Many in the SDN world have been tracking the happenings of Plexxi and recently at a Network Field Day I had an opportunity to catch up on what they’ve been doing with the Data Services Engine (DSE). What I heard had be intrigued and excited to continue watching their progress. What’s New With DSE What […]
The Cisco Live Experience
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It’s hard to describe the Cisco Live Experience to someone who’s never been there. Basically it’s Awesome. But what makes it even more enjoyable for me is meeting up with my friends and colleagues that I haven’t seen for a year. Many of you know what I’m talking about. We communicate on twitter, facebook, text […]
Solarwinds Engineers Toolset: IP Address Management
You may already be familiar with Solarwinds Orion and their suite of tools that run on Orion, this is not the only useful product the company provides to network engineers. Not to be overlooked is another product called the Engineers Toolset. The engineers tool set is a portable suite of over 50 applications that are […]
ThousandEyes: A Better Cloud-Based Application Performance Monitoring Solution
Troubleshooting issues in your network is challenging enough, but in the age of SaaS providers things get a little tricky. We now see a lot of finger pointing. Ever hear something like this at work? Network Engineer: It’s not our network, its the SaaS provider. SaaS Provider: It’s not our network, it’s your upstream provider. […]
Networking Field Day 6 Is In My Travel Plans
Monday begins my travel to Networking Field Day, to join the additional delegates for a few “mind-altering” days in San Jose. Events like this, brought to you by Gestalt IT and Stephen Foskett, are a major event in the networking industry because the connect technical media with technical vendors. In a typical trade show you […]
Hands-on with Ruckus Wireless Gear.
When I visited Ruckus Wireless as part of Network Field Day 5, I was rather impressed with the enthusiasm of our presenter, GT Hill, who introduced us to the WiFi market and gave us a bit of Background on Ruckus. That was great, but we’re nerds, so Sandip Patel gave us a nice presentation of […]
