber’s ultra low latency dark fiber network currently under construction in the Garden State. “The demand for high-quality, ultra low latency connectivity continues to grow,” adds Mike Sevret, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Cross River Fiber.