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Facebooks head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giants own infrastructure.

SDN is the way things are going to be. It is not a fad. This will be the way the networks will be built going forward, said Najam Ahmad, director of technical operations at Facebook, who oversees Facebooks production and corporate network. Prior to joining Facebook, Ahmad worked as general manager of global networking services at Microsoft.

Ahmad was part of a panel about SDN at the New York Interop New York conference, held this week. He spoke with the IDG News Service afterward.

SDN has generated a lot of discussion at this years Interop. Many wondered if it is just this years buzz phrase, or as others believe, the future of networking.

For Ahmad, SDN solves an important problemmaking Facebooks network as flexible as the rest of its IT stack. We want to deploy, manage, monitor, and fix the network using software, Ahmad said.

Todays switches, routers and other network equipment stymies Facebook from making the most efficient use of its network and the Internet, he said. The company needs to reduce its network latency as much as possible, simply in order to remain responsive to its billion users scattered around the globe.

Admittedly, Facebook doesnt manage its network with typical network operation center (NOC)-styled operations, in which network administrators monitor screens for alerts and then fix problems as they arise.

Instead, the company aggressively automates network management as much as possible, by writing scripts that can anticipate and mitigate issues before they come up, as well as to maximize network performance.

Facebook has been limited, however, by its networking equipment. With traditional networking, you buy a box. You get command line interface, and protocols, but that is all you get, Ahmad said.

Ahmad has felt frustrated, for instance, when finding a certain issue in some networking gear could only be addressed by the vendor dialing directly into the equipment itself and issuing secret commands to an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), commands not available to customers through the standard command line interface (CLI).

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At a time when the mosquito-borne West Nile virus is still a potential killer, health officials are worried that a reorganization plan by the Morris County Freeholders will cut mosquito control efforts.

The freeholders plan to eliminate the all-volunteer Morris County Mosquito Extermination Commission, and fold the paid mosquito control staff that the commission oversees into the countys Department of Planning and Public Works.

The proposed reorganization is expected to go into effect after the freeholders January reorganization.

The plan comes not long after a 92-year-old Morris County resident died Aug. 31 after contracting West Nile.

This past summers first detection of infected mosquitoes in Morris County was on Aug. 1 at Donatoni Community Park on West Main Street in Rockaway. A week later, the park and surrounding woods, path and access road were treated by the mosquito commission.

As of Sept. 27, mosquitoes carrying West Nile have been found in 44 pools in Morris County, according to the N.J. Department of Health.

Morris County Freeholder David Scapicchio, former mayor of Mount Olive Township, maintained the reorganization wont affect mosquito control programs, but it will save money.

Nothing is changing other than were folding the office responsibilities into Public Works, Scapicchio said.

Scapicchio said that as part of the savings, the county will have to complete just one audit for both the mosquito control commission and the public works department.

Other potential savings are expected through centralized purchasing, vehicle inspection and licensing.

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 03, 2013

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The latest version of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group charterincludes provisions for ongoing work on restrictive content protection systems a decision that has angered groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Software Foundation.

The main opposition centers on the controversial Encrypted Media Extension proposal, which would build robust digital rights management capabilities directly into future HTML standards. While EME is still some distance from being officially accepted, its inclusion in the latest draft charter makes that outcome more likely.

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DRM, which is used to control access to online media content like streaming video, is a contentious topic, particularly among free and open-source software advocates.

EME, the FSF wrote in a form letter earlier this year, would expose users to a wide array of restrictions on their web experience.

"[EME] would fly in the face of the W3C's principle of keeping the Web royalty-free -- this is simply a back door for media companies to require proprietary player software. It is willful ignorance to pretend otherwise just because the proposal does not mention particular technologies or DRM schemes by name," the group said.

The EFF echoes the thrust of those remarks in a statement responding to the news that EME would be retained, saying on Wednesdaythat the group is "deeply disappointed" by the decision.

"By approving this idea, the W3C has ceded control of the "user agent" (the term for a Web browser in W3C parlance) to a third-party, the content distributor. That breaks a perhaps until now unspoken assurance about who has the final say in your Web experience, and indeed who has ultimate control over your computing device," the EFF stated.

The current draft of the charter runs through June 2015, and also included provisions for work on a dual-licensing

Email Jon Gold at jgold@nww.com and follow him on Twitter at @NWWJonGold.

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