The Rezopole technical team will meet you on Friday 24 May from 9am to 12pm at the Hôtel de Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
This 20th edition will focus on the interests of network automation and the issues associated with its implementation. Feedback on the automated deployment of the configurations implemented on LyonIX in recent months will also be provided.
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Altice-SFR / Isère Fibre and Rezopole are pleased to invite you to the 57th edition of the Aperezo which will take place on Wednesday 15th May at Family Kitchen in Grenoble from 6:30 pm to 10 pm.
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Isère Fibre is a Public Service Delegation of SFR FTTH, a subsidiary of the Altice-SFR group.
It operates the Public Initiative Network of the Department of Isère, which aims to make more than 98% of Isère households and businesses eligible for very high departmental broadband by 2024.
This major project is based on the implementation of 109 NROs (Optical Connection Nodes) and the deployment of nearly 10,000 kilometres of fibre optic arteries throughout the department. It will eventually reach more than 466 municipalities and nearly 450,000 households. This ambitious project represents a global investment of nearly half a billion euros. The construction of the structuring part of this very high speed Public Initiative Network as well as the construction of the 109 NROs intended to house the active equipment, are ensured by the Department.
With the creation of an average of 80,000 connectable outlets per year, Isère is thus building the largest departmental public initiative network in France, in record time. On 25 January 2019, the Department of Isère announced the launch of the marketing of the first 15,000 optical fibre outlets in 14 municipalities of the Isère THD (Très Haut Débit) network.
http://www.iserefibre.fr/
Altice France is the leading player in the convergence between telecoms and media in France.
Through SFR, the 2nd largest French operator, Altice France is a key player in the telecoms sector serving 22 million customers. With the first optical fibre network (FTTB/FTTH) with 12.6 million eligible outlets, SFR also covers nearly 99% of the 4G population.
SFR has significant positions in the entire market, whether with the general public, companies, local authorities or operators.
Altice France is also a leading media group with 14 television channels, 2 radio stations and 5 press titles, based on iconic brands such as BFM, RMC, Libération and L'Express. Whether through its digital kiosk, its portfolio of sports rights, the production, financing or purchase of original and exclusive content, Altice France invents new publishing and distribution models open to all.
In 2018, Altice France generated revenues of €10.2 billion.
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See you at the Family Kitchen in Grenoble on May 15th! Isère Fibre, a subsidiary of Altice-SFR, and Rezopole invite you to the 1st Aperezo of the year on Isère soil.
On the agenda: presentation of the project for the digital development of the territory followed by a cocktail reception with Italian scents.
In this document, you will find a retrospective of our actions and events in Rezopole over the past year. Among the information to remember: the opening of a new IXP in Annecy, named AnnecIX, with two members already in place; the arrival of new members such as the major content provider Akamai; the achievement of Datadock certification allowing support for the training courses offered by Rezopole; and of course the must-see Aperezo events held in Grenoble last June and November. Much more information is detailed in this new annual report.
We invite you to download it in pdf format from this link.
Have a good reading!
Driven by a booming cloud infrastructure market, hardware and software spending in DataCenters increased by 17% in 2018. A global market dominated by Dell EMC followed by Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Huawei. Investments driven by a "growing demand" for public cloud services and the need for "ever richer" configuration according to Synergy Research Group, which publishes these figures. As a result, the average selling price of enterprise servers has skyrocketed.
In more detail, spending on infrastructure purchases for the public cloud increased by 30% compared to 13% for those directed at equipping enterprise data centers. "Cloud services revenues continue to grow by nearly 50% per year," said John Dinsdale, analyst at Synregy Research Group. "SaaS and e-commerce revenues are each increasing by about 30%. All these factors contribute to a significant increase in spending on public cloud infrastructure," he adds.
The public cloud market is dominated by the MDGs, which account for the largest share of cumulative revenue. On the brand side, Dell EMC is ahead of Cisco, HPE and Huawei. Dell EMC is also a leader in the private cloud market, followed by Microsoft, HPE and Cisco. These four providers are the leaders in the non-Cloud Data Center market, but in a different order.
Total revenue from Data Center equipment, including both cloud and non-cloud hardware and software, is $150 billion in 2018, the analyst said. The Data Center infrastructure market is 96% composed of servers, operating systems, storage, networking and software. Network security and management software represent the rest.
By segment, Dell EMC leads in terms of server and storage revenue. Cisco, on the other hand, overlooks the network segment. Then there are Microsoft, HPE, VMware, Lenovo, Inspur, NetApp and Huawei, which recorded the strongest growth in one year.
"We are also seeing relatively strong growth in infrastructure spending in enterprise data centers, with more complex workloads, hybrid cloud requirements, increased server functionality and higher component costs being the main drivers," concludes Dinsdale.
Source : Le Monde Informatique
In the Wall Street Journal the company decided to talk about this disproportionate operation, called "Simba". Very few details have so far been revealed about the project. We only know that it would be connected to existing access points, particularly on some beaches on the east, north and west coasts.
Surrounding Africa with a gigantic submarine fibre optic cable would allow almost the entire population to enjoy the Internet. Facebook knows that to extend, it must absolutely attack this continent inhabited by more than 1.2 billion people and which is not yet very well connected to the rest of the world. This is due to infrastructure that is still under development and completely uncovered areas. So if several million Africans could connect to the Internet tomorrow and create a Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram account, the social network would save a lot of users in a very short time.
However, there would not yet be a signed agreement for the installation of this huge cable. And this is not the first time Facebook has talked about installing an underwater cable to connect the world. Facebook was pulling a transatlantic cable over 6,500 kilometers long, Marea, in 2017 with the help of Microsoft. The installation began in 2016 and provided a stable connection in 2018 by connecting Virginia Beach, United States to Bilbao, Spain.
Source : Siècle Digital
While power outages are a frequent cause of data center outages, they are no longer the only ones. Indeed, IT system failures and network errors are causing more and more failures. That's why the Uptime Institute looked at known outages to find out what caused unplanned service interruptions. To do this, the company has analyzed 162 service interruptions reported in traditional and social media over the past three years.
27 outages were reported in the media in 2016, 57 in 2017 and 78 in 2018. "Service outages are increasingly making headlines in the media," said Andy Lawrence, the Institute's Executive Director of Research. This does not necessarily mean that the number of failures is skyrocketing, but rather that downtime is attracting more and more attention. "It is clear that for users, the impact of outages is certainly more damaging today," he adds.
The study revealed that in global outages, network and IT system problems are more often blamed than those related to power supply. This is explained by the fact that power supply systems are more reliable than in the past and that there are fewer power outages in data centers.
At the same time, the increasing complexity of IT environments is causing a growing number of IT and network problems. "Data is now dispersed in multiple locations, with critical dependencies on the network, on how applications are architected and on how databases replicate each other. It is a very complex system, and it now takes fewer events to disrupt its operation," said Todd Trader, Vice President of Optimization and IT Strategy at the Uptime Institute.
This trend is all the more pronounced when comparing causes from one year to the next. 28% of outages were due to power supply problems in 2017 compared to 11% the following year. IT system failures remained relatively constant: 32% in 2017 and 35% in 2018. Outages due to network problems have increased significantly, from 19% in 2017 to 32% in 2018. "Things are linked not to one or two sites but to three or four or more sites, or even more, The network plays an increasingly important role in computer resilience," says Todd Traver.
In order to be able to distinguish an interruption that can threaten the activity of a company from a just disturbing failure, the Uptime Institute has developed an evaluation grid with a scale of 5 levels:
This analysis was further developed by researchers who specifically identified the origin of data center failures.
The most common reasons for failures when the network is down:
For IT, the most common causes are:
When the power supply fails, the reasons for the failures are:
"In general, companies should pay more attention to the resilience of data centers. They need to know their architectures, to understand all the interdependencies, to identify the reasons for failures, to plan solutions in case of failure. However, this last aspect is often neglected," adds Todd Traver.
Source : Le Monde Informatique
Lyon deserved to have a Carrier Hôtel Neutre on its territory.
This is thanks to HosTELyon, which, after six months of renovation, presented its brand new
120-bay data center, mainly oriented interco Telecom.
An afterwork punctuated by the traditional dinner cocktail.
Find the main pictures of the evening here.
Photographe : Marine-Agathe GONARD / AGATHE PHOTOS
100% open source and community-focused, Nextcloud allows you to store your documents, contacts, photos and manage your calendar. The main new feature: instant messaging for live chat and organize videoconferences.
This service is available free of charge to all our members. To do this, simply create an account at the following address: nextcloud.rezopole.net. Users of Owncloud services are also invited to switch to Nextcloud.
The service is centralized on Rezopole's infrastructures, which provides a better quality of transfer for participants in Rezopole's IXPs, but also for users (companies, local authorities, etc.) whose ISPs work on this node.
More informations here.
Sorry for the latecomers but the event is sold out. We are closing the registrations today.
HosTELyon and Rezopole are looking forward to meeting you on April 10th.
Meet at the Sapristi brewery, from 6:30 pm, to share professional experiences and good humour.
Signed on 28 March, this strategic agreement between the two operators of French operators was concluded for a period of 20 years. It concerns access to their respective infrastructures.
Indeed, Kosc Telecom provides its FFTH collection infrastructure via its bitstream offer. This allows its new partner to enrich its catalogue of services and complete its offer of residential collection on existing copper support (xDSL).
Ielo-Liazo, for its part, is opening up access to its national fibre network via a new industrial NRO optical unbundling offer. This will enable Kosc Telecom to deliver high quality services and strengthen the national coverage of its Enterprise Fibre network.
This long-term partnership between these two operators, specialists in the wholesale of telecom products, represents for Ielo-Liazo a concrete application of its strategy aimed at offering the enterprise market a unified infrastructure offer for operators. While it is a complementary step for Kosc in its strategy to offer its customers operators 100% of the lines available in France.
Source : Kosc Telecom
Installing a distribution box, locating a defect on a fiber, performing a reflectometry measurement... Essential steps that an optical fiber technician must know how to master.
Faced with the urgent need to train these professionals, the association of the École des Plombiers du Numérique and the Infranum federation, with the support of Opcalia and several manufacturers in the sector (Telenco, Sogetrel, Spie), have launched the manual platform.lesplombiersdunumerique.org. These 25 online tutorials present the different specialties of this profession in order to accelerate the mastery of these gestures.
In the form of a thematic sheet, each tutorial is based on a didactic video, photos and detailed explanations. 10 to 15 minutes are enough to integrate the learning. They will serve as a basis for teaching the fibre profession in the 9 Plumbers of Digital Plumbing schools, but they can be used by everyone, in particular to support the development of manufacturers in the digital infrastructure sector and the associated training needs.
This knowledge base is intended to be enriched by all the actors of the sector in order to professionalize it. The platform that hosts them is open to all for free.
Source : InfraNum
The UFC-Que Choisir has published the results of its exclusive observatory of fixed Internet speeds. This is a negative result since we are very far from the operators' promises at 500 Mb/s, 1 Gb/s and even 10 Gb/s.
Even if subscribers are not fooled, the gap between the ads and reality is so large that it becomes absurd. This observatory therefore makes it possible to take stock of the Internet speeds that the French really benefit from and to draw three lessons from them.
1. Real flows light years away from those promised
Most operators offer their connected customers "up to 20 megabits/s" in ADSL. When we're barely at 8 Mbps actually. For Very High Speed, the gap is even higher. The actual average throughput is rather around 175 Mb/s while operators report 500 Mb or even 1 Gb per second.
Of course, these figures are only averages and they depend on other factors for which operators are not necessarily responsible. Nevertheless, the gap with the promised flow is gigantic.
2. 2 to 5 times lower flow in rural areas
The data from the observatory are unquestionable: the smaller the municipality, the lower the average flow rate. In ADSL, the difference ranges from a simple to a double: from an average of 9.1 Mb/s in cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants to 5.2 Mb/s in villages with less than 1,000 inhabitants.
The gap is even more obvious for Very High Speed connections. On average, 284 Mbps is surfed in large cities when an average speed of less than 100 Mbps is sufficient in municipalities with less than 3,000 inhabitants. And, it drops to 49 Mb/s in towns with less than 1,000 inhabitants.
3. Fiber optics, there's nothing better
The fact that the differences between cities and rural areas in terms of Very High Speed Internet access are so large is largely due to the technologies used. The inhabitants of large cities are mainly connected by FTTH (fibre to the subscriber). But those in small municipalities and villages too often have to be satisfied with less efficient solutions such as VDSL. While this improved ADSL theoretically allows a throughput of 100 Mb/s, it suffers a very high signal loss and only customers residing less than 1 km from the connection node can benefit from a higher throughput than ADSL.
In medium-sized cities, a significant number of subscribers are also connected via FTTB (Fiber to the building, or cable). While it is largely sufficient for the majority of Internet users, this technology suffers from a few defects such as a lower upload rate or a longer latency time.
Source : UFC-Que Choisir
In order to launch the new generation of mobile networks, operators must be allocated frequencies by the end of the year. The first 5G antennas will thus be able to flourish and the flow rates will explode as early as 2020.
Across Europe, the 5G flagship band is the one between 3.4 GHz and 3.8 GHz - 400 MHz theoretically available to operators to water their customers with high-speed Internet.
The only problem is that, in France, this strip is already partially occupied by tenants who have no desire to empty the premises before the end of their lease in 2026. Among these cumbersome tenants are the Wimax licensees. This radio technology from the early 2000s was intended to provide broadband in rural areas through dedicated radio antennas.
A household is required and concerns two actors who are seated on 30MHz each: Bolloré Télécom (now Wifirst) throughout France and SFR in Ile-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Arcep cannot therefore revoke their rights of use, even though frequencies are crucial for 5G. And Bolloré knows it. He is ideally placed today to recover. All he has to do is wait. The manufacturer can sit on it until 2026, use it himself to make 5G or even rent these frequencies to a third party.
But to make matters worse, the Arcep cut the 5G gang again a few months ago. The Telecom Constable has dedicated 50 MHz of his 400 MHz stock to "THD Radio" as part of the government plan to provide Very High Speed Internet access to all French people by 2022. And this until 2026.
On the Arcep side, it is stated that "there are no difficulties". Embarrassed, however, the regulator explained to Les Echos last summer that there could well be "only" 280 MHz of spectrum to auction... 30% less than the 400 MHz identified by Europe. Since the Authority has been studying its options, but nothing is moving.
Source : Les Echos.fr
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