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Article: Colliding Communities, Cloud Native, and Telecommunications Standards

InfoQ Articles

The 5g broadband cellular network standard by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Service Function Chain RFC (request for comments) are examples.

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SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

Confluent

This often leads users to deploy expensive distributed transaction protocols like eXtended architecture (XA). This is done through the event sourcing pattern, where the communication protocol (the event) is also the persistence mechanism (the event log). He has also been an adjunct faculty member teaching graduate classes.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) routes traffic over telecommunications networks using short path labels instead of longer network addresses. BGP The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a protocol for exchanging routing information between different autonomous systems (ASes) on the Internet.

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News in Networking: Verizon-Disney Rumors, ‘Most Promising’ 5G Operators, and UN List of Security Gaps

Kentik

HTTP and DNS in a 5G World (Network World) HTTP and DNS may be “household name protocols,” according to Network World contributor and wireless wiz Alan Carlton, but NFV and MEC could change that. Carlton notes, “HTTP will need to become more streamlined and lightweight to meet the high throughput and strict delay requirements of 5G.”

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Talking WAN Transformation and Managed Services with Virgin’s Network and Security Architect Frankie Stroud

CATO Networks

Before VA I was with Optus and a few other domestic telecommunications companies. You would certainly need someone who understands the concepts, the protocols, but not necessarily how the platform goes about driving changes throughout the environment. So they have an SD-WAN environment plus one which is driven by BGP protocol routes.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In November 2018, MainOne, a large telecommunications company in Nigeria, leaked routes received from a number of its peers , including major content distribution networks, to its upstream transit providers. In particular, communication was still (at least in theory) protected by the TLS protocol, which led to the security warning.

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IoT Security Standards and Initiatives

CATO Networks

The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force , under the auspices of the National Telecommunications Information Administration, is reviewing the benefits, challenges, and potential roles for the government in advancing IoT.

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