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Microsoft Teams to become standalone

Was drawn to this article after Steve Puluka mentioned it on his LinkedIn feed so thought I would put down some thoughts on it. Microsoft has announced that it will be removing Teams from its popular Office software suite. Instead, … Continue reading →

Junos and packet tracing

Junos devices have the ability to examine packets destined for the routing engine in a number of ways. Here are a few! Continue reading →

#NXTWORK2016 Highlights

#NXTWORK16 Technology so fast they didnt have time to add the E! Continue reading →

My 3 year Workiversary!

So LinkedIn told me it was my 3 year workiversary the other day. 3 whole years since starting with Fluency Communications and building out their National Next Gen Network. When I first joined the company, the network was ran on … Continue reading →

Why oh why?

So i have been using Juniper MX routers for some years now (mainly MX80’s) and have configured CoS in reasonably basic forms to suit $dayjob’s needs (mainly 4 queues). It turns out that even though the MX routers support 8 … Continue reading →

5 Network related things I am looking forward to in 2015

This blog is cross posted from my original blog found here Below is a list of the 5 network things I am looking forward to in 2015 (in no particular order). Analytics – Now this term has been around for … Continue reading →

MTR style traceroute on Juniper

Having used MTR on my mac and on Linux system I was always frustrated with the lack of this option from the Junos CLI. You have always been able to start a shell and run MTR as below:- nick@ScoobyDoo> start … Continue reading →

Attention Network Engineers – Size really does matter!

No. I wasn’t meaning that! I have spent the last few days trying to get an ME-3600 to play nicely with an SRX for VPLS. AFI L2VPN for BGP was set up and the sessions were established and everything looked … Continue reading →

Book Review: Juniper MX Series

Now, I have to admit that I love most Juniper products with the exception of the J-series and have spent a fair amount of time on the Juniper certification trail. You may think that this leads me to be slightly … Continue reading →

IOS XR and the egrep function

As you may have already realised I am always looking for ways to speed up my day to day tasks. Every few days I check my BGP peering to see if there are any sessions down and then give the … Continue reading →

Checking RX and TX light levels on the Cisco ASR platform

It’s been quite a while since my last post and I thought I would post this little snippet of information that I found while deploying the ASR platform into my employers network. The optics I am using are standard Cisco … Continue reading →

Using VASI to exchange IGP routes between VRF’s

I attended the packet pushers party on Friday 17th and managed to have some of my questions answered during what was a great show. My current project is to provide L3 services into one of our sites where the incumbent … Continue reading →

The path to certification

Over the last few years I have made the transition at the company I work for, from Support Engineer to Network Engineer. In between this I became a Managed Services Engineer dealing with the configuration, installation and maintenance of Cisco … Continue reading →

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