How about a little layer 1 Friday combined with Netstalgia? Back in the 1990’s I was doing desktop and light network support for a variety of very small clients in San Francisco, mostly advertising agencies. Ad agencies were experiencing a boom because of the dotcom era. VCs funneled money into dotcoms who funneled the money […]
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Networking Simplicity
There’s a lot of talk about networking simplicity these days. There’s been a lot of talk about networking simplicity, in fact, for as long as I can remember. The drive to simplify networking has certainly been the catalyst for many new products, most (but not all) unsuccessful. Sometimes we forget that networking has some inherent […]
Apple Certified…what??
I’m thinking of doing some video blogging and kicking it off with a series with my thoughts on technical certifications. Are they valuable or just a vendor racket? Should you bother to invest time in them? Why do the questions sometimes seem plain wrong? Meanwhile, a little Netstalgia about the first technical certification I (almost) […]
A Passive Star
I was hoping to do a few technical posts but my lab is currently being moved, so I decided to kick off another series of posts I call “NetStalgia”. The TAC tales continue to be popular, but I only spent two years in TAC and most cases are pretty mundane and not worthy of a […]
In Praise of Vendor Lock-In
There is one really nice thing about having a blog whose readership consists mainly of car insurance spambots: I don’t have to feel guilty when I don’t post anything for a while. I had started a series on programmability, but I managed to get sidetracked by the inevitable runup to Cisco Live that consumes Cisco […]
Routing and Switching: An exam in flux
In the second article in the “Ten Years a CCIE” series, I discuss the Routing and Switching written exam, and the changes to the CCIE exam in the early 2000s. Passing the written As was most common in the early 2000’s I attempted my Routing and Switching exam first. Having passed the CCNP exams, my […]