The first company where I worked as a “systems administrator” had no Internet connectivity at all when I started. By the time I left, I had installed an analog phone line which was shared amongst several users with modems for dial-up service. The connectivity options in 1995 were limited, and very expensive. Our company operated […]
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How not to do Internet Connectivity
My first IT job was at a small company in Novato, California, that designed and built museum exhibits. At the time most companies either designed the exhibits or built them, but ours was the only one that did both. You could separate the services, and just do one or the other, but our end-to-end model […]
Netstalgia: Bad Timing
After I left TAC I worked for two years at a Gold Partner in San Francisco. One of my first customers there was one of my most difficult, and it all came down to timing. I was dispatched to perform a network assessment of a small real-estate SaaS company in the SF East Bay. Having […]
TAC Tales #16: To microburst or not to microburst
I’ve mentioned before that EIGRP SIA was my nightmare case at TAC, but there was one other type of case that I hated–QoS problems. Routing protocol problems tend to be binary. Either the route is there or it isn’t; either the pings go through or they don’t. Even when a route is flapping, that’s just […]
Moscone Microwave
My first full-time networking job was at the San Francisco Chronicle. Now there isn’t much to the Chronicle anymore, but in the early 2000’s the newspaper was still going strong. It was the beginning of the decline, but most people still took their local newspaper as their primary source of news. Being a network engineer […]