Unregenerate 20160827 – The Week Gone By or To Come
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week. unregenerate – adj. not reformed, unreconstructed, obstinate, stubborn —- Current Status Arrived in Las Vegas VMworld early for Vmworld as press/media. I’m presenting on the big stage at Future:Net – an [invitation only conference on the future of networking – on Thursday Morning “Breakfast With […]
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Intel IDF: Convergence Is Everything
Reflections on lessons learned from Intel Developer Forum
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Why Google Slows Fibre Rollout
Laying fiber is, it turns out, pretty expensive. That’s one reason why expansion of Google Fiber’s ambitious project to bring ultrafast internet to U.S. cities around has been placed on hold. The company has spent spent hundreds of millions of dollars laying fiber-optic cablesto bring Internet service as much as 100 times faster than average high-speed wireless […]
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Response: Arista Market Share
I was looking quickly through slides presented at Arista's financial results for Q2 -2016 and this slide jumped out at me.
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Unregenerate 20160814 – The Week Gone By or To Come
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week.
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Unregenerate – 20160730
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week. Stream of thinking. unregenerate – adj. not reformed, unreconstructed, obstinate, stubborn BGPv4 is Not a Standard BGPv4 RFC4271 is only a draft standard. It is not an Internet standard. It’s still not finished, has several errata and over 50 extensions are currently underway in the […]
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Unregenerate – 20160727
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week. Ir Whatever. unregenerate – adj. not reformed, unreconstructed, obstinate, stubborn A Better Sound System I’ve been “pining” for a better audio solution for my office and around the house for quite some time. I’ve been eyeing off Sonos product for quite some time but […]
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Unregenerate – The Week Gone By or To Come – 20160725
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week.
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Response: Cryptech – A Open Source HSM
Because commercial HSMs are hard to trust an open source version is a good choice.
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Musing:Integrity in Network Telemetry
What if network devices reported falsified information ?
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Should I Learn Cisco UCS or OpenStack ?
I'm looking at Cisco UCS or OpenStack but can't choose which to pursue.
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Basics: What is Ternary Content Address Memory (TCAM) ?
Note: You should read about Content Addressable Memory (CAM) before reading this post. Today’s networking hardware operates a Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 of the OSI model. The device might switch Ethernet frames, route IP packets and implement filters based on the TCP segments. A MAC Address is always an exact match and […]
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Basics: What is Binary CAM (BCAM) ?
Binary CAM performs a binary lookup ands returns either a 1 or 0.
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Basics: What is Content Addressable Memory (CAM) ?
Content-addressable memory (CAM) is silicon chip architecture that is purpose-built for extremely fast but very specific type of memory lookups.
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Internets of Interest – 2 Jul 2016
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Response: Cumulus ndependence from L2 Data Centers
L3 routing to to the host. An idea whose time has come, again.
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Custom Silicon Isn’t That Hard After All
Barefoot Networks proves you can make ASICs without a big company.
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Upgrade Your Data Centre To A Closet
I'm back to installing servers/network in closets. Do we need data centers anymore ?
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Basics: What is the difference between routing, switching, bridging and forwarding
The terms routing, switching, forwarding and bridging have different meanings that have changed over time.
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Basics: Is there always a feasible successor in EIGRP ?
Question : Is there always a feasible successor in EIGRP ? Background: An operational route is passive. If the path is lost, the router examines the topology table to find an FS. If there is an FS, it is placed in the routing table; otherwise, the router queries its neighbors, sending the route into active mode. Answer: There has to […]
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