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What is IPv6, why is it so important, and why is it adoption taking so long?

Network World

For the most part the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, and software is in place to prevent the address apocalypse that many were predicting. What is IPv6 and why is it important?

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Network as a service (NaaS) : NaaS is a cloud-based service that provides network infrastructure, such as routers, switches and firewalls, as a service.

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Wi-Fi HaLow: Hands on with AsiaRF’s IoT network gateway

Network World

HaLow’s sweet spot is industrial IoT, building automation, security, access control, utility smart meters and intelligent grids. Here’s our hand-on assessment of working with AsiaRF’s Wi-Fi mesh gateway, which features a star topology that enables 8,000 connections for industrial IoT use cases.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before; if I have, please forgive me.

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

The first part of this article does a great job of describing some of the key forces that are shaping the networking industry. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Servers/Hardware. I haven’t had a chance to read it all, but it seems pretty comprehensive.

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