OpenFlow Is Dead. Long Live OpenFlow.
Remember OpenFlow? The hammer that was set to solve all of our vaguely nail-like problems? Remember how everything was going to be based on OpenFlow going forward and the world was going to be a better...
View ArticleHPE Networking: Past, Present, and Future
I had the chance to attend HPE Discover last week by invitation from their influencer team. I wanted to see how HPE Networking had been getting along since the acquisition of Aruba Networks last year....
View ArticleTwo Takes On ASIC Design
Making ASICs is a tough task. We learned this last year at Cisco Live Berlin from this conversation with Dave Zacks: Cisco spent 6 years building the UADP ASIC that powers their next generation...
View ArticleNetworking Grows To Invisibility
Networking is done. The way you have done things before is finished. The writing has been on the wall for quite a while now. But it’s going to be a good thing. The Old Standard Networking purchase...
View ArticleNetwork Longevity – Think Car, Not iPhone
One of the many takeaways I got from Future:Net last week was the desire for networks to do more. The presenters were talking about their hypothesized networks being able to make intelligent decisions...
View ArticleNetwork Visibility with Barefoot Deep Insight
As you may have heard this week, Barefoot Networks is back in the news with the release of their newest product, Barefoot Deep Insight. Choosing to go down the road of naming a thing after what it...
View Article802.11ax Is NOT A Wireless Switch
802.11ax is fast approaching. Though not 100% ratified by the IEEE, the spec is at the point where most manufacturers and vendors are going to support what’s current as the “final” version for now....
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Chip Shortages Aren’t Sweet for Networking
Have you tried to order networking gear recently? You’re probably cursing because the lead times on most everything are getting long. It’s not uncommon to see lead times on wireless access points or...
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The Network Does Too Much
I’m at Networking Field Day this week and it’s good to be back in person around other brilliant engineers and companies. One of the other fun things that happens at Networking Field Day is that I get...
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A Modest Proposal for Cisco Interface Naming
If you’re going to be configuring an interface in a switch, which one are you going to use? The interface has a name and a number based on where it is on the device. The numbering part is fairly easy...
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