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Prior to my current job, I enjoyed the time I invested in the community. I spent quite a bit of time on The Cisco Learning Network helping those that were early in career. I also blogged here regularly (typically weekly) and spent time in the Twitterverse and on Slack. From this perspective, taking a job with a vendor was more different than I expected. It was like someone flipped a switch and I was completely spent at the end of each and every day.

On a few occasions, I have tried to get back what I would have previously considered some level of normalcy with regards to the community. I have decided that this year is my year to make some major changes. I must do a better job prioritizing things I care about and realize that some [read many] things just aren’t going to get done. That is one thing I’ve learned over the past few years. Even though I have always felt that my workload was significant, there is nothing like having a job in which you can only get a small portion of the overall work completed. It just doesn’t feel good.

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Fortinet Caps Big Q4 With Equinix SD-WAN Deal, Small Hardware

T-Mobile US Surges as Sprint Deal Stews

Daily Roundup: Nokia Earnings Flatline

How to Manage a Home Network with Infrastructure as Code

Unifi Dream Machine home management device because, in addition to my personal and guest SSIDs, there is an apartment in my house for which I wanted to segment traffic. I also wanted to add an extra layer of security around some of the home automation and IoT devices that were being added to our home network with a fourth SSID. I started to configure the new network, I had started a spreadsheet of VLANs, subnet CIDRs and mappings of those to SSIDs. Additionally, I needed to track firewall rules, port forwards and other settings and configurations. Needless to say, this was a lot of information to maintain and manage. My day job is working on the Infrastructure-as Code (IaC) product

Next-generation endpoint security goes beyond the endpoint

AI and behavioral analysis are key to elevating the level of security for devices and back-end systems and are a prerequisite for IoT devices and services. Is your vendor moving in the right direction?

Next-generation endpoint security goes beyond the endpoint

AI and behavioral analysis are key to elevating the level of security for devices and back-end systems and are a prerequisite for IoT devices and services. Is your vendor moving in the right direction?

How Dell’s 5G Laptop Portfolio Delivers Seamless Connectivity from Anywhere

Huawei Cops to Video Surveillance Chip Backdoor

IPv6 Buzz 044: Building An IPv6 Lab

The best way to learn IPv6 is to get it into the lab and play with it. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we share advice, learnings, and tips on building a lab and getting your hands dirty with this protocol.

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IPv6 Buzz 044: Building An IPv6 Lab

How to Start Your Network Automation Journey

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step they say… but what should that first step be if you want to start a network automation journey (and have no idea how to do it)?

Anne Baretta sent me a detailed description of his journey, which (as is often the case) started with the standardized configuration templates.

Intel drops work on one of its AI-chip lines in favor of an other

Well, that was short.Intel is ending work on its Nervana neural network processors (NNP) in favor of an artificial intelligence line it gained in the recent $2 billion acquisition of Habana Labs.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Intel acquired Nervana in 2016 and issued its first NNP chip one year later. After the $408 million acquisition by Intel, Nervana co-founder Naveen Rao was placed in charge of the AI platforms group, which is part of Intel's data platforms group. The Nervana chips were meant to compete with Nvidia GPUs in the AI inference training space, and Facebook worked with Intel “in close collaboration, sharing its technical insights,” according to former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.To read this article in full, please click here

Game changers at the branch: Wi-Fi 6, 4G, 5G plus SD-WAN

Combining 4G and 5G cellular services with SD-WAN can give enterprise IT pros connectivity options that are faster than wired alternatives such as MPLS and that provide benefits including rapid provisioning, improved reliability and more bandwidth for less money.Branch offices, which are undergoing dramatic changes in the amount of traffic they generate and where that traffic goes, can particularly benefit from 4G and 5G, and one enabler is software-defined WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

Game changers at the branch: Wi-Fi 6, 4G, 5G plus SD-WAN

Combining 4G and 5G cellular services with SD-WAN can give enterprise IT pros connectivity options that are faster than wired alternatives such as MPLS and that provide benefits including rapid provisioning, improved reliability and more bandwidth for less money.Branch offices, which are undergoing dramatic changes in the amount of traffic they generate and where that traffic goes, can particularly benefit from 4G and 5G, and one enabler is software-defined WAN.To read this article in full, please click here

CloudGenix Joins Cissdm’s SD-WAN Crew

Daily Roundup: Cisco Patches Big Zero-Day Bug

NetBeez helps narrow down root causes of issues in virtual environments

Ryan Riffle is the network manager for an insurance firm with just under 2,000 employees. The company operates a primary data center, plus another for disaster recovery, to serve two major offices in the south-central US and smaller branches around the country. Three years ago, the company installed a software-defined network based on VMware NSX technology, and now more than 99% of the network operates in a virtual environment.The flexibility of the software-defined network provides a lot of benefits. Riffle says the company was able to improve its security posture with micro-segmentation for business applications at the virtual layer. (The company does not allow use of its name for the appearance of endorsing any product or vendor.) What’s more, there is no longer a need to have physical third-party appliances that had to be managed differently from the virtual server environment. They were able to remove physical devices, including a hardware firewall, routers and load balancers.To read this article in full, please click here

5G holds promise for enterprises, but what’s real?

5G technology can offer high bandwidth, low-latency wireless connections, but how available is it, and what types of service does it support?The acknowledged global leader in 5G tech is Huawei is caught in a political attack from the U.S. that calls for banning the use of its gear in U.S. service-provider networks. How will that affect rollouts?What are the characteristics of the frequency bands 5G can emplo,y and how can that affect the business applications it’s best suited for.In this video “Making the move to 5G” technology consultant Jack Gold addresses these questions and more.To read this article in full, please click here

How SD-Branch Supports Bank Transformation