Series of eBooks on Amazon Kindle - "Blockchain: The Hidden Gem of Data Networking"

Hi there,

It's my pleasure to share with you that I've just published the first volume of a series of eBooks on Amazon Kindle. The first volume named 'Blockchain: The Hidden Gem of Data Networking: BLAN'

The idea is beyond an eBook that the author (myself) wants the folks to buy, read & review.....It's about something bigger....A robust platform (still needs to be developed) that allows ‘blockchain’ to be leveraged to enhance the technologies that exist in the Data Networking, i.e. LAN and WAN technologies.

Note: This series of eBooks assumes some degree of familiarity with the Data Networking industry, so terms like: LAN, WAN, VLAN, VPN, MPLS, Control Plane, Overlay, Layer-2, Layer-3, Routing, Cloud, Data Center and others will be used directly without any further explanation.

In the first volume subtitled ‘BLAN’ (short for Blockchain-VXLAN); we’ll see how we could leverage blockchain to create an architecture that can connect geographically dispersed layer-2 islands over any available infrastructure (even the global public Internet).

Connecting layer-2 islands is not a new approach, we’ve seen many successful solutions that fall under the ‘Overlay Networking Technologies’ umbrella like: VXLAN, NVGRE…In this volume, we’ll see ‘BLAN’ that is the result of the integration of blockchain with VXLAN.

VXLAN was originally drafted as an overlay technology that can work without a control-plane and its scope is usually within a single administrative domain i.e. Data Center or Cloud.

BLAN can greatly enhance the operation of the ‘VXLAN’ technology by adding a control-plane component to it, and it can also extend VXLAN working domain beyond the boundary of a local Data Center (or even a public cloud).

BLAN operation across the public Internet makes it more appealing as a viable WAN option for many customers (SME, large enterprises, service providers, Telcos…) in front of conventional WAN options (like: Dedicated links, MPLS or VPN across the Internet) or modern options (like: SD-WAN).

Hope you enjoy reading the eBook and don't forget to get in touch for the next steps.