Blog for Technologists

Through some of the work I’ve recently done, I’ve learned more about what products and services Equinix provides. This blog will discuss one of the services Equinix offers, one which [...]

In doing designs lately, I’ve been increasingly running into situations where I have to think hard about using a traditional router or an L3 switch. I’ve made some comments about [...]

I’ve decided I have some real reservations about OSPF routing. I was going to title this blog “Is OSPF Evil?” but decided that is not appropriate. At worst, OSPF is [...]

NAT can be used for many purposes, but is it as evil as some people like to think? Here are five use cases that explore its value.

What does it means to think like a systems engineer in this time of digital transformation? We explore.

I’m honored to announce that I’ve been invited to the upcoming Enterprise Connect conference to participate as a panelist for the session “visit our panel and pick our brains!

Gigamon and its partners Splunk and Phantom demonstrated improvements to network security at NFD16. APIs and integration between products from different vendors will be playing an increasing role in network [...]

A platform for intent-based networking development has some hidden gems. Who Is Apstra? Apstra is one of the companies I was looking forward to seeing at company to watch in [...]

As you’d expect, Cisco did a great job of presenting at video recordings. Cisco split its time across two topics: Cisco Cisco Intersight (Love the pun, since the latter product [...]

Gigamon used its recorded videos for the slides and the details! Gigamon representatives were kind enough to come talk with me and some other NetCraftsmen a few months back. They [...]

This blog post contains my impressions and comments about Arista’s presentations at here. My Take on Arista I mentally associate Arista with New York City, because that’s where I’ve encountered [...]

One of my customers has been converting his core 6500 switches over to Nexus 7700 switches. In the first project phase, the plan was to try to just move what [...]