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Ethernet Roadmap 2016 – Ethernet Alliance

The IEEE 802.3 committee isn’t very good at getting standards work completed so there is a pre-standards body called the Ethernet Alliance. Its like a “pre-meeting meeting” (yes, we have all had those) for Ethernet standards where vendors thrash out most of the obvious stuff so that the committee has less work to consider and, theoretically, should […]

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Ethernet Roadmap 2016 – Ethernet Alliance

The IEEE 802.3 committee isn’t very good at getting standards work completed so there is a pre-standards body called the Ethernet Alliance. Its like a “pre-meeting meeting” (yes, we have all had those) for Ethernet standards where vendors thrash out most of the obvious stuff so that the committee has less work to consider and, theoretically, should […]

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Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape

Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]

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Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape

Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]

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What People Get Wrong About Microsoft SONiC

Howdy. In my previous post, I mentioned doing a deep dive of SONiC, the recent software release from Microsoft. So without further delay, Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, or SONiC. What It Ain’t I’m sure y’all might have read this FAQ, but just in case, I’ll hit the main points: SONiC is not […]

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What People Get Wrong About Microsoft SONiC

Howdy. In my previous post, I mentioned doing a deep dive of SONiC, the recent software release from Microsoft. So without further delay, Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, or SONiC. What It Ain’t I’m sure y’all might have read this FAQ, but just in case, I’ll hit the main points: SONiC is not […]

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