NextGen Carrier Ethernet
(T) Providing higher bandwidth applications (more) at a lower cost (with less) is the main driver for the present evolution of Ethernet. But to achieve that goal some legacy limitations […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Brilliant Ideas from Brilliant Minds
(T) Every year at the RSA Conference, I have the same feeling: that information security is not changing and at the same time somewhat changing. What is changing is obviously […]
Simple Ideas from Simple Minds
(T) Although most of us have been exposed to the basis of computation theory through the Turing Machine, fewer of us probably remembered that Alan Turing was a code breaker […]
The 45 Trillion Dollars Credit Default Swaps
(B) Earlier this year, Bill Gross from PIMCO identified in his January 2008 Investment Outlook, the emerging risks to the financial system caused by the $45 trillion credit default swaps (CDS). […]
The Collapse of the US Financial System
(B) The present crisis of the US financial system that raised its peak with Bear Stearns’ collapse last week has its roots in the US addiction to put too much […]
Providing Security Policies and Encryption Keys
(T) To continue on my previous article about data encryption and access control, following is a new approach to provide security policies and encryption keys for IP Security (IPSec) network […]
Moving to Access Control and Data Encryption
(T) Information security professionals need constantly to ask themselves what are the requirements to secure the digital assets that they are in charge. Today again in the headlines a new […]
Investing for Dummies
(E) Barron’s in its October 1, 2007 edition has ranked the top 50 hedge funds based on their average returns over the last three years (The article is available online […]
Making a Linux Apps Secured and Resilient
(T) For the last two products that I started, the operating system of the equipment was a Linux kernel. Most network equipment vendors have been switching recently from VxWorks from WindRiver to […]
An Insanely Great Piece of Art
(E) There is hype. And, there is the reality. And, in most cases, if you do not pay too much attention, it is hard to distinguish the hype from the […]
Enjoying Une Ratatouille in Paris
(E) Last week, one of my best friends was in Europe for a business trip and on Friday at 9 pm shoot me an e-mail on my BlackBerry asking me […]
The End of Infrastructure Start-Ups
(T) As reported by Light Reading recently, Avici Systems became the last vendor to exit the Internet core routing market. Before Avici, Caspian Networks, Pluris, Chiaro Networks, Hyperchip, Axiowave, and […]
The Versatility of Ethernet
(T) With 100 Gb Ethernet coming soon, Ethernet, by all means, is a versatile technology. It can be deployed in many applications over many data rates. But, we need to […]
The Defenders of the New Renaissance
(T) They were this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was a little bit disappointed by the 2007 RSA conference this year versus the previous years. The […]
Virtual Machines Making a Big Step
(T) It was certainly more exciting to be at MacWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco than at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. How fun it […]
A New Telecom Venture Can Still Be Bought
(T) Yes, a telecom start-up can still be bought for $290M like Entrisphere today by Ericsson! But it has been a while since the last time that happened. I believe […]
Deep Domain Expertise at GE
(B) In an interview in the June edition of the Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman, and CEO of GE describes how he intends to grow organically GE two to […]
From Fame to Profits
(T) At the 2006 RSA Security Conference in San Jose, both Bill Gates and John Chambers articulated similar market and product strategies that both aim to increase the security of […]
MPLS PW VPLS and IP VPNs Services
(T) MPLS has strongly emerged as the best technology to provide initially IP VPNs also called Layer 3 VPNs and now PWS (Pseudo Wires Services) and VPLS (Virtual Private LAN […]
MPLS Label Switching Fundamentals
(T) Organizations have been demanding virtual private networks (VPNs) instead of costly leased lines from their service providers and, Ethernet and IP services instead of DS1 and DS3 services. MPLS […]
GFP VCAT LCAS Giving A New Life to SONET
(T) At SuperComm 2005 in Chicago, most vendors of optical CPE and transport products have now adopted the new Ethernet over SONET/SDH (EoS) family of protocols. The first EoS chips […]
Replacing the Spanning Tree with GELS
(T) At the 2005 MPLS World Congress in Paris, an evolution of GMPLS called GELS was announced to provide a control plane to Ethernet switching. The idea is quite interesting […]
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