SCALE13x – My talk: Switch as a Server
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at SCALE13x in Los Angeles, on the Switch as a Server — treating your network switches in the same way you treat your servers. It’s a topic I feel very strongly about!
As strong as my feelings are about open networking, I also love non-automotive forms of transportation! So I decided to bike to the airport. SFO has a lot of bicycle facilities so it was no problem to find parking.
Got to LA on the plane and then Rocket Turtle enjoyed the view by the airport!
… and met some of our great customers!
Scale is a unique conference in that they encourage canine attendance — doggies!
Friday night I helped out with a birds of a feather (BOF) event, giving advice to job hunters. Did I mention we’re hiring?
On Saturday evening I won the Weakest Geek — a Weakest Link-style geek-themed trivia contest, run this Continue reading
SDN, NFV and Skill Development for Network Engineers
I came to Cisco Brussels 14 years ago to take my first CCIE lab. I didn’t pass that time. I went to Tokyo a month later and got my number there. Several years later I kept coming back to Brussels to pass my two other CCIEs.
Many people say there is no value anymore in taking CCIE these days. With SDN and NFV, everything will be done "auto-magically". We don’t even need network engineers anymore! Yeah, right. Last week I went back in Brussels to work on Network Control System, multi-vendor network device management tool from Tail-F that was acquired by Cisco June last year. NCS is the corner store of Cisco Network Service Orchestration framework for Cisco SDN and NFV solution offering. And I’m here to tell you that the world still need lots of network engineers, and CCIEs, or those who have CCIE-level skill set.
But first, let me talk more about NCS, a service orchestration for real-time service provisioning across multivendor networks.
Network devices were, and are still, configured using CLI. Then SNMP was created to help. Soon, we realized SNMP is great to monitor the network but it fails to become configuration management, as stated Continue reading
Unser neuer 31er Datacenter: Düsseldorf
Hallo Düsseldorf. Nestled in the center of the Lower Rhine basin lies the bustling city of Düsseldorf, capital of Germany’s most populous state, Northern Rhine-Westphalia. Provided its status as an international business and telecommunications hub, and serving a population larger than the Netherlands, our data center in Düsseldorf is an important addition to our European network. This means not only better performance in Germany and Northern Europe, but additional redundancy for our 10 other data centers throughout Europe, including our first German data center in Frankfurt.
For the local audience: Liebe Freunde in Düsseldorf, euer Internetanschluss ist schneller geworden und ihr könnt jetzt sicher surfen. Viel Spaß.
Not just any data center
Dusseldorf comes to life.
Our Düsseldorf data center holds a special place in the heart of our legal counsel Ken Carter. When he’s not helping to build a better Internet, he is likely to be found regaling the office with tales of his adventures in the quaint medieval town of Bad Honnef am Rhein, just south of our new data center. Ban Honnef, most famously known as the world-wide headquarters for Birkenstock, can now add one more tale of note. Equidistant between Frankfurt and Dusseldorf, it is Continue reading
What’s in my toolbag – Update 2 – SergeantClips
Building on the “What’s in my toolbag” series that I revisited last week with the Fluke LinkSprinter, I wanted to talk about the next new item in my tool bag. This week we will take a look at a product called SergeantClip. The SergeantClip is used to help with cable management and switch replacements. I […]
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Response: Open Web Alliance Lobbies to Intercept Your Traffic
The Open Web Alliance is a lobby group that is opposed to secure and safe HTTPS traffic over the Internet and forms lobby group for the HTTP2 process to ensure that your Internet traffic can be intercepted and logged by service providers. This major purpose of this so-called technology innovation is that your personal information to can […]
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BGP Design Test
I will share a network design test bi-weekly for you. These tests will help you for the CCDE Written Exam. You will answer the questions and see the results immediately. If you liked the idea,let me know in the comment box below. Don’t forget to check my CCDE Training which will start at first week of April.… Read More »
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Cisco ACI – a Stretched Fabric That Actually Works
In mid-February a blog post on Cisco’s web site announced stretched ACI fabric (bonus points for not using marketing grammar but talking about a shipping product). Will it work better than other PowerPoint-based fabrics? You bet!
What’s the Big Deal?
Cisco’s ACI fabric uses distributed (per-switch) control plane with APIC controllers providing fabric configuration and management functionality. In that respect, the ACI fabric is no different from any other routed network, and we know that those work well in distributed environments.
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