If you’re not a network engineer and my generation or older, “ATM” means Automatic Teller Machine. If you’re younger, you don’t know what that means because you’ve never paid for anything in cash. If you’re a network engineer of a certain age, ATM means something else: Asynchronous Transfer Mode. ATM was a potential god technology […]
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Bubbles, dotcoms, and AI
Today the Wall Street journal published an article (paywall) asking if the AI-boom data center mania might be inflating a bubble along the lines of the “internet’s infrastructure build-out in the late 1990s”. Well, gee, ya think? I lived through that bubble. Right when I was graduating college, the Internet (I still use the capital […]
In those days, you had to build a lab…
In this article in my series, Ten Years a CCIE, I discuss the challenge of building and maintaining a lab, and the question of building versus not building a physical lab. Acquiring Gear As I mentioned in a previous post, GNS3 was not available at the time I took the CCIE exam. This meant that […]
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 […]