IPv6

FOSDEM 2020: trends and analysis

As for the last 11 years Cisco sponsored the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, open source conference in the world with this year 872 events spread over 2 days. From a network point of view the important part is that the main SSID at the conference i…

August 26, 2019

DATA CENTER

VXLANv6 – VXLANv-what?

Virtual Extensible LAN (also known as VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. With the recent launch of Cisco’s VXLANv6, we’ve added the Cisco overlay, and run it over an IPv6 transport network…

March 18, 2019

THREAT RESEARCH

IPv6 unmasking via UPnP

Martin Zeiser and Aleksandar Nikolich authored this post EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With tools such as ZMap and Masscan and general higher bandwidth availability, exhaustive internet-wide scans of full IPv4 address space have become the norm after it was once impractical. Projects like Shodanand Scans.io agg…

February 5, 2019

DEVELOPER

FOSDEM 2019: a new view from the NOC

The first weekend of February is for me by now traditionally the FOSDEM weekend. FOSDEM is arguably the biggest Open Source Developers conference in the world with 742 lectures regarding various topic spread over the ULB university campus. The entrance is free and all presentations are recorded and…

November 27, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

2018 Complete VNI Forecast Update – What’s Trending?

2018 Complete VNI Forecast Update – What’s Trending? This week, we released our annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast, which covers global, regional, and country-level projections and trends associated with fixed and mobile networks. The full report includes information and an…

November 15, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Digital Communications in India: Global Aspirations, Local Economics

When I left India to work in the US (1997), little did I realize that I would reconnect with her in a way unimaginable then! At the time, less than 1% of India’s population had access to the Internet at home.  Since then, Internet connectivity in India has exploded, growing to 426 million users as o…

August 14, 2018

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S5|Ep.18: IPv6, are we there yet?

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by technologists for technologists. In this episode, Cisco Champion Scott Hogg discusses IPv6 with Tim Martin and Shannon McFarland and others at Cisco Live in Orlando. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode in SoundCloud Check out all Season 5 episodes in…

April 26, 2018

PARTNER

Making Every Drop Count for the Great Barrier Reef

From the time we’re young, we’re taught not to waste water. We cut down on our showers and turn off the faucet when we brush our teeth. But, we’re not always on the lookout for other ways we waste water—like leaks. These can be hard to spot across homes and businesses, at least not before they’ve wa…

January 26, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 33: Shannon McFarland

Are we all comfortable with the term “multicloud” yet? Used to be that we just had “the cloud,” then “public and private clouds,” then “hybrid cloud,” and now it seems that most companies are running a little bit of everything, so we needed a new term, and just like that we’ve arrived at the doorste…