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Cisco Viptela drops the ball

In 2012, we saw the launch of Viptela, a pioneer in SDWAN network solutions. While they weren’t the first in SDWAN, I believe that badge goes to Talari; Viptela was the …

Introducing Graphiant: The Future of Network-as-a-Service

As businesses continue to shift towards remote and distributed work environments, the need for secure and reliable network infrastructure has never been greater. Enter Graphiant, a …

Mandatory Cisco DNA Licensing – is this the Future??

With the release of the new 9200 series switches many enterprise organizations are starting to look towards the future. Cisco has also been looking towards the future… of their …

IP Infusion powering the world from behind the scenes

Founded by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa the founders of GNU Zebra, came together to form IP Infusion back in 1999 as a commercial-grade, hardware-independent …

VMware NSX is something something awesome

At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day. Because of that, I really wanted to try something different. …

PNDA provides scalable and reactive network analytics

During Networking Field Day 15 our friends from the Linux Foundation, including Lisa Caywood, briefed us on a recent “acquisition” from Cisco. PNDA (Panda) is an open source …

Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges

Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event. Networking Field Day 15 kicks off April 6 and 7th in …

Ixia Vision ONE – Tap the Planet

Whenever I start talking about network visibility and aggreagation taps I can’t help but think of The Matrix. Millions of packets flowing through your network every minute of every …

Forward Networks – A forward approach to formal verification

Forward Networks has stepped out of the shadows to announce their Network Assurance platform, and I was fortunate enough to be a delegate for Networking Field Day 13 to see their …

Intel Atom SoC bricking more than Cisco products

Looks like the culprit in the recent Cisco debacle is the Intel Atom “System on Chip” (SoC) that Cisco used in it’s gear. My sources within Cisco won’t give up the goods, but many …

Cisco goes public with Clock Signal Component Issue

A couple months ago many engineers started hearing rumors regarding an ISR 4331 recall, and problems surrounding the device. Until this week, none of us had very good information, …

Networking Field Day 13 – Sneak Preview

This is going to be a busy week for the Tech Field Day family. They have delegates en-route to Tech Field Day 12 this morning, and Wednesday the crew for Network Field day 13 …

FCC approves net neutrality rules, reclassifies broadband as a utility

Today is a good day. By a 3-2 vote, the FCC has voted to adopt net neutrality rules to protect the open Internet. This plan will reclassify internet access as a Title II public …

Cisco Live 2015 – Mike Rowe Announced as Keynote Speaker

Cisco just announced to the Cisco Champion community that the guest speaker for the keynote is going to be none other than …… Mike Rowe!! In case you don’t know, Mike Rowe is an …

Cisco Live 2015 – Customer Appreciation Event Featuring Aerosmith!!

Yes, you heard me right. Aerosmith! One of the most looked forward to social events for Cisco Live has always been the Customer Appreciation Events (CAE). Cisco rarely let’s us …

Cisco ISR 4000 – Now with more licensing!

This week at Interop NYC, Cisco launched it’s ISR 4000 Series. This is a new approach for them focused on delivering services to your branch offices. Cisco has dubbed this new …

HP talks SDN at Interop NYC 2014

I generally try to avoid oversharing when it comes to my thoughts about presentations, but I have to mention that after sitting down with Glue Networks and their “SDN” …

CCIE Potential

INE published a great info-graphic on the earning potential of Cisco’s certifications and I felt the need to share it here. It covers a range of topics from average salaries on all …

Brocade and VCS… quite impressive

Our second visit on day 2 of Network Field day was Brocade, who incidentally supplied us with a great lunch! We spent a little time going through the expected marketing …

Juniper QFabric, Junosphere, Automation, and More

The second day of Network Field Day 2 started early at the Juniper EBC, luckily Abner Germanow was prepared with breakfast for the weary and slightly hung over delegates. He gave …

Gigamon and the Great Pumpkin

I could’ve just as easily called this article Gigamon… fixing problems you didn’t know about or Why Gigamon scares the crap out of me — but I wont, because they already did! But …

NEC and ProgrammableFlow Switching

NEC is currently the only Vendor that is shipping an OpenFlow enabled product today. So naturally, their presentation led off with a message about what they’re bringing to the …

Network Field Day 2 — Comic Edition

During the coarse of NFD2 I found an iPhone app called Halftone, and later, one named ComicStrip that allow you to add some fun effects and speech bubbles to your photos… So, I …

Cisco Systems Awesomesauce aka Full Tilt Boogie

First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone from Cisco Systems for inviting us into the CCIC (Cisco Cloud Innovation Center), this was an amazing room to hold our …

The OpenFlow Symposium

Well, here is the update that I promised you. I’ve spent the last few days with some of the top minds in Networking industry. One of the most exciting technologies being presented …

Tech Field Day: OpenFlow Symposium

What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a proposed standard for exchanging flow data between controllers and networking devices. OpenFlow has the potential to move our networking control …

Networking Field Day 2

Have you heard the news? You’re least favorite blogger is making the trip to San Jose California for Tech Field Day: Network Field Day 2 — I really want to add a dramatic movie …

Cisco Live 2011

It’s been a tough week since I left Las Vegas. I must say that my Cisco Live withdrawal has been pretty bad, and with the week we’ve been having here in Indiana, I’m certainly …

My Cisco Live 2011 Schedule

I finished up most of my registration for Cisco Live 2011 / #cl11 yesterday and figured I would put up a copy of my schedule. My only wish would be that there was more times …

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