Arista EOS CloudVision
Arista EOS® CloudVision® provides a centralized point of visibility, configuration and control for Arista devices. The CloudVision controller is available as a virtual machine or physical...
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Real-time Wifi-Traffic Heatmap (source code GitHub: cod3monk/showfloor-heatmap) displays real-time WiFi traffic from SC17 (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking,...
View ArticleRESTful control of Cumulus Linux ACLs
The diagram above shows how the Cumulus Linux 3.4 REST API can be extended to include the functionality described in REST API for Cumulus Linux ACLs. Fast programmatic control of Cumulus Linux ACLs...
View ArticleIntranet DDoS attacks
As on a Darkling Plain: Network Survival in an Age of Pervasive DDoS talk by Steinthor Bjarnason at the recent NANOG 71 conference. The talk discusses the threat that the proliferation of network...
View ArticleOpenSwitch
OpenSwitch is a Linux Foundation project providing an open source white box control plane running on a standard Linux distribution. The diagram above shows the OpenSwitch architecture.This article...
View ArticlePrometheus and Grafana
Prometheus is an open source time series database optimized to collect large numbers of metrics from cloud infrastructure. This article will explore how industry standard sFlow telemetry streaming...
View ArticleOCP Summit 2018
Network telemetry was a popular topic at the recent OCP U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose, California, with an entire afternoon track of the two day conference devoted to the subject. Videos of the talks...
View ArticleMininet weathermap
Mininet dashboard is a real-time dashboard displaying traffic information from Mininet virtual networks. The screen capture demonstrates the real-time network weather map capability that was recently...
View ArticleFlow smoothing
The sFlow-RT real-time analytics engine includes statistical smoothing. The chart above illustrates the effect of different levels of smoothing when analyzing real-time sFlow telemetry.The traffic...
View ArticleReal-time baseline anomaly detection
The screen capture demonstrates the real-time baseline and anomaly detection based on industry standard sFlow streaming telemetry. The chart was generated using sFlow-RT analytics software. The blue...
View ArticleONOS traffic analytics
Open Network Operating System (ONOS) is "a software defined networking (SDN) OS for service providers that has scalability, high availability, high performance, and abstractions to make it easy to...
View ArticleONOS measurement based control
ONOS traffic analytics describes how to run the ONOS SDN controller with a virtual network created using Mininet. The article also showed how to monitor network traffic using industry standard sFlow...
View ArticlesFlow available on Juniper MX series routers
sFlow support on MX Series devices—Starting in Junos OS Release 18.1R1, you can configure sFlow technology (as a sFlow agent) on a MX Series device, to continuously monitor traffic at wire speed on all...
View ArticleSDKLT
Logical Table Software Development Kit (SDKLT) is a new, powerful, and feature rich Software Development Kit (SDK) for Broadcom switches. SDKLT provides a new approach to switch configuration using...
View ArticlesFlow available on Juniper PTX series routers
sFlow functionality introduced on the PTX1000 and PTX10000 platforms—Starting in Junos OS Release 18.2R1, the PTX1000 and PTX10000 routers support sFlow, a network monitoring protocol for high-speed...
View ArticleVisualizing real-time network traffic flows at scale
Particle has been released on GitHub, https://github.com/sflow-rt/particle. The application is a real-time visualization of network traffic in which particles flow between hosts arranged around the...
View ArticleExtremeXOS 22.5.1 adds support Broadcom ASIC table utilization statistics
ExtremeXOS 22.5.1 is now available! describes added support in sFlow for "New data structures to support reporting on hardware/table utilization statistics." The feature is available on Summit X450-G2,...
View ArticleRDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
RDMA over Converged Ethernet is a network protocol that allows remote direct memory access (RDMA) over an Ethernet network. One of the benefits running RDMA over Ethernet is the visibility provided by...
View ArticleNorthbound Networks Zodiac GX
Mininet is widely used to emulate software defined networks (SDNs). Mininet flow analytics describes how standard sFlow telemetry, from Open vSwitch used by Mininet emulate the network, provides...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office 365
Office 365 IP Address and URL Web service describes a simple REST API that can be used to query for the IP address ranges associated with Microsoft Office 365 servers.This information is extremely...
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