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AirPods Review
TL:DR - five out of ten. Maybe.
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Packet Pushers 2019 Audience Survey
The Packet Pushers audience survey is a necessary, pithy (and privacy protected!) survey to help us get things right.
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Dictionary: mehtopian
Enterprise IT is a mehtopian paradise
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Heavy Networking 460: Extending The Life Of Your Cabling Plant With InterOptic (Sponsored)
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by InterOptic, we explore how to extend the life of your cabling plant as you grow to 100G Ethernet. We get very nerdy on cabling, modules, lasers, and more with guests Robert Coenen, VP of Business Development at Interoptic; and Alex Latzko, lead network architect at Server Central Turing Group.
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Musing: Firefox 69 Privacy and Respect
Firefox is changing is marketing message to be a 'respectful' and 'protection'.
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Heavy Networking 458: SDN Federation – One Controller To Rule Them All?
You might have any number of software controllers in your infrastructure: one for wireless, one for SD-WAN, one in the data center, one for security, and so on. Would it be useful to federate these controllers? Can we expect the industry to produce a controller of controllers? Is this even a good idea? Today's Heavy Networking podcast ponders these questions with guest Rob Sherwood.
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Heavy Networking 457: The Future Of Networking With Dave Temkin And Steve Chalmers
Today is a wide-ranging Future of Networking episode with a pair of special guests: Dave Temkin, VP of Networks at Netflix; and Steve Chalmers, a former Distinguished Architect at HP and an independent consultant.
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Dictionary: Cerebration Session
Isaac Asimov used the term ‘cerebration session’ : It seems to me then that the purpose of cerebration sessions is not to think up new ideas but to educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts. Source Most people would know this as brain storming but you can impress managers and […]
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BiB 80: CloudGenix Cloudblades
Cloud Genix SDWAN launches a series of third party integrations aka "CloudBlades"
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BiB 80: CloudGenix Cloudblades
Cloud Genix SDWAN launches a series of third party integrations aka "CloudBlades"Juniper Mist Edge – SD Campus Emerges
Juniper’s Mist acquisition is getting a dose of the SDN Campus and its coming up in a nasty rash. The symptoms are: an overlay network using L2TPv3 (aka MPLS for ordinary people) and and software controller badged AI-driven microservice cloud architecture insight in the user experience. Actually, before we press on, this is the twaddle […]
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Analysis: Extreme Buys Aerohive. Not bad.
I’ve been trawling through the Extreme Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Aerohive Networks – Investor Presentation – https://investor.extremenetworks.com/static-files/16c92f7a-212b-48ae-86bc-aa132251b1af I’ve picked out some highlights for those people wondering about Key Takeaways Aerohive can be positioned to compete with Meraki which is good fit for existing customers. Extreme gets a basis on which to build SDWAN products that […]
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Before Ethernet and IP there was SDLC and IPX
I stumbled over this IOS configuration in a folder today. I don’t remember what or who it was for but it looks like its a Mainframe Front End Processor to IPX configuration. The FEP was likely connected using SDLC protocol on the serial interaces and IPX was operating on 16 Megabit Token Ring interface usng […]
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Response: Certifications Are Not A Big Deal. Stop Being a Princess About It.
Toothy McGrin left a comment after I talked how little effort is required to acheive a vendor certification. Its a hot topic. Here is the discussion, its about 2 minutes in. CCNA/CCNP may not be a big deal in the circles you travel in, but for a lot of employees and employers they […]
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Video: Ergonomics Expert Explains How to Set Up Your Desk – WSJ
I have the impression that I ‘know’ most of this but a refresher put it back to top of mind.
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Tech Bytes: Intent Engineering And Intelligent Networking With Gluware (Sponsored)
Gluware sponsors today's Tech Bytes episode. Greg Ferro and Gluware CEO Jeff Gray discuss network automation, how Gluware's software works, how it lets you solve immediate problems in your current environment while working toward intent, and more.
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Tech Bytes: Intent Engineering And Intelligent Networking With Gluware (Sponsored)
Gluware sponsors today's Tech Bytes episode. Greg Ferro and Gluware CEO Jeff Gray discuss network automation, how Gluware's software works, how it lets you solve immediate problems in your current environment while working toward intent, and more.Musing: HPE Cloudless Is A Good Marketing Joke
HPE announced a marketing campaign built around the idea of Cloudless. I see this as a superb bit of trolling as the cloudista faithful have been delightfully duped into talking about HPE and highlighting how narrow minded they are. Most of them don’t even realise just how hard they are being rick-rolled here. Its bloody […]
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Helium – Venture Capital Con Job or Viable Business ?
The company 'Helium' appears to be attempting to build a national Low Power WAN (LPWAN) carrier network by asking normal people to buy and operate network nodes for them. The hotspot may be purchased directly or bundled with 3rd party IOT products and become nodes in a proprietary LPWAN that mines tokens in a blockchain.
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The Un Glamour of Business Travel
Originally Published in the Human Infrastructure Magazine Issue 113 in May 2019 I’m in New York, USA. I should be taking photos of myself in front of landmarks, having amazing food and laughing as I walk down the the street. In reality, I’m sitting in front of a mirror that is screwed to the wall […]
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