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Response: Facebook – The growing ecosystem around open networking hardware
There is more genuine innovation and change coming from Facebook than any networking vendor. Whether its hardware designs, firmware (BMC , FBOSS applications and new protocols. I’m remain confident...
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Research: BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control – ACM Queue
The BBR algorithm appears to be building critical mass of support in the Internet community which makes reading this research paper even more worthwhile. When bottleneck buffers are small, loss- based...
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Research: Router Optics Evolution and Market Trends
Timely information on the future of optics and SFP modules. The current situation of price overloading by vendors is seriously grim (markups of 1000% are common) and this could help to increase your...
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Response: AT&T, Microsoft Ventures back networking startup SnapRoute in $25...
How does a BGP/OSPF routing app on a network device cost more than Microsoft Office ? One is really complex with thousands of features, complex interface and must support a huge range of hardware. The...
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Response: Network Icons –‘net work
These are great icons for network diagrams from Russ White. Much more useful for all diagrams purposes than most other icons. I’ve developed this set of vendor neutral network icons for drawing...
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Sponsor: FutureWAN – a virtual conference on SD-WAN
A couple of months Packet Pushers hosted an open format, non-boring, live discussion about the reality of operating a SD-WAN with people who have lived through it. This was part of the Future WAN...
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Cisco Shrinks in Switching, Routing and DC
Cisco shrinking overall ~2% per quarter. 10% down in routing, 5% down in switching, 4% down in DC. Increases dividend, investors happy. Cisco reported $11.6 billion in revenue for Q2 2017 on February...
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Frequently Asked Questions: Submarine Cables 101
Useful background information on oceanic cabling from Telegeogrphy. I’ve been involved with TeleGeography’s research on submarine cables since 2000. Over the years I’ve fielded numermous questions...
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Research: The Business Bene ts of Automation and Orchestration – Cisco
Whitepaper from Cisco SPBU that nicely sums the advantages of orchestration and automation. Although its focussed on the service provider market, you could easily use this for an Enterprise proposal...
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Response: IETF RFC 8033 Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE)
Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE) is another active queue management algorithm for dropping packets. Similar to RED, PIE randomly drops an incoming packet at the onset of congestion....
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Response: Cisco’s Identity Crisis: Complexity, Pride, and SD-WAN
An excellent post from Eyvonne Sharp highlights one of Cisco’s weakest areas, its enduring passion for too many products, too many options, too much complexity: With that in mind consider Cisco, a...
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My ITIL Experience In An Org Chart
Some time back, someone challenged me to explain how ITIL impacted my workflow. The diagram is largely inspired by my time working for a Top 5 IT Consultancy which was utterly convinced that more...
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Video: Disk Drop
I do sometimes miss the old days of having a ‘private office’ (aka computer room) to play with stuff. Link: Disk Drop – YouTube – The post Video: Disk Drop appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Cisco equipment Comprehsively Pwned by US Government
Tough day for Cisco. A large number of Cisco software releases and devices were comprehensively pwned by US Gov spy agencies. This isn’t surprising, thats what they are supposed to do but now the...
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Video: “…You can either be a farmer, or join a politically motivated global...
Funny and insightful. Maybe. Jake Davis, former Anonymous and LulzSec hacker, shares his hacker journey while exploring just what makes hackers tick… “…You can either be a farmer, or join a politically...
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Human Infrastructure And Always Planning to Quit and Move On
I did a video for “Speak With A Geek” where I sat down with David Sparks where I talk about approaching your career in a similar fashion to approaching your technology. Your value to the business is...
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Video: Software Secures the World
Martin Casado doesn’t have a proper job since he left VMware. This gives him times to think deeply about the future of IT security as part of his role of wasting investors money at A16Z and considering...
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Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs...
Its become clear that the only way to improve security of certificate authorities is to follow through on threats. Symantec has been delinquent since 2012 in securing their processes and software. We...
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Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Cluster Management Protocol Remote Code...
Serious and easily exploited flaws in older Cisco IOS software. Commonly used, but old, switches used for Campus and SME Data Centres. Serious problem. Thoughts: Demonstrates how older Cisco devices...
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Response: AT&T Joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member
Once upon a time its was all vendors in the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced that AT&T has...
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