Forget drawing network maps or sending your network management software on an epic tour of auto-discovery: a group getting ready to launch an open-source “network complexity scoring” tool says it's all about the endpoint. Infoblox, part of the Flowforwarding.org SDN (software defined networking) community, is prepping the …

COMMENTS

House rules Send corrections

This topic is closed for new posts.

Thursday 26th September 2013 02:04 GMT Mother Hubbard

>> The equation (below as an image) is a statistical expression of the size of sub-communities in the network, based on the statistical concept of the H-index.

Bloody genius!

So now we can standardise the X-axis complexity milestones - from lowest to highest complexity;

- Home / Small Office

- LAN Party

- Telco

- Homogeneous global enterprise (Facebook / Amazon / Google / Twitter / Salesforce)

- Legacy global enterprise (IBM / HP / Microsoft)

- Any Data Centre more than 30 years old (National Governments, Universities, Hospitals)

- HAL

- Orac

- Amanfrommars

- We will add your distinctiveness to our own

- R2D2

1 0
Thursday 26th September 2013 04:30 GMT jake

Spanning tree, in other words.

Whatever.

See Radia Perlman's work when she was at DEC.

(I know you hate the lime-light, bud, but you really deserve a pat on the back, IMO.)

0 1
1. Thursday 26th September 2013 09:27 GMT Lord Elpuss
  
  Re: Spanning tree, in other words.
  
  This is not 'Whatever' material. It has the potential to be genuinely extremely useful, not to mention being a very creative way of looking at topography and analysing bottlenecks. STP is complementary to this approach.
  
  Tapestry != STP.
  
  1 2
Thursday 26th September 2013 08:16 GMT Gareth Gouldstone

Older Tapestry

Remember this?

http://www.cbronline.com/news/torus_systems_launches_tapestry_6_pack

How time (and technology) flies.

1 0
Thursday 26th September 2013 09:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

Not getting it

Based on the info in this article, and a pdf from the linked website, I'm far from convinced that measuring the number of DNS queries vs hosts on my network, and turning this into a number using an equation == measuring the complexity of my network

What if they spend their whole day on Facebook. Is that "My Network", or do we magically exclude all DNS requests that aren't part of my network from analysis? If so, how do I include cloud services?

It's very unclear how this is supposed to anything useful to me that I couldn't already do by analysing DNS logs on my existing DNS servers

0 0