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Interop 2017 Reflections
Interop is changing, thats a good thing. After 31 years, the Interop conference is one of the last independent conferences where the focus is on the person paying for the ticket and less “rolling sales thunder” from the vendors. Thats good for attendees who get to hear genuine, thoughtful content that hasn’t been selected based […]
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Can’t Find Qualified People
When a business leader says I can't find enough qualified people, I hear......
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Cord-cutting explodes – Axios
Cord cutting is an existential threat to MPLS
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Cisco working to regain control of the network edge in containers
Gets into the future of container networking via CNCF.
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SecurityTarget Data Breach Lawsuits Are Settled | Fortune.com
Target gets out of its security breach quite cheaply I think.
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IETF RFC8159 Keyed IPv6 Tunnel
Yet another L2oL3 overlay. Because we don't have enough of them.
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Ethernet is 44 Years Old
Its doesn’t make me feel old. It makes me sad that we can’t change. Ethernet's 44th birthday is Monday. I sketched this to include in a typed memo on May 22, 1973 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. pic.twitter.com/M6rHpO5XCr — Bob Metcalfe (@BobMetcalfe) May 20, 2017
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What Does Network Telemetry Replace ?
I’ve been thinking about what Network Telemetry will change in network equipment. It was this slide from Cisco Live that gave me a starting point: What it highlights is that poor quality of tools for troubleshooting. We have the CLI and Packet Capture. The CLI is expensive to operate because it requires highly trained and […]
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RFC 1438 – Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)
Its meant to be funny but its not.
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Rant: Microsoft attempts to shift blame onto NSA
Microsoft attempts to shift some blame, reduce brand damage by attacking the NSA (which can’t fight back)
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Response: Verizon unlocks the power of open source and virtualization with the addition of new whitebox
OpenStack as Customer CPE for Verizon. That must be upsetting.
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Full Stack Journey 004: Brent Salisbury
Brent Salisbury is today's guest on Full Stack Journey. As someone who transitioned from network engineer to software developer, Brent is ideally suited to share his experiences.
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Full Stack Journey 004: Brent Salisbury
Brent Salisbury is today's guest on Full Stack Journey. As someone who transitioned from network engineer to software developer, Brent is ideally suited to share his experiences.
Research: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2017
Must read report to stay informed on security.
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Quick Take – Viptela Acquired By Cisco
Greg and Ethan record a quick podcast take on Cisco's acquisition of Viptela.
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Apache Foundation hails Metron as new top level project for cybersecurity • The Register
The pre-cursor to Cisco Tetration is high profile.
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Invasion of the Hardware Snatchers: Cloned Electronics Pollute the Market – IEEE Spectrum
The integrity of the physical supply is an underestimated risk.
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Response: Don’t believe the non-programming hype – Paul’s blog
Paul Gear has a great response to a recent Packet Pushers Weekly episode on programming/automation and this particular view that I agree with: Programming isn’t hype; programming is a fundamental IT skill. If you don’t understand the basics of computer architecture (e.g. CPU instruction pointers, registers, RAM, stacks, cache, etc.) and how to create instructions […]
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9 Easy Ways to Break a Cisco Network
Every day operation of a Cisco router is likely to cause failure.
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Response: Why a new routing stack? – Russ White
Some background on the Free Range Routing project.
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