Upscale AI at NFD40: The Pitch Before the Product
About thirty seconds into Aravind Srikumar’s NFD40 talk, he said the thing that made me stop fidgeting and start paying attention: “We haven’t announced any products yet.
Networking
Selector at NFD40: Show Your Work
Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model.
Heading to CHI-NOG 13
Somehow I’ve never made it to CHI-NOG, the Chicago Network Operators Group’s annual gathering. That changes this year.
Networks Are Graphs. NetAI Acts Like It.
Dr. Deepak Kakadia got about ninety seconds into his NFD40 talk before he said the thing nobody else on the AI Ops circuit is willing to say out loud. LLMs were invented to model human behavior.
AI Networks Can't Use SDN. Netris Built What's Next.
Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking.
AI NOC, Not AI-on-NOC: Aviz Flips the Stack
Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud.
Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS
Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it.
One Throat to Choke, or Any Silicon You Want: Cisco at NFD40
Cisco showed up to NFD40 selling two different pitches in the same session, and nobody on stage reconciled them.
Lightyear at NFD40: Can Software Fix the Telecom Lifecycle?
Anyone who has managed carrier circuits for a living knows the pain. Quoting takes forever. Installs drag on with zero visibility.
Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era
I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years. I understand leaf-spine fabrics, BGP design, VRF isolation, ECMP, and congestion management.
Networking Field Day 40 – Back at it again
I’m Heading to Networking Field Day 40 I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a delegate for Networking Field Day 40, taking place April 8–10, 2026 in Silicon Valley.
Stop using 192.168.1.0/24: A Contrarian Guide to Home Network Addressing
If you’re a contractor, consultant, or anyone who VPNs into multiple client networks, you’ve experienced the pain. You connect to a Client’s VPN, and suddenly you can’t print to your local printer.
PCAP or it didn’t happen…. The t-shirt!
Some days I don’t know why I do things… But last night I was playing around with creating a PCAP meme when my friend Josh Kittle said he’d be interested in a t-shirt like that.
Netcat – secret weapon
Netcat or nc, is a forgotten tool in too many arsenals these days. It lays dormant waiting at the command line to make connections across the globe for you.
The History of PING
Anyone that has touched a computer these days has probably heard of ping. But very few know of its true origins these days. The following is based off the original developer, Mike Muuss’s website.