At the last Cisco Live in June, I was asked by marketing to do a “center stage” presentation. My days of getting normal sessions at Cisco Live seem to be over. Perhaps I’m too far into the management track (although that’s changing) to impress the Cisco Live Session Group Managers. Eager to speak again, I […]
Tag: simplicity
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 […]
The War on Expertise
Like many network engineers, I quickly fell in love with my field and worked hard to master it. I got into networking when I was working in desktop support. The behind-the-scenes stuff was way more interesting to me than the front lines. Back in the late nineties, I bought a library of books to learn […]