WiFi setting for remote work

Now, world is isolated with Remote work and Social distancing, as I posted last week.  Here's a useful tip for internet connectivity for work from home.

You may get some IP version differences, on connecting the work site from home using vPN.  It's due to the mismatch of IP version differences between work and home.  Industry has 2 common internet protocol namely IPv4 and IPv6, where IPv6 is the new version in terms of complexity and efficiency like broadcast vs multicast, header bytes 20 vs 60, encryption and authentication.

Mostly your work network doesn't support IPv6, whereas home network supports IPv6, then you should disable IPv6 option by selecting Home WiFi properties.  IPv4 continues to be enabled.  This feature is reachable from control panel option as shown in the attached image.

Simple but essential solution for the current work from home scenario.

Social Distance Remote Work

Due to the impact of COVID19 (Corono Virus), there are 2 buzz words in our industry - "Social Distancing" & "Remote Connectivity"

Though I was motivated to ink, some of my friends encouraged me to put down my thoughts here.

My 50th LinkedIn (timely) published article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-distance-remote-work-ganesan-senthilvel

Windows Subsystem for Linux

What is WSL?
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a new Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows, alongside your traditional Windows desktop and modern store apps

How does it different?
WSL is great tool, but if you need all the power and features of a Linux system, it would be better to run your Linux instance on a Virtual Machine (VM) instead.

Implementation Steps

Step 1: Enable WSL

• Go to the option -> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features\Turn Windows Features on or off
• Enable the check box of Windows Subsystem for Linux (as posted)

Step 2: Ubuntu Store App
The latest version of Ubuntu can now be downloaded and run from inside Windows 10 via the Microsoft Store

Step 3: Launch Ubuntu LTS
After AppStore installation, Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) will be launched from Windows Start Menu

Enjoy the world of Linux inside Windows 10 box.  Happy Collaboration !!

Cloud Edge Computing

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm which brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed, to improve response times and save bandwidth

Here are the major scenarios for such cloud-edge computing development:

1. Low latency: For latency sensitive services such as 5G and IoT, running on the edge provides much lower latency and faster response time. We have seen more and more latency sensitive services being built around the public cloud ecosystem.
2. Massive data: With the rapid growth of devices and users, we’re generating massive amount of data every day. It is very costly to move device or user generated data for services to run on the cloud in real time or on a regular basis. Instead, it is more efficient to run services on the edge and to perform local data processing. In some cases, it is the only viable option and can save tremendous network cost.
3. Privacy/security: For some businesses or regions, it is required to store sensitive and/or confidential data locally on the edge (without moving to cloud) to comply with privacy law and/or security regulations.
4. Distributed cloud architecture: At the same time of adopting public cloud services, many enterprises have needs to run part of their business on locally edge servers, which challenge cloud providers to design and provide a distributed cloud architecture to their users.