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NetCraftsmen Principal Architect, Terry Slattery was featured in Network Collective’s one year anniversary community roundtable in addition to Ethan Banks, “Episode 26 – Networking War Stories Part Deux.” Terry and [...]

Latency, congestion and sluggish TCP stacks can plague application performance, but understanding data center interconnect technologies is key.  What factors influence the performance of a high-speed, high-latency data center interconnect? Redundant [...]

Giving yet another nod to the ever-expanding world of security on Cisco equipment, we’re now looking at how to set up secure SIP trunks and secure hardware conferencing using a [...]

[Columbia, MD – April, 17 2018] NetCraftsmen, a leading IT consulting company renowned for their expertise and experience, is pleased to announce that John Cavanaugh has been named as the [...]

In a prior blog, I covered Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) Fabric. If you’re asking, “what’s an Equinix?”, please see the prior blog. In that blog, we saw that Equinix can [...]

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 [...]

Design techniques and technology change. Learn why you should get a second opinion when evaluating your needs for a network refresh.

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!