NETWORKING

The cybersecurity industry is hiring. In November 2018, The New York Times reported that a total of 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs would be available but go unfilled by 2021. This employment gap increased in the year that followed. (ISC)2 estimated at the end of 2019 that it would take 4.07 million trained professionals to fill all available cybersecurity positions—a 62% increase of the global cybersecurity workforce. Things improved in 2020 when (ISC)2 learned that 700,000…

In 2023, 18.4 percent of all mobile connections in Germany will be based on 5G, according to Cisco’s Annual Internet Report. 5G mobile communications are already available in over 40 countries around the world. Despite this sharp increase in 5G, the majority of connections (69 percent) will continue to be covered by WLAN or fixed broadband networks. The advantages of this new generation of Wi-Fi 6 are higher speed, reduced latency times and, above all,…

Keeping employees connected and working productively has become the glue holding many businesses together during the COVID-19 pandemic. And with social distancing ruling out face-to-face meetings anytime soon, the need for new digital tools to help teams collaborate better has soared. In addition to mainstays like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, there are range of start-ups and scale-ups working on innovative ways to connect workers. Increasingly, collaboration isn’t just about team chat: people…

A set of vulnerabilities in TCP/IP stacks used by FreeBSD and three popular real-time operating systems designed for the IoT was revealed this week by security vendor Forescout and JSOF Research. The nine vulnerabilities could potentially affect 100 million devices in the wild. Nucleus NET, IPNet and NetX are the other operating systems affected by the vulnerabilities, which a joint report issued by Forescout and JSOF dubbed Name:Wreck. In a report on the vulnerabilities, Forescout…

Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 2 How did we go from 1G to 400G? The history of pluggable optics, a conversation with Ray Nering, part 2 of 4. Have you ever wondered why pluggable optics exist? Have you ever wondered what acronyms like QSFP, LR4, FEC, and PAM4 actually mean? In this episode I continue my conversation with my colleague Ray Nering. He explains to me how a lot of these came to be, starting from…

When talking with your customers about their cybersecurity strategy and investments, being outcome driven is key to their success. You’ll remember back in December we launched our 2021 Security Outcomes Study.  This report provided a ton of insightful data on the security outcomes our customers are looking to achieve. This week we launched our 2021 Security Outcomes Study for Small Midsize Businesses (SMBs). The approach with this study focuses on the 18% of participants who…

Introduction The Cisco Telemetry Broker celebrated its release earlier this month on April 1st. In my previous blog, The Rise of Telemetry Architecture, I discussed how the Cisco Telemetry Broker can help you develop a healthy telemetry architecture. This time around, I’ll be taking a look at what went into creating the product, how its roots in the Stealthwatch UDP Director helped to lay the groundwork for Telemetry Broker. To do this, I wanted to…

The world of finance has changed considerably in recent years. There has been an appearance of new dynamics, like the rise of fintech firms and the prioritization of worker safety and wellness. With recent events, there has also been a significant acceleration of existing digital transformation trends, like cloud services, digital banking, and virtual experts. Networking teams are left asking, how do we successfully support these accelerating trends? How do we support new hybrid physical/virtual…

With a few dozen press releases and blog posts combined, no one can say that Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is a low-key affair. Like last year’s show it is virtual, so many of the announcements are coming from CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s kitchen. Here is a rundown of the most pertinent announcements data-center folks will care about. Two Ampere 100 offshoots Nvidia’s flagship GPU is the Ampere A100, introduced last year. It is a powerful…

The transition to open RAN (Radio Access Network) based on interoperable lower layer splits is gaining significant momentum across the mobile industry. However, where best to split the open RAN is a complex compromise between radio unit (RU) simplification, support of advanced co-ordinated multipoint RF capabilities, consequential requirements on the fronthaul transport, including limitations on transport delay budgets as well as bandwidth expansion. To help in comparing alternative options, different splits have been assigned numbers…