Greg Ferro

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Response: Network Management: Why the CLI?

People get angry when I talk about the death of the CLI for network operations. I’m not the only one: I believe that in today’s network device landscape, the CLI is primarily a tool to promote vendor lock-in by training network engineers to rely on and value it so highly. Yes, devices can be configured […]

Zodiac WX – Northbound Networks

A WiFi Base station using OpenFlow for $250. The Zodiac WX is the world’s first fully integrated OpenFlow® Wireless Access Point. It is a high powered ceiling / wall mountable Dual-Band AC1200 AP that includes 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for PoE. We have integrated our Zodiac OpenFlow® engine directly into the wireless drivers so […]

Response: Cisco ASA Firewall breaks after 213 days of uptime

Continuing with my theme of paying premium prices for faulty products, Michael McNamara shares a recent experience:  I just recently had two HA pairs of Cisco ASA firewalls just stop communicating. A reboot of both the primary and secondary firewall in each HA pair resolved the problem. I had never observed such odd behavior from […]

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Response: The Worm Has Turned Against Tech Companies

For the past decade, the loudest arguments waged regarding the Four (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google) were about which CEO was more Jesus-like or should run for president. These platforms brought down autocrats, were going to cure death and put a man on Mars, because they are just so awesome. Media outlets were coopted into […]

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