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Over the years, I’ve done my share of troubleshooting. Sometimes it’s quick, sometimes … not. Along the way, I’ve learned to never underestimate my ability to assume something or overlook [...]

Did my Networking Field Day (#NFD13) blog about Veriflow demonstrated their product for me recently. Veriflow is a San Jose-based company, with a product based on researchers with UC Berkeley [...]

Ixia, which is known for its high-performing test tools, started its presentations at Networking Field Day 13 (#NFD13) by making the point that their testing tools let them load test [...]

At the closing session of Tech Field Day 12 (Docker presented on the significant new features in Docker networking. I and some of the Microsoft nano server”). Some Thoughts My [...]

I was recently troubleshooting an SVI issue with a pair Nexus 7000 switches. The switches were a vPC pair, and had been set up a couple of years ago. I [...]

There were two SD-WAN vendors at Khalid Reza’s blog (Viptela) and responded to #NFD13’s Ethan Banks on some questions, including some that touch on this topic. The Viptela hardware devices [...]

Network Field Day 13 was my second encounter with the smart people at VeloCloud. Just as in VeloCloud provided an awesome series of presentations to the report by Mike Fratto. [...]

The App-ID and content-ID engines of the Palo Alto next generation firewall (NGFW) identify the application in use by examining the traffic/packets within a session. Once the firewall has seen [...]

SolarWinds The NetPath tool, a supplement to its Network Performance Monitor (NPM) product.If “improved multi-path aware TCP-based traceroute on steroids” grabs your attention, read on! Some Background SolarWinds produces relatively [...]

#NFD13 attendees (techno-geeks at heart). All demo action and little marketing talk wins techie friends! I recommend viewing the streaming videos just to appreciate the different approach and enthusiasm. What [...]

Forward Networks came out of stealth with a great presentation at Networking Field Day 13. The company was founded by four Stanford PhDs and is funded by some of the [...]

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