Microsoft is everywhere (?)

11.April.2008
Shanghai, Nanjing Road

There I was walking through Nanjing Road, probably one of the most xeon-light illuminated street in the planet when suddenly all of the electronic advertising outdoors (the small ones, at ground floor) turned to a somehow familiar blue screen!

Is this marketing or what?…  Microsoft is really everywhere!

2007 Top Ten everything!

So… it seems true, 2007 is indeed over. It’s time to go for a “quick” 2007 review!

This year, the Light Reading folks did a very nice compilation of most interesting Telecom issues from 2007, it’s really a must read, here it goes:

• 2007 Top Ten: Optical Stories “100-Gig is awfully big, Smellabs is smarting, and Infinera makes all the right moves in our list of top optical networking stories of 2007“

• 2007 Top Ten: Cable Fables & Lessons Learned “From a bandwidth crunch to a regulatory jihad and a hammer-toting granny with ‘tude, cable had its hands full in ‘07“

• 2007 Top Ten: Big OSS Stories “IT giants and India have been at the heart of the sector’s M&A action“

• 2007 Top Ten: Services Stories “From FMC to IPTV to (voice) SMS and all the way to UMA, we give you this year’s top services stories from the Light Reading stable“

• 2007 Top Ten: Stock Rockets “Some next-gen communications stocks sizzled in 2007. Here’s our list of the year’s biggest gainers“

• 2007 Top Ten: Techs That Flopped “What’s more fun than failure?“

they even had time for a kind of 2007 Google satire!… 2007 Top Ten: Googly Moments “For a company in the business of shoving ads down our throats, Google sure covered a lot of odd terrain in 2007“

last but not the least, let’s have a look on what 2008 might have for us – 2007 Top Ten: Technologies to Watch “What technologies are going to make a big splash in the next 12 months?“

Happy new year!*

(*) – if possible, with lot’s of money on the Telecom Business…

ITU-T Recommendations

I must say ITU-T Recomendations are plain boring! (I mean… interesting )

Currently decoding G.8080/Y.1304 (06/2006) – “Architecture for the automatically switched optical network (ASON)”.

Anyway, they are needed in this ultra-tech world we are living in, it’s kind of the civil-code for Telecommunications. Whiteout them, interoperability on telecom systems would be a complete chaos. Off course, we can’t also forget about IETF!

goodbye-microsoft.com

link to a better world?

IETF vs ITU-T on T-MPLS EtherType

Did someone forgot to change the default Ethertype value on T-MPLS? it seems so…

According an article on NetworkWorld and ComputerWorld, there is a kind of “war” undergoing between IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force) and ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union) started by allegations from IETF that current T-MPLS specification by ITU-T could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers.

T-MPLS stands for Transport-MPLS and defines a suite of specifications and architectures in order to allow MPLS traffic to run over an Ethernet provider backbone. The problem seems to be on some shared codepoints (including EtherType, which is a field on Ethernet frame that indicates the protocol being transported) between T-MPLS and MPLS standards.  Since they aren’t fully compatible (due to different technology implementation), according IETF, T-MPLS should use different EtherType in order to avoid any confusion in operational networks.

It is our opinion that the use of common Ethertypes for IETF MPLS and T-MPLS in the manner in which ITU-T SG 15 is currently progressing represents a mutual danger to both the Internet and the Transport network that will carry T-MPLS and this should not be advance

You can read the IETF open-letter here: Letter from IETF to ITU regarding T-MPLS.

On the other way, ITU-T argues that T-MPLS will only be used in the provider network (encapsulating MPLS traffic from client network), as such they would be deployed in disjoint networks leaving no space for protocol conflicts.

T-MPLS working group is undergoing some meetings in Stuttgard (Germany), on which this issue should also be discussed.

I really don’t get it, why didn’t ITU-T defined a new EtherType for T-MPLS in the fist place? anyway, this also sounds a little like politics… “you stolen my EtherType idea! I will not allow it! give it back to me!” (sorry, couldn’t resist!)

Cheers!

“A picture is worth a thousand words!”… on Windows vs Linux Server

I was browsing around visualcomplexity and found a nice entry that was named “Windows vs Linux Server“… humm, I was a bit curious about it’s content, but after clicking on it, it just gave me a new meaning for the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words!”

(The credits go for Richard Stiennon, who initially published this graphic representation in a article – Why Windows is less secure than Linux – on is blog).

anyway, I do not intend to start a discussion about which is the safest server, I just liked the pictures!

Google fight over “Grid vs Distributed Computing”

Hi there!

inspired by j.pereira post over Google Fight, I also decided to take a chance and do a fight based on the previous post… check it out on Grid Computing vs Distributed Computing!

Hello world!

Hi folks! here it is, my first post, the unique “Hello World!” message… ok, maybe not unique, but for me it’s special because it’s my hello world!

have been looking around this unique message and found some funny stuff on GNU.org, have a look: How the way people code “Hello World” varies depending on their age and job

hope to see you soon!