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Some recent QoS discussions got me thinking. I want to share some of my perspectives on QoS in the hope that you find them useful. The starting point here is [...]

All right, who applied the curse “may you live in interesting times”? COVID, climate change, floods, fires, and so on have us thinking about disaster planning, among other things. Nationally, [...]

I’ve recently had the pleasure of being involved in some long-term discussions about replacing the building switches and core network for a medium-sized city’s network. That was at the initial [...]

I’m shocked. There is a reasonably good topic I failed to blog about! It’s not like I didn’t write about it. I’ve expounded on this topic in several design writeups [...]

This is part 2 of a long blog. You should probably start with Part 1 if you haven’t already read it! Given the title, I hasten to state that nothing [...]

Given the title, I hasten to state that nothing crude is meant. If you hate your firewall, let’s not go there. Just trying to get your attention. Now that I [...]

This blog represents some thoughts I’ve been mulling over for a while since my last large network assessment. Looking at it from the Cisco perspective, but also from what I’m [...]

I just became aware of AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager. (“AWSTGNM”) I’m not sure how I missed it, seeing as I’ve become a fan of transit gateways. It was announced [...]

This blog attempts to answer the question, “What Is NaaS?”. However, I’m limiting this to NaaS for enterprises. What the acronym stands for is simple: NaaS stands for Network as [...]

This is one of a small series of blogs about tools for monitoring user experience (a fancy term for response times, drop rates, etc.). I keep coming back to this [...]

I am impressed with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation. Pretty high quality, and a lot of it. A recent customer need caused me to realize there was a gap [...]

I’m doing a couple of blogs about tools for monitoring user experience (fancy term for response times, drop rates, etc.). A prior blog covered NetBeez and started with some general [...]