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The Aviom Starter System includes the Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer, Aviom AN-16/i 16-Channel Input Module, and the Aviom MT-1 Mic Stand Mount -- the essential equipment to get your home recording studio up and running.
A-16II Personal Mixer
The Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer allows individual performers to create custom monitor mixes tailored to their individual needs. Designed for use in live performance or in the studio, the A-16II Personal Mixer is a 16-channel digital mixer which gives each performer completely independent control over channel volume, grouping, pan, and stereo spread, as well as master volume and tone. Every performer gets a completely customized monitor or cue mix. Each user can save and recall up to sixteen custom mixes as presets in their Personal Mixer.
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The AN-16/i provides 16 balanced line-level inputs into a Pro16 system. Audio is converted to digital (48kHz, 24 bits, no compression) and transmitted in real time via A-Net, up to 500 feet over a Cat-5e cable. A dedicated audio thru is available for each input channel, allowing the AN-16/i to be seamlessly inserted into an existing audio signal path.
In most uses, audio from a console--any combination of channel inserts, direct outs, submixes, auxes, or groups--is connected to the input channels on the AN-16/i. The A-Net Out on the AN-16/i is connected to the A-Net In of a Pro16 Personal Mixer (such as the A-16II) or an A-Net Distributor.
The built-in A-Net Expansion jack allows two 16-channel A-Net streams to be combined onto a single cable (32x0 or 16x16), and the AN-16SBR System Bridge can be used to combine up to four 16-channel streams onto a single cable in a variety of bi-directional configurations up to 32x32, 48x16, or 64x0.
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The Aviom MT-1 allows the Aviom A-16II Personal mixer or A-16CS Control Surface to be mounted on a standard microphone stand. The MT-1 attaches with three screws to the bottom of an A-16II or A-16CS and mounts on any standard mic stand.
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16-channel stereo mixer
Fully adjustable pan per channel
Line/Headphone audio output
Auto-detect mono/stereo circuitry
Simple set-up with Cat-5e cables
Sixteen Preset locations for storing custom mixes
Channels can be soloed, muted, or grouped
Global trim for reducing all channel volumes
Sixteen channel select buttons with dual LEDs
Pan/Spread control with LED readout
Channel volume control with LED level readout
Master Volume, Treble, and Bass controls
Includes one Aviom L-30 30' Cat-5e cable
Mounts easily on a mic stand with the MT-1 mic stand mount
AN-16/i 16-Channel Input Module
Sixteen balanced audio inputs (TRS connectors)
Sixteen balanced Thru connectors (TRS)
A-Net Out and A-Net Expansion digital audio network connections (Cat-5)
Stereo Link switches for each channel pair
MT-1 Mic Stand Mount
Attaches to any standard mic stand
Threaded thumb screws included
A-16II Personal Mixer
A-Net Input/ Output: 1 input, 1 output Category 5 (RJ45 connector)
Digital to Analog Conversion Bit Depth: 24 bit
Signal to Noise Ratio (Referenced to 0dB): -103dB
Treble: +/-12dB at 9kHz shelving
Bass: +/-12dB at 160Hz shelving
Maximum Levels (RMS): Line/Headphone outs: 1.0 watt at 100 ohms
Line/Headphone outs: 140 ohms
Dimensions: 10.75" wide x 5.6" deep 2.25" high
Weight: 3.4 lbs.
AN-16/i 16-Channel Input Module
Analog to Digital Conversion: 48kHz sample rate, 24 bit
Frequency Response: 4Hz-22kHz
A-Net Output: one Category 5 (RJ45 connector)
A-Net Expansion: one Category 5 (RJ45 connector)
Gain Switch: Four Position, -10dBv, 0dBu, +4dBu and +22dBu
Channel LED Indicators: Signal Present and Clip, per channel
Line Input Impedance: 48k ohms
Power: 18-24 VDC, 500mA
Dimensions: 19" wide x 6.7" deep x 1.75" high (1U)
Weight: 6.8 lbs.
MT-1 Mic Stand Mount
Boxed Weight: 1lb.
Boxed Dimensions: 7"w x 5"d x 3"h
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Can you answer this question? Looks so simple and yet you cannot answer. It means Existence is
Existing. Or Existence is Existence or what is what as it should be. Nothing else. You are existing as
only you. Can you deny this? But you cover yourself with many masks such as father, uncle, cousin,
good man, bad man, rich man etc. and split up yourself or you allow yourself being split.
All the rest of the objects seen as world etc are illusions created by the mind. He/She is existing as
himself/herself is an idea of your thoughts and mind. You cannot prove their existence even
scientifically with out the help of sight. Therefore, can I call others as mere sight which is a fact?
When you disappear all the rest disappears with you. This happens every day which you call sleep. One
day you will forget to wake up which others call as death and not by you. As far as you are concerned
you don't know what death is and develop a fear for death which you don't know. But you are
unnecessarily creating another 'you' or 'I' which is the ego which is the one that is afraid of death. This
'I' is an illusion. Not true.
This fear is an emotion created by thought and expressed by a false 'I'.
Without this false 'I' you will
Without this false 'I' you will
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available. Why do you want to change it or make it to change according to your desire and you waste the
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The principal areas of co-operation as envisaged in the MoU, include setting up a Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) desk in London and Mumbai, starting primary equity operations, and establishing a fund through which principal investments will be made by Almondz and Noble Group India.
Mr Mehta told mediapersons, ''India is a high growth investment location given the size and growth of its local market, access to natural resources and capital markets, stable investment climate, and skilled low-cost labour. Our alliance with the Almondz Group is synergistic as it will enable us to jointly expand our business canvas.'' Mr Bromhead said, ''The two firms plan to break ground by establishing a FII desk in London. The desk will develop the business of selling Indian listed equity products and equity linked and hybrid securities to UK and other international institutional investors and UK equities to Indian institutional investors. Besides setting up the FII desk, Almondz and Noble will be working together to develop a strategy for Indian companies interested in listing or offering equity and also establish an Indian specific fund through which principal investments will be made by Almondz and Noble Group.'' UNI


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Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers
Here's how I setup access points;
1. Give the device a static IP and move it near the top (above .200)of your range. If possible don't use the DHCP server function. Let some other device or server do that.
2. Change the password to something with numbers and letters.
3. Change the default device name to something you'll recognize. Do not use the default name.
4. Don't use WEP or WPA.
5. Use the MAC address access list that way only devices you explicitly add will gain access to you network.
Are you trying to put many of us out of business?
Without stupid users, quite a few of your brethren would be otherwise employed!
Any One Who is Wireless is a Fool
We are all vulnerable even with a router that is hard wire
if your on the net then your making yourself a target and I
don't care if you have every firewall out their, if you got
know how and the software and know how to run a virtual
machine then you can get past any routers
password,/w.e.p,/w.e.p 2 it's all in how much you know.
advice to you if is if you want to be secure as can be GO
So how
does a mac change the firewall & wireless router that I am running exactly?
The same firewall and router that would be used for the PC.
If I am to believe you then the end result would still be exposure to the hackers, no matter what system I run behind them.
*Sigh* Same crap from Mac lovers
"Buy a Mac! Buy a Mac!"
That's all Mac users do, complain about PCs and push their Mac-ology onto people like a "religious right". The Pat Robertsons of the computing world.
Sadly, it's worse than the Ford/Chevy arguement you hear at NASCAR races.
Anyway, and back to the article at hand: It's ashame that companies don't build in an auto-force password change on routers the first time you log in. Joe User don't always think about things like the router password. They think just think Router=Security, not the actual settings.
~pokes Dan in the back~
here, use my bat, it has pennies super glued to it to knock some "cents" into them ]:)
That is not nice X-( :^0
Taking advantage of some ignorant person's insecure home router is not nice! That's right up there with taking candy from a baby, taking a retarded child's lunch money, or kicking a dog. There must be a special place in **** for these depraved people.
Changing the DNS to redirect to a phisher website is scary. If the phishers make the front door look and act like the real one, and wire up a fake SSL certificate, all it has to do is suck up the user IDs and passwords and then display some kind of "We're sorry, database temporarily offline, try again later" page. Insidious!
What to do? If you ever see this kind of odd website behavior from a major financial site, assume you're exposed and do something to change your password immediately. Call the bank. Or, immediately use an alternate Internet connection (a dial-up modem will do), sign on to the real website, and change the password. Of course, this plan fails if the redirection is being done in your hosts file, or in the Internet somewhere.
Some financial websites are effectively countering this threat with things like "Site ID" (e.g. Bank of America). The website presents you with something known only to you (a photo and a passphrase) after you enter your user ID but BEFORE you enter your password. You are instructed to not enter your password if you don't see the correct picture and passphrase. This is a clever, and patented, sequence that is very effective.
A True Story - A "perfect" phisher website
Some months ago, I got an outstandingly realistic phisher e-mail from "PayPal" (most of them are poor). The only dead giveaway was the lack of personal information (my name, etc), and the hidden website URL on the "Click Here" link. I was curious so I went to the "PayPal" website to check this one out. That fake page was absolutely flawless. Every single link worked and went to the real website. It even had the current promotional advertising that was on the real PayPal website. Only two things were different: 1. The URL was not "paypal.com", but was close enough to fool a lot of people, and 2. The destination on the HTML form tag was not "paypal.com". Someone put a huge amount of work into this. Spooky.
Wireless Home Router Best Practices:
- Change the router admin password. Use a strong password (no dictionary words, uppercase, lowercase, numbers).
- Change the router name.
- Change the router wireless SSID.
- Don't broadcast the SSID.
- Use WPA/PSK with a strong password (no dictionary words, uppercase, lowercase, numbers) for wireless. Change the password every month.
- Use the MAC address filter list to provide some additional obfuscation and restriction.
- Put the router in "stealth" mode so it does not respond to any anonymous requests from the Internet. Make it "invisible" on the Internet.
Best Practices For Securing A Wireless Network
[this page is a bit old and says to enable WEP...use WPA/PSK instead]
WEP: Dead Again, Part 1
WEP: Dead Again, Part 2
Wi-Fi security ? WEP, WPA and WPA2
well, you know
When you have sys admins not changing defulat passwords to cisco routers, how can we expect the untrainined/uninformed to know to do it.
Chuckle Jaqui, I like that. A hat with pennies superglued... Yea, that would work.... But, then I would nock them out... They would claim innocence to leaving the password open because they were not of the right mind. Ehhhh, they claimed that argument already anyway.... Give me the hat.


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AP: Across US, police officers abuse confidential databases
Indicted Police Officers Allegedly Used Positions To Steal And Sell Drugs
Crooked Cop Let Woman Off In Exchange For Oral Sex: Police
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Dolf is a regular guy from a modest background in Knysna. He is content with his normal small town existence, his group of friends and his eccentric grandparents. His life is thrown upside down when he falls for a beautiful stranger Stephanie, a somewhat wealthy visitor to the sleepy coastal resort. What she has not been honest about, is that she is engaged to the Prince of Lichtenstein, but has a cold feet, and is hiding out in Knysna. Stephanie is drawn to the simplicity of Dolf's life and yearns for her own to be as uncomplicated and away from the limelight. When the lie becomes apparent, Dolf is conflicted. He is in love with Stephanie, but also feels an inferiority complex come to the fore. She is just a girl wanting a guy to love her and for her to love him back.
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Something a little different, I had an idea for a stock shot made from my bike riding in traffic at dusk. After many failed attempts mostly from vibration issues, I managed to get one images that worked. D7K in chest harness with 10mm fisheye, fill flash.
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Folks, thanks.
Budapest...Buda + Pest.
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Some more landscape :
As the bell rang for last call at the Cementerio de la Recoletta in Buenos Aires...Nikon D610, 24-120mm F4VR @ 78mm, iso 100.
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Very nice Steen quite a contrast between old and new...do like that 28G
d800 14/24
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Lennox Bridge
| Nikon D3x | Nikon 50mm 1.4G |
Stop chasing gear, start chasing photos instead.
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A Parade of Sails on the Charles river in Boston from the Cambridge side of the river.
Nikon D610 / 70-200mm F4VR @100mm
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Glasshouse Mountains
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Stop chasing gear, start chasing photos instead.
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Went out to try and get some pics of the camelopardids last night up in North Georgia but unless I seriously missed something the shower was a dud. There were fireflies everywhere so here's my fav pic from the night...milky way and a field of fireflies/cows. A lot of the fireflies don't show in the downrezzed web version grrrr. Still getting the hang of night photography, it's pretty fun. D800e, 24mm f1.4, f2.8, iso 2000, 30 sec, RRS TVC-33, BH-55.
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Following a blond rabbit !
Today's past (D800e 24-70/2.8):
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Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Nikon D300
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Nothing spectacular here, but I am going to make this into Thank You Cards for our personal use. D800E, Tamron 24-70 f2.8 VR ISO 400 hand held 1/100 sec f8. Thanks for looking
Dave in NJ
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Our newest family member, Wille. He works hard!
Nikon D3x | AF-S 85/1,4G | f2,0 | 1/500s | iso 100
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I also am back to chasing waterfalls in the wilderness areas. This is Shelving Rock Falls - a 70'-80' falls on the east side of Lake George, NY USA. I will say, the water in front of the falls was a bit deeper than I anticipated - up to my waist (I thought it was only knee deep)! But, I did get my shot!
Nikon D3200 / 10-20 Sigma Lens @12mm / f22 / Soaked jeans and waterlogged boots.
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CNovick: the wet boots and pants were worth it! I do a similar thing with the ocean and breaking waves here where we live. Well done.
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Just to add to my last post, I printed this shot at 20"x24" on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl, a beautiful paper with my IPF6400 and mounted it in a Nielsen frame along with 10 others that are being displayed today, just thought I'd show this one as it looks beautiful on the wall. I'd urge anyone thinking about doing there own printing to go for it and sod the expense, there's nothing like seeing the image through and the Canon is fantastic, it blows away the prints I did on my Z3100.
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On my way to Shelving Rock Falls - driving along a dirt road - I heard the water flowing and after some investigating, I found this roadside stream and falls.
Nikon D3200 / 10-20 Sigma Lens @14mm / f25
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Feeling blue...Christian Science Plaza and Reflecting pool in Boston on a cool foggy evening. Difficult to use a tripod here now because of roving security guards. I tried a small table top pod and realized quickly why it's at the back of my gear closet .... D600 / 17-35mm @17mm iso 100
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I will ask my wife how often the church bells ring, she works in the curved (Willis) building between the church and the Lloyds building..
I think the old bell in the Lloyds building is bigger..
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It's a long time ago since I posted something: here are 2 shots from the North Sea, during sunset and 20 min after, D800, 4/300mm AF-S D
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A location shot from a recent production for a food magazine.
It's a very nice restaurant/bar located very close to the beach on the island Sylt in Germany. D800 & 85 PC-E
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Up early! Another Waterfall to capture. This one was easy - Dickinson Falls - just a few hundred feet through the woods (and about 50' down) at the side of the road. In the town of Westerlo - outside of Albany, NY (USA). A 60' + waterfall.
Nikon D3200/Sigma 10mm-20mm Lens @ 18 mm
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D700 with Tamron 24-135mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 95mm and f/8
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Paris a few years back.
Trocadero Gardens
D3s, 35/1.4
Remember: adventure before dementia!
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Hey guys!
My lovely wife who is surprisingly cool about that money-hungry hobby of mine.
Nikon D800 + Nikkor 85 f/1.8 at f/10
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Beautiful shot Boris, great light.
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Some pictures from Sydney's annual Vivid festival...
D800E plus Zeiss 15mm f2.8 lens:
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D800E plus Pentax 67 75mm f2.8AL lens
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D800E plus Pentax 645 150mm FA f2.8 lens
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D800E plus Nikon 24-70 lens (@70mm)
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Arches National Park, Utah
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OpenFlow, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies fuel the latest hype bubble in the networking industry and service provider environments.
Based on vendor and industry press promises, well-published OpenFlow deployment with Google's internal network, and numerous other industry initiatives, these technologies became an unavoidable boardroom discussion as service providers and enterprises try to seek new revenue streams or optimize their costs.
On the other hand, many engineers are left wondering what's really going on behind the scenes and how useful these technologies might be in real-life networks.
This workshop describes the technology fundamentals of Software Defined Networking (SDN), OpenFlow and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), their advantages and pitfalls, and the potential use cases including a brief overview of some existing deployments. The focus of the presentation is on real-life deployment scenarios and design discussions.
- SDN, OpenFlow and NFV workshop is a 3 days intensive instructor-led workshop.
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Topics Covered
- The need for Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- SDN Explained
- Introduction to OpenFlow
- OpenFlow scalability challenges
- Benefits of Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- BGP-based SDN solutions
- Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
- Network programmability with NETCONF and YANG
- Network automation with Ansible
- SDN and controller-based networking deployment considerations
- Real-life SDN use cases
See workshop contents for more details.
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About the webinar
- The session offered a very refreshing and alternative view on the SDN/NFV story. There are too many that describe the potential and opportunity but few that take a really close look at the underlying challenges to realize it.
- Klas Nilsson
- You got vendor independent views of networking field.
- Jaakko Rautanen
- Excellent content, good discussion, nice open forum. Group size is about right to remain personal but big enough to stimulate wider conversation. Overall an excellent event
- Richard Alexaander
- Walk thru of all new technologies with proper context. pointing out hype , fluff and what remains is truth (reality).
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- Fantastic -- incredibly accessible and comprehensive, with a vendor-neutral tone. Ivan is excellent at articulating key networking concepts clearly and with a great sense of humor.
- Mike O'Malley
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About the instructor
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- Richard Alexaander
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- Must read for management, attendees should debrief their management on these topics.
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Target Audience
Network architects, designers and implementation engineers working in environments that are evaluating the viability or plan to deploy SDN solutions based on OpenFlow, BGP, NFV or other related technologies.
Workshop Contents
The Need for Software Defined Networking
While the whole IT industry has been moving toward highly automated solutions in the last decade, networking has remained stuck – most networking engineers are still manually configuring individual devices.
There's high time we change the deployment and operational processes and reduce the amount of time spent doing repetitive manual tasks; this part of the workshop will give you some high-level guidelines and explore the high-level aspects of SDN including:
- Centralized control plane;
- Software (x86-based) switching;
- Custom network operating systems and whitebox switching;
- Network device APIs;
- Network programmability and orchestration.
The second part of this section focuses on technologies underlying SDN and NFV – OpenFlow, NETCONF, APIs, virtualization and virtual appliances. It will also try to answer the fundamental questions: When, Why and How should you program your network.
Software Defined Networking Architectures
Software defined networking is not a new technology – we've been using the concepts of programmable networks for decades.
This section describes common SDN architectures and deployment scenarios including:
- Device and service provisioning;
- Routing and forwarding adjustment controllers;
- Centralized control plane.
Introduction to OpenFlow
This section describes the concepts of OpenFlow, a new protocol used to decouple control plane (topology discovery, path calculation…) from data plane (packet forwarding). It covers the following topics:
- Traditional forwarding with distributed routing protocols
- Controller-based forwarding
- Basics of OpenFlow protocol
- Benefits and drawbacks of OpenFlow
OpenFlow Scalability Challenges
OpenFlow concepts are not new and share scalability challenges with similar technologies and architectures including Frame Relay, ATM, ForCES and MPLS-TP. This section discusses the major OpenFlow scalability challenges:
- Hardware limitations
- Proactive and reactive forwarding table setup
- Hop-by-hop and path-based forwarding
- Control-plane scalability and lack of shared fate
BGP-based SDN
Numerous SDN solutions use BGP as the controller-to-device communication protocol. This section explains the basics of BGP-based SDN, documents several typical use cases and gives practical deployment guidelines, including sample open-source-based controller implementation.
Benefits of Network Function Virtualization
If you open a firewall, load balancer, WAN accelerator or almost any other network services appliance, you'll find one or more x86 processors, standard GE/10GE NICs and some custom packet handling logic. Is there any reason we have to be tied to physical hardware? Wouldn't it be better to deploy the same services in virtual machine format and make them flexible? That's the fundamental concept of Network Function Virtualization.
Does it really make sense to replace physical network services appliances with virtual machines? What are the benefits and drawbacks of NFV approach? This section will give you the answers you need to start evaluating applicability of NFV in your environment.
Network Programmability with NETCONF and YANG
NETCONF is a protocol widely used to configure networking devices (it's supported by Brocade, Cisco, Juniper and other vendors). This section describes NETCONF and YANG (the data model description language used by NETCONF), their benefits and shortcomings, and the vendor-specific implementation details. It includes the following topics:
- What is NETCONF and YANG
- Why are SNMP, CLI and REST not good enough?
- Where did NETCONF and YANG come from?
- How does NETCONF work over XML?
- How does YANG work?
- Why would you write a YANG module? Is it useful?
- I want to deploy a service like MPLS/VPN - are NETCONF and YANG useful?
- Tools you can use to test your NETCONF code
- Differences in NETCONF implementations
- Deployment examples
Network Automation Overview
This section describes typical network automation scenarios, from device provisioning to automated troubleshooting and acceptance tests and guides you on a journey from manually-operated networks of today through network state abstraction toward automated provisioning and failure remediation.
On that journey you'll also identify the common reasons for network automation, meet CLIs and APIs, and learn about typical caveats.
Network Automation Tools
Chef, Puppet, and Ansible are the most popular server configuration management tools, and all of them get used in network automation solutions.
This section describes the fundamentals of all three tools, their typical implementation on network devices, and the potential benefits and drawbacks of using them. It then focuses on Ansible is one of, which is commonly the tool-of-choice due to its agentless design.
SDN and Controller-Based Networking Deployment Considerations
Networking solutions with centralized network intelligence or control plane have existed for almost half a century (IBM SNA, ATM, Frame Relay, Ipsilon Flow Management Protocols).
Not surprisingly, novel SDN architectures using centralized controller clusters exhibit similar challenges:
- Single points of failure;
- Impact of network partitions;
- Balance between tightly- and loosely-coupled elements;
- Control plane and controller security;
- Impact of data plane activity on control-plane performance (punting to control plane);
- Control plane denial of service (DoS) attacks.
This section describes typical SDN deployment considerations, ranging from architectural and design challenges to security and operational considerations.
Real-Life SDN Use Cases
Service providers and enterprises are already deploying SDN, using NETCONF, BGP or OpenFlow as the implementation technology. This section describes numerous use cases based on real-life deployments:
- Data center fabrics (Arista XMPP, Juniper QFabric, NEC ProgrammableFlow, Plexxi, Big Cloud Fabric)
- Data center network automation
- Overlay virtual networks
- Microsegmentation (VMware NSX)
- Forwarding optimizations and exception routing with BGP (Microsoft)
- Optimized WAN edge forwarding (Spotify/Arista)
- Software-defined WAN
- Centralized traffic engineering (Juniper Northstar, Google OpenFlow-based solution, Fibbing)
- Programmable network taps and tap aggregation networks (Arista, NEC, Big Switch, Cisco)
- Network monitoring (Plexxi Control, HP SDN VAN controller, x86-based solutions)
- Network services insertion (NEC ProgrammableFlow, segment routing, virtualization solutions)
- Scale-out load balancing (NEC/Riverbed, Coho Data, Microsoft Azure) and firewalling (Arista/Palo Alto)
- Scale-out intrusion detection system (University of Indiana)
- DoS mitigation tools (Remote-triggered black holes, BGP Flowspec, NEC/Radware)
- Edge policy enforcement
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Ivan started analyzing OpenFlow-based solutions and writing about OpenFlow technology and SDN concepts in early 2011. He was moderating the first-ever OpenFlow symposium in Silicon Valley in September 2011, had SDN presentations at RIPE and other regional ISP meetings, ran full-day SDN workshops at Interop and Troopers, and created OpenFlow/SDN webinars for NEC, VMware and Nuage Networks.
Ivan published two books on SDN and OpenFlow in 2014, and helped large multinational organizations and equipment vendors familiarize themselves with SDN concepts, evaluate their SDN strategies, and plan and design SDN pilots. He's also the author of several Cisco Press books, prolific blogger at blog.ipspace.net and author of a series of highly successful webinars.
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Shinjuku with massive skyscrapers!
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So, having finally caught up with my well-needed beauty sleep, I awoke more refreshed and ready to see some sights. Having finally dragged my companion out of his stupor and feeding him coffee, we plotted what to do.
The trouble with a city quite as large as Tokyo is there's so much that you could conceivably be doing. Every page of the bible suggested more and more interesting things - so eventually we just decided on Shinjuku. "What's there again?" I asked as we strode out into the debilitating heat. "Big buildings and lots of 'em" was the reply. Neat.
We jumped onto the obliging metro and popped up again across the city into the middle of a maze of steel and glass.
We started trudging around, our necks glued at a permanent and crippling 90 degree angle. Conversation was minimal, the odd "wow" or "look at that!" with some vigorous gesticulation was about all we managed until we got used to the spectacle around us. What finally brought us down to earth with a bump was the phenomenon that can only be described as cake in a bag.
We'd stopped in a convenience store to replenish our fluids. I was browsing the chilled section, more to get relief from the heat if nothing else when something odd caught my eye. There, innocuous amongst all the other delights was a triangular bag containing an orangey-pinky cake complete with cream.
This was a must purchase. Excitedly we bounced from the store and admired the greatness of cake in a bag. Trembling we opened the packet. The cake was moist and cool. It tasted all right, certainly better than some cakes I've paid more money for and were not in bags. We grinned as we wolfed it down.
"That," said my mate relaxing back with a satisfied grin on his face, "is progress."
I concurred. "I concur. It beats toilets that wash your bum."
He nodded sagely - too scared to try the loos in fear of what happened to me.
I too nodded. What followed was many minutes of discussion in exactly what foods should indeed come in bags. We concluded pretty much all of them (our favourite was roast dinner, in a bag). This episode highlights a couple of things. 1) We're a little excitable; 2) food in bags is good; and 3) we probably should have been doing something better with our time. So we did.
The object of our Shinjuku excursion was the Tokyo Toco, or the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices. We were here to ascend the 243m building to get to an observatory on the 45th floor. Inside were queues, bag checks and lifts that go so high so fast your ears pop. Then we were looking out over all of Tokyo.
The views were immense - literally. It brought home the size of the city and the building we were in. We joined the other tourists and milled from window to window gawping at the view and waving to people in the other tower. On the same level was a massive souvenir/cute tat bazaar selling many, amny cute plastically (no doubt highly collectible) bits of rubbish. Souvenirs were quickly bought. Now more view.
Eventually, we had enough and headed back down to the plaza and normal size. Our next stop was motivated by two main concerns: 1) we wanted to see a hollow sky scraper, and 2) we needed the loo. As chance would have it, the Shinjuku NS Building was equipped to deal with both concerns - and it did so admirably.
The building is hollow all the way up, which is quite incredible. It's like a shell of a skyscraper, or one made out of a cereal packet when you were a kid; soaring up on all sides. One wall is dominated by the worlds largest pendulum clock all 29m of it. It ticks, which is hypnotic, and looks perfect for a sequence in an action film (where someone could grab it and swing round shooting people...) The only problem with the NS Building was the lack of seats - it's a working office and tourist attraction, so you can't sit and admire the spectacle of engineering. To be honest, we were the only ones who were - all the Japanese people there presumably weren't impressed as they didn't look up once.
In terms of the second concern - this was the only time (to my knowledge) my mate, at my behest tried the bidet function.
This left us all skyscraper and caked out; so a walk in the Shinjuku-Park seemed in order. Like all great cities, Tokyo has these oases of green, lush and verdant nature in the middle of capitalist craziness. The walk was great, the heat was crazy. We found our way into Yasukni-dori, a mental shopping street full of people, large department stores and (thankfully) some air-conditioning to take away the heat. We blundered around for a while before we reached Hanazona-jinja, one of the many shrines that pop up all over Tokyo.
We went inside to escape the packed multitudes gorging at the teat of capitalist whimsy, and were immediately in more quiet and serene surroundings.
That done, we moved to Harajuku, and more specifically the Jingu-Bashi bridge. This was my mate's idea. He enthused with passion about the hordes of Japanese teens who loiter there dressed as their favourite manga characters. "Should be great," he said. "Unmissable."
We got to the bridge. Couple of buskers. Lots of pedestrians. No teens in skimpy costumes packing heat. No real teens in sight. "Ah, shit. Must be the wrong day." I tried to raise an eyebrow in sardonic acknowledgement but I was too hot and tired.
The last stop of the day was the Yoyogi National Stadium. This offered some great views of the surrounding area and was packed with teens. All waiting for some concert. Not a sailor suit or baretta in sight. Thoroughly defeated we retired to a restaurant, ate some food and then got quite drunk. Well, we'd earned it.


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Zuckerburg made it clear that this isn't a Web search service, and that user privacy has been taken into concern. Graph search is designed to take a precise query and deliver an answer. While Facebook says users can only search for content that has been shared with them, it is possible to search for things such as "TV shows watched by doctors" or "Music liked by people who like Mitt Romney" or even "Languages my friend speaks".
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Can Andrew Sullivan make post-industrial journalism pay?
The state of journalism as described by the Tow authors — media theorist Clay Shirky, journalism professor Chris Anderson and Tow Center head Emily Bell — is a landscape where the major media entities in virtually every field are being disrupted and unbundled, and where smaller players targeted at specific niches stand the best odds of success. It's an almost Darwinian view of the industry, with slow-moving giants who are gradually replaced by more nimble and flexible species. And it's also a more personal and human-sized approach, one that Sullivan clearly sympathizes with:
"We believe in a bottom-up Internet, which allows a thousand flowers to bloom, rather than a corporate-dominated web where the promise of a free space becomes co-opted by large and powerful institutions and intrusive advertising algorithms."
The model Sullivan is banking on — which features a $19.99-per-year subscription, free incoming links from blogs and social media, as well as a "pay whatever you want" donation option — is similar in many ways to the freemium or membership models other sites have staked their future on, including Mike Masnick's tech-opinion and analysis site Techdirt and Josh Marshall's political news and opinion network Talking Points Memo. But while those sites are offering extra features for members (such as member-only discussion forums and access to extra content, etc.) Sullivan says non-paying readers who merely follow links to his content will get exactly the same thing paying readers do.
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Police want former MP jailed over family fraud
Police in Perth will be pushing for a jail term for a former Federal MP convicted of stealing $100,000 from his mother-in-law.
Peter Shack is a former member for Perth metropolitan seat of Tangney.
He was charged with fraud but denied the offence and stood trial in the District Court.
A jury yesterday deliberated for several hours before finding him guilty.
Shack had claimed his mother-in-law Mary Stasinowsky had loaned the money to him for an investment.
Mrs Staniskowsly suffers from dementia and was unable to give evidence at the trial.
Shack was released on bail after the verdict and will be sentenced in April.
Detective Sergeant Shane Giblett from the Major Fraud Squad says police will push for a jail term.
Shack's former wife Pauline says the guilty verdict is vindication for her family and has brought a sense of closure.
"The last three years have been horrendous and we've really got justice for our Mum and Dad," she said.
"Mum and Dad worked so hard for us as a family and they always said they were doing it for us and for Peter to have stripped it all away plus break our family down as he has done."
Sergeant Giblett says such cases are common.
"With most of our fraud cases, usually it's someone in a position of trust who deceives, whether it be a company or a family or a trust," he said.
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As "any major dude [can now] tell you," Elvis Costello and Steely Dan are teaming up for a joint summer tour.
They'll be kicking off their 21-city tour on April 7 in Santa Rosa, Calif., closing Aug. 12 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
In between the dates, Steely Dan will make a stop at Coachella as one of the major artists of the festival.
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And I'm Michele Norris. We're going to spend some time over the next two days looking at Barack Obama's experience in Chicago and how that time helped shape him as a politician. Chicago is known as the City of Big Shoulders, famous for its pugilistic politics. That's a point of tremendous pride says Delmarie Cobb, a longtime Chicago political operative.
Ms. DELMARIE COBB (Political Consultant): This is Chicago. And we always say there's a little bit of gangster in everybody who's from Chicago.
NORRIS: But when Obama first stepped on the national stage in his run for the White House, he faced constant questions about his fortitude and his lack of experience in national politics. Is he tough enough? When attacked, will he cower? Or will he fight back and go for the jugular? So common were these questions that a popular New York Times columnist took to calling Obama "O-Bambi."
It's now widely believed that he toughened up in the course of a long nomination battle. But people in Chicago, like Delmarie Cobb who knew Obama long before he became a political star, say he's always had that warrior instinct.
Ms. COBB: You know, I don't think he was naive, by any means. And I think people are beginning to discover that there is nothing naive about him.
NORRIS: Case in point, his first election. It's a story that could well be called the political execution of Alice Palmer. Palmer was a friend and early mentor to Obama when he was working as a grassroots organizer after law school. She was a longtime and popular state senator on Chicago's South Side. In 1996, Palmer decided to make a run for Congress. Alan Dobry is a longtime political activist who lived in Palmer's district. He says Obama was the chosen successor.
Ms. ALAN DOBRY (Democratic Political Activist): Well, if you go to the U.S. Congress from being a state senator, who will replace you? Or are we just going to have some machine thug step in? And she says, no, I have this fine young man named Barack Obama. He seemed to be a more than acceptable replacement for Alice.
NORRIS: But Palmer lost in the primary for that congressional seat and decided that she wanted her old Senate seat after all. Her protege, Obama, would have to step aside. It was a test, a Darwinian dilemma. In order to fulfill his own ambitions, he would have to kill his friend's political career. Obama stood his ground and even went with one step further. Using an aggressive procedural move, he challenged the signatures on Palmer's nominating petitions. And he even went beyond that. He challenged the petitions for all three of his opponents. Now, mind you, it's not unusual for politicians to muscle rivals off the ballot, not in Chicago, explains longtime Chicago Alderman Toni Preckwinkle.
Ms. TONI PRECKWINKLE (4th Ward Alderman, Chicago): It's what you do in Chicago. My view is - and since I've challenged people and challenged people off the ballot - my view is, you know, you're not ready for primetime if you can't get your petitions in order and file them according to the requirements of the law. And if you fail to do that, then, you know, that's your problem.
NORRIS: And there was a problem. It turned out all the opponents had faulty signatures. Back in that '96 race, Alan Dobry was one of the people trying to verify signatures for Obama's campaign
Mr. DOBRY: And we looked at their petitions, and we saw that, Alice, her petitions were circulated by people named Pookie, for instance, who circulated that. We know what that means. It means somebody got a bunch of kids from the local high school to circulate the petition, and they put down the name as Pookie.
NORRIS: Obama's maneuver worked. He knocked all of his opponents off the ballot. He cleared the field and sailed on to an easy victory in the heavily Democratic district. Obama arrived in Chicago as an outsider, a guy who was raised in Hawaii. The move against Palmer proved to Democratic Party insiders that just maybe he had what it took to survive in Chicago, says Laura Washington, a columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times who's covered politics for almost three decades.
Ms. LAURA WASHINGTON (Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times): Chicago is a tough political town, bear-knuckled. Folks fight to get ahead. If he wanted to win, and if he wanted to be received as a tough cookie, he'd have to do what it took. I think that that election was what made his peers finally sit up and take notice. He was nobody until he knocked off Alice Palmer. And his peers, I think, secretly admired his ability to do that, even though some of those folks were supporters of Alice Palmer.
NORRIS: Even though Obama had earned his party's respect, he faced significant challenges. He still had to penetrate a political machine that usually required a hometown pedigree. He had no family connections, no neighborhood network. But he did know a lot about grassroots organizing. And as a student of Chicago politics, he picked up a key lesson. Politicians are as powerful as their patrons. Jerry Kellman knows this well. He hired Obama to come to Chicago and work as a community organizer. And over the years, he watched Obama build his network.
Mr. JERRY KELLMAN (Director, Institute for Spiritual Leadership): Barack is wonderful at finding mentors, but not emotional mentors or mentors to advance his career, but mentors he can learn from. He's just hungry, and he'll attach himself to all kinds of people. Not even people necessarily of status, but anybody who can teach him something.
NORRIS: Notice that Kellman said Obama is wonderful at finding mentors. That's an important detail. Kellman and many others told us that Obama doesn't wait for people to take him under their wing. He's much more assertive, tracking down powerful fundraisers and people that could help him maneuver for key committee assignments in the State Senate.
State Senator EMIL JONES (Democrat, 14th District, Illinois; President, Illinois Senate): Well, my first impression, really, of Barack, he was very intelligent but rather pushy at the time, you know.
NORRIS: That's Emil Jones, president of the Illinois Senate and one of the most powerful figures in Illinois politics. After winning a State Senate seat, Obama quickly pushed his way into Jones' good graces. And when Obama was contemplating a run for the U.S. Senate, he turned to Jones, using a combination of chutzpa and flattery.
State Senator JONES: He came to me, and he said to me, he said, you're the Senate president now. You have a lot of power. I said, what kind of power do you think I have? He said, you have the power to make a United States senator. I said, that sounds good and everything. I said, I had never even thought about it, which I hadn't. I said, if I have that kind of power, do you know of anyone I can make? And he said, me.
NORRIS: Now, this was a very gutsy move for a junior state senator, and a little history will help you understand why. Obama was ambitious, but he was far from a political star in Chicago's largely black South Side, a fact that had been made painfully obvious when Obama challenged incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the 2000 Democratic primary and lost badly.
So here was a young politician who couldn't win a congressional seat in his own neighborhood asking one of the state's political kingmakers to back him for a statewide race. Furthermore, Obama wanted Jones to help him leapfrog over a line of more established and much more powerful politicians. Bold, huh?
Well, it turns out, that's exactly what happened. One reason, Jones knew that even though Obama had limited appeal in his district, he had wide appeal beyond Chicago's largely black South Side. And Jones offered this story to make his point. Back when Obama was running for his U.S. Senate seat, Jones was traveling with the candidate in southern Illinois, an area known for being white, rural, and conservative.
State Senator JONES: You know, I'm sitting across the table from this little old, white lady, and she made the most profound statement. She said to me, you know, I'm 84-years-old. I certainly hope I live longer though. This young man - speaking of Barack - is going to be president one day. And I want to be around to vote for him. That was her first time meeting him.
NORRIS: That underscores another important lesson Obama learned in Chicago, the importance of building multiethnic coalitions. South Side black politicians traditionally build bedrock black constituencies by standing up to the white establishment. Obama embraced it. He was eager to lock arms with white leaders in politics and business says Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington.
Ms. WASHINGTON: When he was a state senator, he was raising money from folks outside his district, which was really unheard of at the time.
NORRIS: How did he get away with that? Because a lot of people view those sort of patrons and benefactors with great suspicion.
Ms. WASHINGTON: I think, at the outset, because he started when he was a state senator, he was so far under the radar no one was paying attention to him. He wasn't perceived as a threat to anyone.
NORRIS: In Obama's case, geography made a difference. His state senate district was in Hyde Park, a multiethnic enclave in the heart of Chicago's black belt. Hyde Park is home to the University of Chicago and much of the city's black elite. Emil Jones knew those financial, intellectual, and social power centers all could help Obama launch a credible Senate bid.
Mr. BEN CALHOUN (Political Reporter, Chicago Public Radio): There is this bubble of Hyde Park where things that aren't politically possible in other parts of the city are politically possible there.
NORRIS: Ben Calhoun is a political reporter with Chicago Public Radio.
Mr. CALHOUN: You don't have to become a precinct captain. You don't have to look for an opportunity to run for state rep and then run for state Senate and then maybe some - you know, decade down the line, run for Congress or the U.S. Senate. He was able to just - not do an end run, but to sort of go through the side door. He, you know, just sort of slipped around the normal ladder that Chicago politics requires people to slowly work their way up.
NORRIS: Hyde Park is an island of independence that seems to be always locked in battle with the Democratic machine that runs the city. Politicians from Hyde Park who dare to cozy up to that machine have a hard time rounding up re-election votes. Obama forged a new path. The more powerful he became, the more he embraced the machine, but very carefully, says Chicago reporter Ben Calhoun.
Mr. CALHOUN: If you look at his relationship with machine politics in Chicago, you see a very careful and well-planned relationship. He made certain alliances. He made certain endorsements. He embraced people when he needed to. But at the end of the day, he also always maintained a certain buffer between regular machine politics. But he only did that by getting to know it and getting to know what that machine wanted and how it worked.
NORRIS: So he didn't get oil on his hands?
Mr. CALHOUN: Exactly.
NORRIS: While we were in Chicago, we talked to many people who helped launch Obama's early career. They're proud of the Democratic nominee and pleased that they share a piece of history. But as to those lessons - how to be tough, how to work the system, how to survive - several people expressed a certain discomfort about how Obama used that Chicago education as a star continued to rise. Hyde Park political activist Alan Dobry.
Mr. DOBRY: I'm afraid he learned to go along. Or as a fellow I know, another committeeman, Bull Jive Taylor, used to say to me, Alan, why don't you go along? It will be so much easier. Everything would be so much smoother. And I think Barack learned to go along. It may get him elected president, but it doesn't make me happy.
NORRIS: Dobry is supporting Obama, but he's not exactly enthusiastic.
Mr. DOBRY: And so I will vote for him, but not - how should I say it? - full out he's the second coming or something, but rather that's the best we can do.
NORRIS: You expected more? Or something different?
Mr. DOBRY: Well, when he started out and we worked very hard for him, I thought we were getting something a little different.
NORRIS: Tomorrow, we'll take a look at how Obama came to Chicago and how he used what he learned as a community organizer to launch his political career. Next week, we'll look at how John McCain's background in Arizona and Washington has shaped who he is today. And, as always, there's more stories about the candidates at npr.org.
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