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Why APIs Matter
APIs (application programming interfaces) are no longer just a technical detail of interest to computer scientists. Banks, for example, are launching…
Bruce Davie
May 9
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Narrow Waists and Big Ideas
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…
Larry Peterson
Apr 25
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Decentralizing Cellular Networks
This week we’re turning our attention to the possible decentralization of the “mobile packet core”, which promises a significant departure from how…
Bruce Davie
Apr 11
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Overtaken By Events
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…
Larry Peterson
Mar 28
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SDN and the Alignment of Planets
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…
Bruce Davie
Mar 14
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Venn Diagram Engineering
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…
Larry Peterson
Feb 28
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Was MPLS Necessary?
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…
Bruce Davie
Feb 14
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Read Section 8
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…
Larry Peterson
Jan 31
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Always in the Kitchen at Parties
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…
Bruce Davie
Jan 17
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Light Reading for the New Year
“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…
Bruce Davie
Jan 3
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TCP x 5G: Mind the Gap
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…
Larry Peterson
Dec 20, 2021
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Applying Cloud Native Principles to Wireless Networks
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…
Bruce Davie
Dec 6, 2021
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