Snowflake networks, sounds like a good name for a network design company, but this is not what this post is about. Are you familiar with the concept of a snowflake network? This terminology comes from the notion that each snowflake is unique at a molecular level. In networking, many networks don’t look the same, so the term snowflake networks was coined.
Lately there’s been a lot of discussions on networks being snowflakes. Especially on some of the podcasts (you know which ones). What is being discussed is that we need to move away from designing networks that are complex, networks that are snowflakes. Every network is 95% the same and only the last 5% is unique. First, let me agree that snowflakes are bad. Personally I believe we should adhere to the following design tenets if possible:
Don’t use more complexity than needed
Use as much L3 as possible
No stretching of L2
Don’t use more protocols than needed
Don’t change default setting unless needed
Don’t “gold plate” the design
Don’t use “nerd knobs”
I think most of us, if not all, can agree that these tenets make sense when designing a network. So why do networks end up being Continue reading
The original ethernet specification was owned by DEC, Intel and Xerox hence the standard being named "Ethernet (DIX)". The ethernet specification has been through a number of updates over the years beginning with the IEEE standard in the early 1980's and going through many revisions....continue reading
Following the tumultuous purchase of Brocade (that reportedly led to the layoffs of 1,100 employees) and the blocked purchase of Qualcomm — Broadcom seeks to diversify its portfolio with the purchase of the monitoring software company.
In this episode of the Network Collective Community Roundtable, Tom Hollingsworth and Nick Buraglio join us again to expound on the topic of privacy in networking.
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We also would also like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is bringing S.O.U.L. back to the network. Simple. Open. Untethered. Linux. For more information about how you can bring S.O.U.L. to your network, head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/networkcollectivehassoul. There you can find out how Cumulus Networks can help you build a datacenter as efficient and as flexible as the worlds largest data centers and try Cumulus technology absolutely free.
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The program is intended to bring together open source products that can quickly be deployed by service providers.
The joint offering enables providers to mix and match SD-WAN components and services, without being tied to a specific hardware.
Dell Technologies’ venture arm invests about $100 million annually in technology startups, and about a quarter of that goes to security companies.
VMware NSX enterprise-grade solutions support your path toward network virtualization, micro-segmentation, application availability, IT automation, and cross-cloud architecture. And while we mostly live in the cloud, we’re coming back to Earth and taking our proverbial show on the road with the VMware NSX® Roadshow. It all goes down this summer, in a city near you!
VMware NSX® Roadshow workshops are designed specifically for networking and security professionals and delivered in a casual, interactive setting. Each participant gets the chance to engage one-on-one with VMware NSX product experts to ask questions, get hands-on help, and network with other people interested in, well, networks!
When you sign up, you’ll learn how agile organizations are using a Virtual Cloud Network as a north star to guide them toward creating a network built on best practice pillars like consistent connectivity, branch optimization, and security across all infrastructure.
Join us to talk shop, meet and greet, get deep drives on hot topics, product demos, and guided one-on-ones with product experts in one of the following cities:
Detroit – 7/17
When: July 17, 2018, from 1:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Where: Westin Southfield Detroit
1500 Town Center
Southfield, Continue reading
“We didn’t know the term SD-WAN,” said SimpleWAN’s CEO. But he needed some way to remotely manage the IT network of branch offices.