Giving Cisco Telepresence its Own QoS Queue is Some Expensive Real Estate
QoS is a tricky beast. In fact, while we are in the midst of WAN Transformation, which puts a lot more VoIP on our new MPLS network, it's become clear that QoS design is the trickiest part of the design.
View ArticleI've Graduated and Now I'm Back (to Blogging More)
Yes, my blogging rate has been poor over the last 6 months. I was in the final semester of my MBA program and, after hours of homework each week, just didn't have the motivation to blog. Well, I'm...
View ArticleCisco Is Getting a Bad Rap on the Corporate Tax Issue
Cisco can't seem to shake the image - at least in blogs - that it's some sort of corporate tax cheat. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
View ArticleFIB Suppression and Virtual Aggregation to Help the Internet Scale
Now that I'm done with my MBA, it's back to business travel. Since a lot of my trips are from East coast to West coast, that gives me a lot of time to read on the flights. Last week, on my flight out...
View ArticleDo You Get the Feeling That It Won't Be Enough WAN Bandwidth?
The primary goal of our WAN Transformation project was to give more bandwidth - a lot more bandwidth - to our field sites. A field site with approximately 50 people will get 30 Mbps MPLS bandwidth (and...
View ArticlePre-Quarterly Earnings Announcement News About Cisco's Performance is Tough
Before this evening's earnings announcement from Cisco, the Wall Street Journal published a tough article about Cisco's recent performance. The WSJ article requires a login, but to summarize:
View ArticleHow About This for an Interesting Merger - Juniper and Riverbed
At the beginning of the year, the editors at Network World send us bloggers a question of mergers we expect in the next year. It's a guessing game (for fun) and an idea for a blog. I'm a bit late to...
View ArticleInternet Access at 30,000 Feet
I had my first experience with airplane wifi this week on a trip to California. Upon boarding the Southwest flight, I noticed a sticker on the plane saying "Wifi-ready" (or something like that). This...
View ArticleTechnology Development Process
A little over 3 years ago, I wrote two blogs on network design process: Network Design Process Network Design Process - Part 2 In those blogs I referenced Cisco's PDIOO (Plan, Design, Implementation,...
View ArticleTime to Move On - The End of Regular Blogging
Despite my proclamation that, now that I finished the MBA, I was back to blogging, the truth is, I've lost the motivation to blog each week. It takes 2-3 hours to write a good blog and, while that is...
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