Note: If you are a TL/DR type of person, let me give you the short answer to the title of the post: Yes!
For everyone else, I will try my hardest to keep this as short as possible. I will include as many pictures and CLI screens as I think are needed to help answer the scalability question, and no more. While I entertained the idea of making two separate posts regarding scalability, I felt it best to keep it to a single post since AP(Access Point) to AP communication and layer 3 roaming are best explained together. My wife and friends will tell you that I can be long-winded. I apologize in advance.
Let me just start by saying that I work for Aerohive Networks. I have been an employee of Aerohive for about 3 months. In that time, I have learned a tremendous amount about the overall Aerohive solution and architecture. Prior to working for Aerohive, I worked for a reseller that sold for Cisco(to include Meraki), Aruba, and Aerohive. I wasn’t unaware of Aerohive, but let’s be honest for a minute. Aerohive doesn’t have a lot of information out there around how their various protocols work. This Continue reading
DigitalOcean's CTO, Simplivity's latest, and more.
The plan is to automate the WAN.
Staying relevant in a world of containers.
The open source platform could be used by commercial buildings.
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Being a collaborative player is critical.
Cumulus Networks has always strived to provide our customers with choice. And now, Cumulus Linux 3.0 has been refactored to make the user experience fun and easy … and at the same time bring you, even more choice:
Shrijeet Mukherjee (our fearless engineering leader) kicked off the Cumulus Linux 3.0 development cycle with this as our main goal — to offer even more choice to our customers. And then this happened…
So we took on the challenge of unifying the user experience across this sweeping range of hardware platforms and switch silicon without muting the unique prowess and feature richness of any of them.
How did we do this? By deploying the three dragons in our arsenal: ONIE, switchd and the Linux kernel itself (which is now better fed by Continue reading
This week on Packet Pushers we talk with two VMware NSX customers who’ve implemented NSX in production. We'll look at SDN use cases including microsegmentation and network virtualization.
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The shortest end-to-end network path doesn't always result in improved application performance.
Jacob Hess is an entrepreneur and systems engineer who has over 15 years experience in Information Technology. Working in both the customer and systems integrator environments he has designed and deployed many complex IT projects spanning the full stack of networking technologies. Jacob is also a United States Air Force veteran who served as a technical instructor and trained hundreds of network engineers to be job ready for the Department of Defense. He is the Co-founder & COO of Nexgent and is passionate about inspiring, creating, and empowering the next generation of IT engineers.
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In enterprise IT, disruptive technologies become commercially viable faster than you can say “Moore’s Law.” However, if corporate culture and processes don’t evolve in conjunction with the pace of technology, it can inhibit the benefits of even the most awesome of enterprise apps. One area of IT where corporate culture has stymied progress is cyber security, but the rise of software containers — arguably one of the most disruptive enterprise technologies on the horizon - provides an opportunity to get application security right, or at least make it a whole lot better.
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