Greg Ferro, Author at NetworkingNexus.net

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Network Field Day 18 – Some Preparation and Review

A review of the vendors for #NFD18

Musing: The Short Life of Influencers

We have a seen a number of people in the influencer recently taking jobs at vendors. Keith Townsend is the latest and I wish him the very best. I'm not saying if you participate in @TechFieldDay you'll find a new job. But the correlation between the number of TFD delegates starting new jobs in the […]

Arista Introduces Cognitive Cloud Networking for the Campus – Arista

As predicted, Arista starts work on the Campus …..

Looking to Meet, Podcast and Video in San Francisco/Silicon Valley next week

I’m travelling to Silicon Valley next week for Network Field Day 18 and Google Next the following week. I have extended my stay with a couple of free days . Get in touch if you would like to meet. Hoping to podcast, some video and some fun. Looking for people who listen to Packet Pushers who just want […]

Network Dictionary: Transmogrify

One of my favourite words.

Caring for Fibre Optic Cables. Damaged is Worse Than Broken

Why Replacing The Fibre Optic Patch Lead Often Fixes Network Problems

Show 397: The Future Of Networking With Peter Wohlers

Our next installment of the Future Of Networking series brings Peter Wohlers to the podcast.

Way back in the early history of Packet Pushers, we received a presentation from Peter when he worked at Force10 as part of a Tech Field Day event. It was blunt, knowledgeable, cynical and nerd-funny.

Today Peter is VP of Engineering at a large CDN. I invited him to come on talk about the current and future state of the industry.

We discuss the effect of cloud computing on the networking industry and its impact on skills and careers, the early hype around SDN and where it stands today, how much skill you really need in coding, the rise of APIs in networking, and a passionate debate about whether different networks are actually all that unique.

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TFD Bonus 3 Peter Wohlers of Force10 Presents to Tech Field Day San Jose 09/16/2010 – Packet Pushers

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Video: Why Knowing About Industry / Market Makes You Smarter

You can be useful to your salary owner by understanding whats happening in the wider market. I use the example of understanding TLS 1.2/1.3 to explain why L4/L5/App firewalls are losing their value. If your job requires communication with non-technical roles (Mgrs, PMs, Execs) knowing about these trends and how they force vendors to behave […]

Telecom Services 23% of US IT Market

The drive for SD-WAN and mobile phones degrades this position.

Why you should not use Google Cloud – Punch a Server

Google shutoff their ‘data centre’. No one to contact to get it back.

Microsoft Classic Intellimouse Returns

If only it was wireless

ROLL on a roll! – IETF Journal

This feels like progress.

Out of Hours Customer Contact by WhatsApp

How do you manage this ?

Off to the Kubernetes – Networking in a Post VM world

Few people are using containers so why are all the vendors into it ?

Open Daylight Update – Observations

Interesting slides from this update.

Fully Automated Warehouse and Future of Helpdesk Operations

Its all automated

Show 395: The Nature Of Optical Networking

In this episode, the Packet Pushers dive into optical networking. Optical networking tends to be a specialized area of networking. It’s much less about packets and paths and more about physical properties of fiber optic cables, signal propagation, and remote operations.

In recent times, optical companies have been moving into Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and selling direct to enterprises using dark fiber as well as offering DCI services via infrastructure suppliers.

Joining us today to offer their expertise on optical are Scott Wilkinson, Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing at ECI Telecom; and Andrew Schmitt, founder of Cignal AI.

We discuss the basics of silicon photonics and how it impacts optical networking, particularly for DCI. We also examine the open optical movement being driven by the Facebook-backed Telecom Infrastructure Project.