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APIs (application programming interfaces) are no longer just a technical detail of interest to computer scientists. Banks, for example, are launching…
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One of the things we try to do in all of our books is highlight the system design principles illustrated by specific technologies. In our main book…
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This week we’re turning our attention to the possible decentralization of the “mobile packet core”, which promises a significant departure from how…
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Whatever Came of the NFV Initiative? Since our recent posts have been retracing the history (and recounting the lessons) of SDN, it seems like a good…
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We’ve been involved in some exciting moments as we’ve watched the networking landscape over the last forty-or-so years. It’s often only with hindsight…
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Open source software has been the subject of many essays, of which Eric Raymond’s insights in The Cathedral and The Bazaar still serves as a…
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One of the objectives of the original “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” book was to treat networking not as a series of artifacts that are handed…
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If (like me) you were a CS graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix—complete with the first open source implementation of TCP/IP—you know…
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Late last year I was invited to present a keynote at the Euro P4 Workshop, and I took the opportunity to revisit a topic that has held my attention for…
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“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before – and thus was the Empire forged…
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The mobile cellular network and the Internet evolved in parallel, with each treating the other as a black box. Each generation of the cellular network…
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As part of my work on the Magma project, I hear from the team about the challenges they face in getting network operators to understand how Magma…
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