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Does Your Ethernet Switch Break Application Performance?
Test results show that a Tomahawk-based switch unfairly allocates bandwidth, while a Mellanox Spectrum-based switch allocates bandwidth fairly regardless of which ports are used.
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Does Your Ethernet Switch Break Application Performance?
Test results show that a Tomahawk-based switch unfairly allocates bandwidth, while a Mellanox Spectrum-based switch allocates bandwidth fairly regardless of which ports are used.
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Evolving my NAS with SmartOS
What follows is an article about how I recently rebuilt a single-purpose home NAS into a multi-purpose data services machine, all while keeping the data storage structures untouched and completely intact. Plan for about 10 minutes to read this article. Data storage is boring A couple years ago I built a NAS for personal use. […]
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Evolving my NAS with SmartOS
What follows is an article about how I recently rebuilt a single-purpose home NAS into a multi-purpose data services machine, all while keeping the data storage structures untouched and completely intact. Plan for about 10 minutes to read this article. Data storage is boring A couple years ago I built a NAS for personal use. […]
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Verizon Deploys NFV Infrastructure Platform From Interchangeable Parts
Verizon has deployed an OpenStack infrastructure, using software from Red Hat and Big Switch Networks and hardware from Dell, on which it will offer NFV services.
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Verizon Deploys NFV Infrastructure Platform From Interchangeable Parts
Verizon has deployed an OpenStack infrastructure, using software from Red Hat and Big Switch Networks and hardware from Dell, on which it will offer NFV services.
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Riverbed Announces Its SteelConnect SD-WAN Product
Riverbed today announced SteelConnect, its long-forecasted SD-WAN product line.
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Riverbed Announces Its SteelConnect SD-WAN Product
Riverbed today announced SteelConnect, its long-forecasted SD-WAN product line.
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The Packet Pushers Are On Google Play Music
Packet Pushers podcasts are now available on Google Play Music. You'll need to sign in with a Google account to listen.
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The Packet Pushers Are On Google Play Music
Packet Pushers podcasts are now available on Google Play Music. You'll need to sign in with a Google account to listen.
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Got SD-WAN Questions? Get Answers At The Big SD-WAN Mixer
Join the Packet Pushers for The Big SD-WAN Mixer and enjoy lively conversations about SD-WAN deployment and operations with network pros who make it work for their users.
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Got SD-WAN Questions? Get Answers At The Big SD-WAN Mixer
Join the Packet Pushers for The Big SD-WAN Mixer and enjoy lively conversations about SD-WAN deployment and operations with network pros who make it work for their users.
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Jenkins as system job scheduler
Jenkins is an open software tool, typically used for continuous integration in software development. Network or system changes can be treated in a similar way as code changes are: developed, tested and deployed. Test frameworks are coming to Network world (look at TODD) but are not popular yet. Even without unit tests we can still use developer tools like Jenkins […]
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Jenkins as system job scheduler
Jenkins is an open software tool, typically used for continuous integration in software development. Network or system changes can be treated in a similar way as code changes are: developed, tested and deployed. Test frameworks are coming to Network world (look at TODD) but are not popular yet. Even without unit tests we can still use developer tools like Jenkins […]
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Leveraging IXP Colocation as an Enterprise
Providing a comprehensive solution for global connectivity is still not a trivial task. As most global enterprises know, the scale both geographically and organizationally can kill almost any well engineered network design. Size and complexity aside, just designing for the next “XaaS” solution and cloud sprawl can greatly challenge most network engineers One approach to […]
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Leveraging IXP Colocation as an Enterprise
Providing a comprehensive solution for global connectivity is still not a trivial task. As most global enterprises know, the scale both geographically and organizationally can kill almost any well engineered network design. Size and complexity aside, just designing for the next “XaaS” solution and cloud sprawl can greatly challenge most network engineers One approach to […]
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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1
In this pair of articles I will be dissecting the fundamentals of cooling and refrigeration from an IT engineering perspective, then going over the process of sizing a cooling system. As infrastructure engineers, we likely deal with the topic of cooling on occasion, and those occasions tend to be during a facility buildout/upgrade or outage […]
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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1
In this pair of articles I will be dissecting the fundamentals of cooling and refrigeration from an IT engineering perspective, then going over the process of sizing a cooling system. As infrastructure engineers, we likely deal with the topic of cooling on occasion, and those occasions tend to be during a facility buildout/upgrade or outage […]
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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 1 – Vision
Network engineers and operators may often feel themselves at odds with network architects, who live in ivory towers and make pronouncements from on high about how a network should be set up, but aren’t actually responsible for making it work. Now for those that have listened to the Datanauts show on VCDX certification (at around […]
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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 1 – Vision
Network engineers and operators may often feel themselves at odds with network architects, who live in ivory towers and make pronouncements from on high about how a network should be set up, but aren’t actually responsible for making it work. Now for those that have listened to the Datanauts show on VCDX certification (at around […]
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