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ARIN recently announced that they handed out the last /8 IPv4 address allocations (read about it trials of IPv6. When will we run out of IPv4 addresses? Well, it will [...]

Mar 14, 2011 – ‘Quality of Service: Best Practices You Can Implement Today’ – 10:30am Mar 14, 2011 – ‘Network Security’  – 4:15pm Terry Slattery will be speaking at a [...]

Cisco Systems has several Android applications either in circulation or in the hopper. One I have been waiting for is Cisco Mobile for Android OS. Cisco recently announced the future release of Cisco Mobile for Android in the Collaboration Community blog and the data sheet has been released on CCO.…

I did a post last week titled v6RD. Packet Pushers Podcasts: IPv6 For the Win! Part 2 There are real reasons to move to IPv6. I recall a few statistics [...]

This year was the first year that Chesapeake NetCraftsmen attended the HIMSS conference. Renee Wagner and myself attended the first couple of days and we were very impressed with the turn out. HIMSS is an exciting environment and the sheer number of participants and exhibitors was awesome to say the…

The topic of Data Center Interconnect at L2, and failover between data centers, seems to be a hot topic! I’d like to briefly note some of the great interaction that’s [...]

I originally wrote about the 95th Percentile calculation several years ago as a Tech Tip for the Netcordia web site. It is time to talk about 95th percentile here, where [...]

The Yankee Group, recently wrote a blog about Applied Infrastructure blog under

Terry Slattery, Steve Meyer, and I just published a high level white paper on Medical Grade Network Design and Operation. It describes how to design and operate a converged network [...]

I’ve been looking at ways that people prepare for the CCIE Routing and Switch lab. While reviewing the Cisco Learning Network (CLN) site, I noticed that there were actually two [...]

This blog provides a link to the CMUG presentation on Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) I gave in Columbia, MD on 1/19/11. I have also added some supplementary info you [...]

One of the vendors at the Cradlepoint, which makes a wireless modem that works over celular 3G/4G networks. One of their products is a personal WiFi hotspot – you’ve probably [...]