During the Viva Tech exhibition, Cisco explains to the Digital Factory the "5G rural first" project carried out in the United Kingdom. Led by the American company, this consortium of 29 players aims to find a business model to deploy 5G in rural areas and enable operators to make it profitable.

"To start investing in 5G, it is not possible to rely on the consumer demand of the general public, a large part of which is connected in 4G. 5G investments are very important and people are not willing to pay more for their subscriptions", says Cisco's director of innovation, Guillaume de Saint Marc. It has to be said that we must therefore turn to BtoB and rely on the digitalization of the various industrial sectors.

The principle is to multiply the pilots and experiments with 5G, 4G or WiFi. To this end, four industrial sectors, developed outside cities, were explored: AgriTech, transport, energy and tourism.

The fields of energy and tourism have been explored in the north of Scotland. On the tourism side, ferries were connected throughout their journeys, allowing connectivity to all passengers and a constant link between ferries and captains.

On the energy side, this territory has three offshore wind farms. It is necessary to connect them in order to "anticipate and understand the production level at a given moment and be able to absorb the energy produced by these wind turbines in real time", explains Guillaume de Saint Marc.

In the agricultural sector, the start-up Afimilk offers connected collars to monitor the temperature, rumination cycle, heart rate of cows...

In parallel, a project to identify soil quality by drone was carried out. "This is not new, but 5G is accelerating the deployment of these technologies", said Cisco's Director of Innovation.

But that's not all, since there are many uses: connect a salmon farm, monitor the water in some schools to detect legionella, test broadcast via 5G.  The aim is always to minimize the cost of its development by multiplying these uses.

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Source : L'Usine Digitale

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.

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

In the 2018 edition of its Visual Networking Index (VNI), Cisco announced that IP traffic is expected to triple in five years to 4.8 zettaocytes by 2022 (396 exabytes per month from 122 in 2017).

This growth is mainly due to two factors: the increase in the number of Internet users and the increase in the number of connected devices. According to Cisco, 4.8 billion people will use the Internet in 2022 compared to 3.4 billion in 2017. The number of fixed and mobile connections would increase to 28.5 billion within five years, half of which would concern Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and IoT.

According to the American network equipment manufacturer's forecasts, global Internet traffic generated by consumer uses will increase from 267 exabytes per month in 2017 to 333 exabytes in 2022. Business and government traffic is expected to double and represent 16% of total IP traffic.

The network preferred by users would be the fixed Internet with 273 exabytes per month at the end of 2022. Mobile IP traffic would follow with 77 exabytes but would be ahead of managed IP with 45 exabytes per month.

Internet video is also expected to grow strongly and represent 82% of global traffic in 2022, an increase of 7 points, all networks combined.

The adoption of SD-WAN in companies is also confirmed, with traffic increasing by 37% per year.

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See you on October 09th and 10th! During these two days, you will gradually and completely approach the different aspects of BGP (peering and the use of Route Server). On the 1st day already, you set up your first session. The workshop also explains techniques for announcing and filtering networks in both IPv4 and IPv6. The training covers the operation and configuration of the BGP protocol on Bird, Cisco, Mikrotik, Quagga equipments. The BGP routing protocol is required to interconnect on an IXP.

Price: 1000 € (Ex-VAT) per attendee during 2 days (lunch included)!

This training may be covered by your OPCA (Rezopole activity number: 84691581469).

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The registration closing date is on October 02nd, 2018.

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Register-now for the BGP Workshop that will be held at the Rezopole premises in Lyon! Learn the basics and master one of the fundamental protocols of the Internet for an efficient peering.

The Rezopole BGP Workshop presents the routing BGP, the founding protocol of Internet, necessary to use Internet on an IXP, the concepts of peering and Route Servers. The workshop also explains the setup techniques to announce and filter networks, both in IPv4 and IPv6.

Train your technical team on BGP protocol:

Price: 1000 € (Ex-VAT) per attendee during 2 days (lunch included)!

Possible support by your OCPA.

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The registration closing date is on March 9th, 2018.

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L'équipe technique de Rezopole a finalisé la phase de test des équipements 100G qui s'est déroulée sur 6 semaines. Les équipements en concurrence étaient : Cisco Nexus 9236C, EdgeCore AS7712 & Huawei CE8860.

Les équipements ont été testés sur plusieurs critères : leur interopérabilité avec le protocole de Fabric Ethernet (Trill), le support des différents types de Fabric IP (VXLAN/EVPN) ainsi que leur interopérabilité dans un environnement multi-constructeur. La viabilité de plusieurs topologies a aussi été mise à l'épreuve ce qui fera l'objet d'un prochain RUG.
Au terme de cette phase de test, les équipements Huawei se sont avérés les plus adaptés à l'intégration à l'infrastructure actuelle de LyonIX. Grâce à la forte interopérabilité avec les autres équipements, à la réactivité pour l'implémentation de nouvelles caractéristiques (ex : VXLAN & EVPN), et à leur modularité permise par leur format en châssis 2U, les matériels Huawei permettent une plus grande souplesse dans la migration du 10G vers le 100G.

Register-now for the BGP Workshop that will be held at the Rezopole premises in Lyon! Learn the basics and master one of the fundamental protocols of the Internet for an efficient peering.

The Rezopole BGP Workshop presents the routing BGP, the founding protocol of Internet, necessary to use Internet on an IXP, the concepts of peering and Route Servers. The workshop also explains the setup techniques to announce and filter networks, both in IPv4 and IPv6.

Train your technical team on BGP protocol:

Tariff for 2000 € (Ex-VAT) for 2 persons during 2 days! We offer lunches!

Do you want to participate? Just send us email.

The registration closing date is on December 1st, 2017.

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The technical team of Rezopole starts a phase of 100Gb equipment tests.

As a first step, this switching equipment will be connected to the edge of the current Fabric Ethernet and in the future will become the new heart of the LyonIX networks.

During the test phase, their actual capabilities in terms of bitrate will be tested as well as the interoperability of the various manufacturers' Fabric IP solutions.


Many thanks to Cisco for the loan of a Nexus 9000, Alyséo for the loan of an EdgeCore 7712-32X, Brocade for the loan of a SLX 9240 and Huawei for the loan of a C8860-CE!!

The next RUG (Rezopole User Group) takes place on December 9th, 2016 from 9 am to 12 am at the Rezopole premises.

This edition will be about traffic flow issues, particularly its most widespread protocols (NetFlow, Sflow, IPFIX) and the difficulties of these tools' implementation essential today for retro-active analysis, accurate statistics gathering, warnings management and automations.

Program:

- Breakfast

- Topics to be dealt: Inventory of Open Source prioritary protocols and agent principal programs, collect and treatment presentation

- Round table

Inventory and stake : facilitator Ronan Bianic (Rezopole)

- The differents version, differents implementation of prioritary protocols:

a) Cisco Netflow v5, v9
b) Juniper Jflow, Cflow
c) IPFIX
d) Sflow

- Details of their differencies and respective usages

Principal agent programs, Open Source collection and treatment available on the market presentation: facilitators Noémie Clémençon and Ronan Bianic (Rezopole)

- Integrated agents: Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, Linux SoftflowD

- Nfdump/Nfsen ( demonstration as a supervision tool)

- Pmacct/Grafana

Round table :

- Participant projects' presentation

- Problems encountered during the implementation

- Elements missing traffic flow

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According to Cisco, the annual IP datacenter traffic will globally reach 10.4 Zb in 2019, including 8.6 Zb generated by the only Cloud services.

According to Global Cloud Index of Cisco, the datacenter traffic should globally triple between 2014 and 2019. It would pass from 3.4 Zb in 2014 to 10.4 Zb in 2019. And the traffic generated by the Cloud services should quadruple over the period, passing from 2.1 Zb to 8.6 Zb per year. So, the Cloud services would represent 83 % of the datacenter traffic in 2019.

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