5G? IoT? Fiber Deep? 600G? We Are ready for networking at 2019!
For years we have all been talking about the emergence of 5G services, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new high-capacity, low-latency network architectures that will be needed to support the resulting onslaught of bandwidth. Higher-speed data rates are critical to electronic evolution and revolution.
Here are some of my collection of newest trends and predictions for year 2018. have picked and mixed here quotations from many articles (linked to source) with some of my own additions to make this posting.
5G: The most newsworthy stories in wireless today are all about 5G. In 2019, we enter a cautious, early-adoption phase of this next generation of wireless technology. 2019 will be the year when we see the first commercial networks turning on and first handsets arriving in the market. Only a small number of users will get a first taste of 5G in specific geographic locations, using specific applications, none of which are ubiquitous or cost-optimized. For more details read my 5G trends for 2019 posting.
Deep fiber: Deep deployment of fiber optics into national network infrastructure might not be as glamorous as the eagerly anticipated launch of fifth-generation mobile networks (5G); however, it is just as important—maybe even more important. Wired broadband access supports as much as 90 percent of all internet traffic even though the majority of traffic ultimately terminates on a wireless device. Wireline and wireless networks are driving new architectures to support the move from 4G LTE to 5G infrastructure. In fact, 5G relies heavily on fiber infrastructure. Service providers in the access market are talking about the evolution of their plants to a Fiber Deep (FD) Architecture. FD architectures move the optical node (the optical-to-electrical conversion point) deeper into the network and closer to the subscriber. This means shorter copper, faster speed, more capacity and reduction in maintenance cost for both cable TV network and telephone line based access networks.
Ethernet: Faster Ethernet speeds are taken to use. These transitions are driven by the increasing global IP traffic. Hyper-scalers and service providers are moving from 100GbE to 400GbE Ethernet rates and beyond. In this speed development 56Gb/s And 112Gb/s SerDes Matter.
TSN: Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of standards under development by the Time-Sensitive Networking task group of the IEEE 802.1 working group. TSN standards documents that are specified by IEEE 802.1 can be grouped into three basic key component categories that are time synchronization; scheduling and traffic shaping; selection of communication paths, path reservations and fault-tolerance. Industrial Ethernet networks embrace time-sensitive networking (TSN) technology to integrate operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT).
SDN: Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to cloud computing that facilitates network management and enables programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring. SD-WAN applies similar technology to a wide area network (WAN). SD-WAN allows companies to build higher-performance WANs using lower-cost and commercially available Internet access, enabling businesses to partially or wholly replace more expensive private WAN connection technologies such as MPLS.
IPv6: IPv4 and IPv6 are the two Protocols Run the Internet in 2019. The long-forecasted day the internet runs out of addresses has arrived and it marks a paradigm shift in the internet’s evolution. Though IPv6 has been available globally since 2012, it has seen a slow, if increasing, adoption rate. The migration to IPv6 is inevitable but will take time during that both systems are in use. In many networks a notable amount of traffic is already IPv6.
New Internet protocols: Internet security gets a boost with TLS 1.3. Also HTTP is in process of switching to a protocol layered on top of UDP. Today’s HTTP (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2) are all layered on top of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) that is not very optimal in today’s applications as SSL over TCP requires subsequent round trips to establish the encrypted connection.
IoT: The IoT world is here, and the level and rate of convergence is increasing in volume and velocity. We will see the evolution of converged networks for IoT applications in mind. Network convergence (version 2.0) is here with changes and improvements made since the first converged network (Convergence 1.0). TIA TR-42 (Telecommunications Cabling Systems ANSI/TIA-568 family), BICSI (TDMM and others) and proprietary or third documents must adapt and adjust.
PoE: The IEEE 802.3bt standard, approved by the IEEE Standards Association Board on September 27, 2018, included some significant enhancements especially for LED lighting systems. This specification allows for up to 90W of delivered power for cable lengths of up to 100m through the use of all four pairs of wires.
Trade wars: It seem that there is a high tech “trade war” between USA and China. It affects specifically networking business. Big Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE are have received sanctions and their products are not wanted by many countries citing their business practices and potential security nightmares. For example Japan to halt buying Huawei, ZTE equipment and Huawei has been under fire in UK, just to mention examples. It seems that the business that is lost by Huawei and ZTE could benefit Ericsson and Nokia in the 5G base station markets for short term.
Security: The internet is going to hell and its creators want your help fixing it. All agree on one thing however: Right now there is a serious battle for heart and minds, the future of the internet and global society itself. There seems to be need for a conference to address the fact that people increasingly see tech as a threat and no longer as a pure force for good. Government set to revise internal rules on procurement to protect national cybersecurity. Your DNS might be broken, and you don’t even know it. Some DNS old hacks gets thrown out of use by February 1st, 2019.
WiFi: WiFi technology gets new marketing naming. The numerical sequence includes: Wi-Fi 6 to identify devices that support 802.11ax technology, Wi-Fi 5 to identify devices that support 802.11ac technology, Wi-Fi 4 to identify devices that support 802.11n technology.
Faster mobile: Mobile networks are getting faster in many countries. Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world. Average data speeds on mobile networks now outpace customer’s Wi-Fi connection, on average, in 33 countries. That’s the The State of Wifi vs Mobile Network Experience as 5G Arrives.
Energy efficiency: We need to develop more energy efficient networking technologies. Today, information and communication technologies globally consume 8% of electricity and doubles every year.
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Optical transceivers
– turning data into light
https://www.smartoptics.com/article/optical-transceivers-turning-data-into-light/?utm_campaign=What%20is%20WDM&utm_source=hs_automation&utm_medium=email&utm_content=59890022&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9hEYMGTTnEw-xzhykw_HQlRw-I0hOf1c_JIl0i42jBaU1rN6hvh6V6zFcbBSHAFPrK3fN1bKdl8PbtfQ0HSLSc3kLAtDSqtgzCdBjDWP-6MB0E7PE&_hsmi=59890022
In the first article of our series on WDM, Getting on the road with dark fiber, we compared a fiber optic network to a powerful multi-lane expressway, capable of transporting traffic between various sites. And just as we have traffic rules for driving, different traffic rules are needed to transport our optical traffic. These are called protocols. Below, we describe the three key protocols for storage, data and voice, respectively.
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Why It’s Almost Impossible to Extract Huawei From Telecom Networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVUUspncf4E
Allies are under U.S. pressure to shun Huawei. But the company’s prevalence in existing telecom networks and dominance in 5G technology make that nearly impossible.
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See also Mediagazer
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
FTC launches a broad inquiry into privacy practices of ISPs, orders seven ISPs including AT&T and Verizon to provide nonpublic info about handling consumer data — The commission wants to know what data your ISP is collecting about you — The Federal Trade Commission today announced …
FTC announces inquiry into the privacy practices of broadband providers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282520/ftc-ajit-pai-tom-wheeler-fcc-att-verizon-tmobile
The commission wants to know what data your ISP is collecting about you
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UK cyber security officials report Huawei’s security practices are a mess
Huawei never delivered on changes promised years ago, National Cybersecurity Centre reports.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/uk-cyber-security-officials-report-huaweis-security-practices-are-a-mess/
Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2019
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-security-evaluation-centre-oversight-board-annual-report-2019
The fifth annual report for the Cabinet Secretary from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre Oversight Board.
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UK report blasts Huawei for network security incompetence
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/uk-report-blasts-huawei-for-network-security-incompetence/
UK watchdog slams Huawei over ‘serious’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Report comes weeks before UK selection of 5G vendors
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285185/huawei-uk-government-cybersecurity-report-5g-rollout-security-concerns
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Huawei’s equipment poses ‘significant’ security risks, UK says
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/huawei-equipment-poses-significant-security-risks-uk-says.html
The findings give weight to warnings from U.S. officials who have argued Huawei’s networking equipment could be used for espionage by the Chinese government.
British officials stopped short of calling for a ban of Huawei’s 5G telecommunications equipment.
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Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/huawei_mirai_router_vulnerability/
ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up
Exclusive Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only two models rather than all of its products that used the same flawed firmware.
Years later, those unpatched Huawei gateways, still vulnerable and still in use by broadband subscribers around the world, were caught up in a Mirai-variant botnet that exploited the very same hole flagged up earlier by the ISP’s review team.
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Gina Narcisi / CRN:
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the company is on track to have software and services account for 30% of its revenue over the next three years
Cisco CEO: ‘People Didn’t Think We Could Do’ Network Subscriptions
https://www.crn.com/news/networking/cisco-ceo-people-didn-t-think-we-could-do-network-subscriptions
As Cisco transforms its business model to focus first on software and services, the IT giant wants to encourage more partners to go after more ‘holy grail’ recurring revenue opportunities, the executive tells CRN.
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Report: a Facebook project called “Catalina”, which ended last year, explored shuttling SSDs filled with data to users in remote areas through bird-sized drones
Facebook explored using a fleet of tiny, bird-sized drones to boost mobile internet speeds
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/29/18287404/facebook-drones-internet-catalina-project-aquila-connectivity
The secretive codenamed ‘Catalina’ project was ended a year ago
Facebook has for years explored ways to help improve mobile connectivity and bring more of the population in developed countries get online, ostensibly a humanitarian effort but more of a thinly veiled ploy to bring more people into its app ecosystem. That effort’s most visible projects have been Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, with its Free Basics and Express Wi-Fi offerings for fast-growing smartphone markets, and the discontinued Aquila project, which sought to fly large, solar-powered drones that could beam down internet much like Alphabet’s high-flying Loon helium balloons.
But Facebook was working on another method in secret that involved much smaller, bird-sized fixed-wing aircraft that could be used to boost smartphone data speeds, according to a report today from Business Insider. The project, codenamed “Catalina” after an island off the Southern California coast notable for once using a carrier pigeon network, was discontinued about a year ago, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to BI. But its existence illustrates that Facebook was looking at connectivity through a variety of lenses.
BI reports that the drones would be closer to the size of a sparrow, making them almost pocket-sized. The goal would not be to beam down a functioning internet connection to completely remote areas, but instead to augment existing, 2G-level connections to allow smartphone users to stream video and perform other more data-intensive tasks. It’s not clear how exactly that would have worked.
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Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices
HCSEC pulls no technical punches in annual report
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/hcsec_huawei_oversight_board_savaging_annual_report/
Britain’s Huawei oversight board has said the Chinese company is a threat to British national security after all – and some existing mobile network equipment will have to be ripped out and replaced to get rid of said threat.
“The work of HCSEC [Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre]… reveals serious and systematic defects in Huawei’s software engineering and cyber security competence,” said the HCSEC oversight board in its annual report, published this morning.
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Consider the Pigeon, a Surprisingly Capable Technology
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/consider-the-pigeon-a-surprisingly-capable-technology
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Juha Saarinen: The real reason Huawei shouldn’t be in 5G networks
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12218590
Big clues as to the real reason for Western countries’ reluctance and outright bans on Huawei supplying equipment to 5G networks dropped last week when a report that’s hugely embarrassing for the Chinese tech giant was published in Britain.
The report from oversight board for Britain’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre makes it clear that clever, secret backdoors in the Chinese company’s equipment is the least of anyone’s worries.
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AT&T and Ericsson demonstrate world’s first network slice with lifecycle management based on ONAP
https://markets.financialcontent.com/pennwell.cabling/news/read/37978591/at%26t_and_ericsson_demonstrate_world%27s_first_network_slice_with_lifecycle_management_based_on_onap
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has collaborated with AT&T to deploy the world’s first lifecycle management based on ONAP software for network slices at various enterprise locations. The physical radio and virtualized core network elements were configured, and the virtual network elements orchestrated, in an automated manner to be part of the targeted network slices.
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Reliable, low-cost Wi-Fi connectivity is the norm — and an expectation
https://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2019/03/biju-oommen-grandview-wifi-blog.html?cmpid=&utm_source=enl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cim_data_center_newsletter&utm_content=2019-04-02&eid=289644432&bid=2409383
Within the networking industry, we are seeing a tremendous growth in Wi-Fi devices and applications. Freedom to compute and communicate wherever and whenever you want is a huge perk, especially when you have reliable Wi-Fi connectivity.
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Michelle Toh / CNN:
MIT suspends ties with Huawei and ZTE over US investigations and says any projects working with China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia will merit additional review
MIT suspends ties with China’s Huawei and ZTE
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/04/tech/mit-huawei-zte/
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hitting pause on its relationships with Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE.
MIT, one of the top universities in the United States, said the move followed a new review of international projects or partnerships that pose an “elevated risk.”
“MIT is not accepting new engagements or renewing existing ones with Huawei and ZTE or their respective subsidiaries due to federal investigations regarding violations of sanction restrictions,”
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Alan Boyle / GeekWire:
Amazon confirms Project Kuiper, its new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to provide broadband around the world
Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-project-kuiper-broadband-satellite/
Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, newly uncovered filings show.
The effort, code-named Project Kuiper, follows up on last September’s mysterious reports that Amazon was planning a “big, audacious space project” involving satellites and space-based systems. The Seattle-based company is likely to spend billions of dollars on the project, and could conceivably reap billions of dollars in revenue once the satellites go into commercial service.
Amazon could face fierce competition from SpaceX, OneWeb and other high-profile players.
The filings lay out a plan to put 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit — including 784 satellites at an altitude of 367 miles (590 kilometers); 1,296 satellites at a height of 379 miles (610 kilometers); and 1,156 satellites in 391-mile (630-kilometer) orbits.
In response to GeekWire’s inquiries, Amazon confirmed that Kuiper Systems is actually one of its projects.
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Swarm Signs Up Ford, Vodafone, and Others for Its Satellite IoT Service
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/swarm-signs-up-ford-vodafone-and-others-for-its-satellite-iot-service
You might think that being handed a whopping US $900,000 fine by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for surreptitiously launching four illegal satellites would scare off potential partners.
Not in Silicon Valley, where wrestling with regulators is more of a badge of honor than a mark of shame.
Automotive giant Ford, wireless multinational company Vodafone, Stanford University, and more than a dozen startups lined up this week to sing the praises of Swarm Technologies
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Four-Channel Oscilloscope Option for BER Tester Delivers All-in-One Test System
https://www.eeweb.com/profile/eeweb/news/four-channel-oscilloscope-option-for-ber-tester-delivers-all-in-one-test-system
Anritsu Corp. has added a four-channel sampling oscilloscope option for the BERTWave MP2110A, which integrates the functionality of a multi-channel oscilloscope and a bit error rate tester (BERT) in an-all-in-one unit
The new tester combo supports 100G/400G optical module manufacturers that need to lower their testing costs as backbone networks and data centers move to 100G Ethernet, and in the future 400G Ethernet, in anticipation of 5G communications.
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VERKON UUSI MUOTO – MATKAOPAS YRITYSVERKKOJEN TULEVAISUUTEEN
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Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613138/russia-wants-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet-heres-what-that-really-means/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=add_this&utm_content=2019-04-05
The plan is going to be tricky to pull off, both technically and politically, but the Kremlin has set its sights on self-sufficiency.
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History
Insane Photos From The Days When Thousands Of Cables Crowded The Skies
http://canyouactually.com/city-wires/
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Pigeon-Based ‘Feathernet’ Still Wings-Down Fastest Way to Transfer Massive Amounts of Data
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-fastest-way-of-transferring-lots-of-data
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BIDIRECTIONAL IP WITH NEW PACKET RADIO
https://hackaday.com/2019/03/30/bidirectional-ip-with-new-packet-radio/
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Foreign Policy:
How Huawei, once an upstart using licensed and sometimes stolen tech to undercut rivals, became a telecom infrastructure juggernaut during the 4G upgrade cycle
The Improbable Rise of Huawei
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/the-improbable-rise-of-huawei-5g-global-network-china/
How did a private Chinese firm come to dominate the world’s most important emerging technology?
A decade ago, in 2009, the Swedish phone giant Teliasonera set out to build one of the world’s first fourth-generation wireless networks in some of Scandinavia’s most important—and technologically savviest—cities. For Oslo, Norway, Teliasonera made an audacious and unexpected choice of who would build it: Huawei, a Chinese company with little presence outside China and some other developing markets.
The same year, Huawei landed an even bigger and more unexpected contract to completely rebuild and replace Norway’s mobile phone network, which had first been built by the global standard-bearers: Ericsson of Sweden and Nokia of Finland. The Chinese upstart eventually completed the world’s most ambitious network swap ahead of schedule and under budget.
To many in the wireless industry, it was a coming-of-age moment for Huawei, and for China.
More important, Huawei has, by most accounts, taken the lead in the race to develop one of the modern world’s most important technologies: fifth-generation mobile telephony.
5G will be, simply put, the central nervous system of the 21st-century economy—and if Huawei continues its rise, then Beijing, not Washington, could be best placed to dominate it.
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By spying on Huawei, U.S. found evidence against the Chinese firm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-tech/u-s-conducted-secret-surveillance-of-chinas-huawei-prosecutors-say-idUSKCN1RG29T
U.S. authorities gathered information about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd through secret surveillance that they plan to use in a case accusing the Chinese telecom equipment maker of sanctions-busting and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The United States has been pressuring other countries to drop Huawei from their cellular networks, worried its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying. The company says the concerns are unfounded.
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This week in Huawei – the Chinese company reported 2018 revenue of more than $105 billion, up almost 20% from 2017, and profit of more than $8 billion, a 25% gain. The privately held company has released audited financial results as a gesture toward openness
With global competition for 5G wireless networks limited to Ericsson and Nokia, Huawei is poised to capture significant market share in 5G infrastructure. “Commercial power almost directly translates to standard-setting power
Source: https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-iot-security-auto-39/
Huawei Shrugs Off U.S. Clampdown With a $100 Billion Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/technology/huawei-annual-earnings.html
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/04/09/dna-siirtymassa-norjalaiskomentoon/
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NBASE-T Alliance and Ethernet Alliance unite through merger
https://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2019/04/nbaset-ethernet-alliance-merger.html?cmpid=&utm_source=enl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cim_data_center_newsletter&utm_content=2019-04-08&eid=289644432&bid=2413226
The NBASE-T Alliance, an industry-wide cooperative effort focused on enabling the development and deployment of products that support 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet, and the Ethernet Alliance today announced that they have signed an agreement to consolidate both groups’ activities under the Ethernet Alliance.
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/04/10/nopeisiin-verkkoihin-erikoisoskilloskooppi/
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Karl Bode / The Verge:
White House promises to veto the Save the Internet Act, a bill to restore net neutrality and undo the FCC’s 2017 repeal decision, justifying it with fuzzy math
The White House is using fuzzy math to justify net neutrality veto
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18302113/net-neutrality-veto-white-house-donald-trump-save-the-internet-act-broadband
Broadband really is getting faster, but it has nothing to do with the end of net neutrality
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OIF: Standards Ensure Communications Interoperability
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334541
EE Times: What projects are active now and what do you expect to see in the next few years?
Tracy: The current projects fall into four areas:
The common electrical I/O (CEI) work, which defines the electrical channels that connect to optical modules. Right now, that’s 112 Gbps. Initial CEI work started at 6 Gbps and 10 Gbps in 2002 and continues today addressing new rates. We’re currently working on standards for 112-Gbps serial electrical links. We’ve learned over the years that timing of these developments is important. An example of being too soon might occur when the printed-circuit, connector, or SerDes industries have not yet developed their base technologies to meet the needs of a new generation of high-speed electrical interfaces. In another project for the same data rate with different reach, the timing was just right; the standard was quickly adopted.
400ZR work (400G ZR), which will develop standards for interoperable coherent optics. It will provide telcos and data centers with the ability to integrate coherent optics with Ethernet.
FlexE (Flex Ethernet) is seeing significant interest for 5G cellular because of its ability to slice network capacity for demand allocation.
Software-defined network (SDN) for transport control planes that enable multi-carrier SDN operation.
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Juniper Networks liberates Contrail SD-WAN from its boxen to frolic among the clouds
aaS version of software promises faster deployments
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/09/juniper_contrail_sdwan_as_a_service/
Juniper Networks has recast Contrail SD-WAN as a fluffy white service for software-defined networking in branch offices, dragging itself into the 21st century tech world.
The cloud-based version is paid for annually or via a multi-year subscription.
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Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports massively overstate broadband adoption
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/?tpcc=ECFB2019
Despite $22 billion in government spending, the company says, “adoption has barely budged.”
FCC report suggests that broadband, as it is currently defined, is not currently available to around 25 million people. Sounds reasonable. But Microsoft’s data says that some 163 million people “do not use the internet at broadband speeds.”
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NASA Wants to Place Calls to Deep Space With X-Rays
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/nasa-wants-to-place-calls-to-deep-space-with-xrays
Sometime this spring, the International Space Station will transmit its first x-ray communications signal. The astronauts on board will know immediately whether the experiment was a success. That’s because the ISS will also be the receiver.
This proof-of-principle test, traveling just 50 meters
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There are still 100,000 pay phones in America
https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/news/companies/pay-phones/index.html
In 1999, you could still plunk a coin into one at 2 million phone booths in the United States. Only 5% of those are left today. About a fifth of America’s 100,000 remaining pay phones are in New York
Pay phone providers reported $286 million in revenue in 2015
Keane agreed: “Every time there’s a disaster our phone use goes through the roof. The pay phone system stays intact for the toughest part of the disaster while the cell networks go down.”
The FCC targeted the disappearing industry last month, eliminating “unnecessary and wasteful” regulations
More low-income Americans, once a steady revenue stream for pay phones, have turned to prepaid phones or receive subsidizes on cellphones
“We have an erosion rate that doesn’t have us thinking we’ll be in the pay phone business for long,” Keane said.
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
CloudGenix, which provides software-defined wide area networks, raises $65M Series C from Bain Capital, Intel, and others, bringing total raised to ~$100M
CloudGenix raises $65 million for software-defined networking products
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/17/cloudgenix-raises-65-million-for-software-defined-networking-products/
“We are leading a revolution in the networking industry,” said CloudGenix founder and CEO Kumar Ramachandran, a 13-year Cisco veteran. “We are executing on our vision of delivering autonomous WANs to our customers — enabling them to specify application policies aligned to their business and have the infrastructure choreograph itself. We couldn’t be more thankful to our customers and look forward to serving them in even larger numbers.”
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Fluke Networks Video
Testing a Modular Plug Terminated Link (MPTL) by Fluke Networks
https://buyersguide.cablinginstall.com/fluke-networks-178934/videos/testing-a-modular-plug-terminated-link-mptl-by-fluke-networks.html
Modular Plug Terminated Links (MPTL) are now part of the ANSI/TIA-568-D.2 standard. This approach eliminates the need for extra equipment cords and wall plates when installing devices such as security cameras and access points.
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Muovikuidulla gigabitin kotiverkko?
http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9364&via=n&datum=2019-04-15_15:50:04&mottagare=30929
Yhä useammin nettiyhteys pitää jakaa kodissa joka paikkaan ja suosituin tapa on wifin välityksellä. Entäpä, jos kotiinsa saisi edullisesti toteutettu verkon, jossa taattaisiin gigabitin datayhteys? Tämä onnistuu POF-tekniikalla eli jakamalla netti eri tiloihin ohuella kuitukaapelilla.
KDPOF on toteuttanut laajan kenttätestin oepraattorin kanssa ja sen perusteella uskalletaan luvata gigabitin yhteys jokaiseen erilliseen POF-yhdyspisteeseen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Ultimate Guide to Nyquist Subcarriers
https://www.lightwaveonline.com/whitepapers/2019/04/the-ultimate-guide-to-nyquist-subcarriers.html?123&cmpid=&utm_source=eg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&utm_content=2019-03-29&eid=316207186&bid=2417840
Fiber optic systems have rapidly evolved from a conventional optical carrier where a single laser produces a single signal to coherent implementations with transmitter-based processing. While many equipment providers are working to shape their signals for greater performance and spectral efficiency, Infinera has pioneered Nyquist shaping that digitally divides the optical carrier into multiple subcarriers to dramatically enhance optical performance.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Polarizing the Data Center: Spin Lasers Deliver 240 Gigabits Per Second
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/polarizing-the-data-center-how-240gigabit-data-transfer-devices-could-spin-up
Researchers in Germany have tested a new form of high-speed data transfer that could boost connection speeds by five times or more. Laser light is still the carrier of information in this prototype technology, but the zeroes and ones are encoded according to the oscillating polarization in the light beam rather than its intensity.
Tomi Engdahl says:
CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded By China’s Military And Intelligence
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/20/cia-offers-proof-huawei-has-been-funded-by-chinas-military-and-intelligence/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/#66dfa4037208
Tomi Engdahl says:
IPOS -> IP over SMS
https://github.com/spandanb/ipos
A client/server architecture to send/receive IP traffic over SMS.
Tomi Engdahl says:
DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/24/dns-over-https-is-coming-whether-isps-and-governments-like-it-or-not/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Tomi Engdahl says:
Australia’s Troubled National Broadband Network Delivers a Fraction of What Was Promised
https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/australias-troubled-national-broadband-network-delivers-a-fraction-of-what-was-promised
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast says its customers’ monthly median data use rose to 200GB in Q1 2018, up 34% YoY, driven by streaming video, especially in 4K — Median usage hit 200GB, but Comcast won’t say how many use a full terabyte. — Comcast said its customers’ monthly Internet data usage increased 34 …
Comcast usage soars 34% to 200GB a month, pushing users closer to data cap
Median usage hit 200GB, but Comcast won’t say how many use a full terabyte.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/comcast-usage-soars-34-to-200gb-a-month-pushing-users-closer-to-data-cap/
Comcast said its customers’ monthly Internet data usage increased 34 percent between Q1 2018 and Q1 2019, rising to a median of 200GB. The rise is being driven by streaming video, and, in particular, 4K video, Comcast said.
“Our customers’ demand for speed and data usage keeps increasing,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a call with investors yesterday (transcript). “Our median broadband home now uses over 200 gigabytes of data per month, an increase of 34 percent year-over-year, which accelerated from the fourth quarter.” (Stop the Cap reported on Comcast’s remarks earlier.)
As we reported in January, OpenVault research on the US cable industry found that 4.1 percent of households were using at least 1TB a month, up from 2.1 percent the previous year. That same research found that US cable Internet customers were using an average of 268.7GB per month.
In late 2013, when the cap was 300GB, Comcast was saying that only 2 percent of its customers used more than that. By late 2015, that was up to 8 percent.
Comcast raised the cap from 300GB to 1TB in June 2016.
Comcast would prefer that customers buy Comcast cable TV instead of watching Netflix or other non-Comcast online services. But Comcast cashes in on increased streaming video usage because of its 1TB cap, charging $10 fees for each additional block of 50GB or $50 monthly for an upgrade to unlimited data.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Boingo and Mettis Aerospace Test Wi-Fi 6 for Airports and Factories
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wifi6trial
“We’re still defining what the success criteria will be,” says Mettis IT head Dave Green, but the firm plans to test the next-generation of Wi-Fi for a few applications: collecting sensor data from machines on the factory floor, allowing staff to use augmented reality-enabled tablets to troubleshoot problems, and transmitting live video feeds from harder-to-reach areas on the factory floor. Green says they know these applications will require low latency—one of Wi-Fi 6’s improvements over its predecessor—and the ability to handle hundreds of simultaneous connections at once—another of the standard’s selling points.