The METNAV shop at McGuire AFB was hard to miss, if you could get into the right area, and you know what you were looking for. Out across the flightline, across the old 18 runway, and across a winding series of roads, a small squat building sat — no antennas or other identifying marks. Just plain, white, one story, with a small parking lot and a few trucks, either camouflaged or USAF blue. Driving into the parking lot, you’d find an odd collection of vehicles, but many of us drove 4wd’s of some sort. A good number of the pieces of equipment we worked on were only reachable through off road routes. If you owned a 4wd vehicle, the fateful pager call at 2am didn’t require a trip to the shop, across the flight line, old runways, and in the winter piles of snow pushed up against the sides of the airplane routes, to get a truck usable to reach the failed piece of equipment.
In the line of cars, you would see one that was, well, different. This particular car was, in fact, the subject of a number of discussions in the shop — you’d almost think our little Continue reading
DPI and policy functions give NFV a head start, by Infonetics' reckoning.
Knowing Stuff. I have to admit, this second post is not as technical as I would prefer, but something that is on my mind a lot. How do we know what we know. How do we constantly work on what is as essential to us as air. Is it the same for everyone, or is […]
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So finally got some time after a while to write something. In this post we will be looking at Topology Independent LFA aka TI-LFA. We will also compare TI-LFA with LFA, rLFA and TE-FRR. If you don’t already have familiarity with LFA’s or TE-FRR then take a look at my previous posts on TE design […]
The post Yet Another blog about Segment Routing -Part2 : TI-LFA appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Diptanshu Singh.