CLUS Cisco Meraki and Catalyst Integration: One Step Closer to Disaggregation? Network disaggregation, separating the network operating system and management from the underlying hardware, has been a perennial conversation in the network industry. The tight coupling of vendor networking software with the hardware has been something many of us in the industry just accepted, mostly because there was very little choice.
Aruba Blogs 802.11ax and 5G NR-U - Peace, Love, and RRM LTE in unlicensed spectra was proposed a few years ago. There was concern. Now there’s 5G NR-U to consider.
Aruba Blogs Auditing Secure Web Traffic: Conflicting Demands Individuals and businesses have conflicting needs: privacy and visibility. Whose demands will win?
Gestalt IT Cisco Defense Orchestrator Managing consistent network security policy across multiple devices becomes increasingly complex as more devices are added. Cisco has a solution...
Aruba Blogs Big Ideas in Small Design: SMB vs SME Ask 10 people what the difference is between small to medium business (SMB) and small to medium enterprise (SME), and we’re going to get nearly 10 different answers. Some will say that it’s a distinction of organizational structure. Others will say that an SMB becomes an SME after
Aruba Blogs The Ever-Elusive Single Pane of Glass A Single Pane of Glass (SPoG) gets promoted as a feature, but that first word is the hardest part to achieve.
Aruba Blogs Network Security vs Convenience: A War of Perspective The network was never secure, or at least not in the way we think of as “secure” today.
Aruba Blogs Layers in Layers: Why the OSI Model Still Matters Troubleshooting begins with the physical layer, but the physical layer isn’t what it used to be.
TFD Cisco Live! US 2019 and My TFD Biathlon It's that time of year again. Cisco Live! US with the Tech Field Day Extra sessions, and Security Field Day 2 to follow. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks!
Orange Matter Do Network Engineers Dream of Software Defined Sheep? I really want Software Defined Networking (SDN), or something like it, to be the go-to approach for networking, but can we even agree on what SDN is?
Orange Matter One Framework to Rule Them All Automation and orchestration frameworks tend address specific technology applications. Is it too much to hope for more?
Review SolarWinds NPM 12 NetPath At only 1.0 and four months out of the lab, the NetPath functionality of NPM 12 is already very impressive. It demystifies not only known quantities like internal application paths, but also what’s happening beyond the enterprise network edge at the carriers and the destination networks.
Review Cisco Umbrella Branch The Enterprise Branch Enterprise branch technologies are of a particular interest to me, mostly because my customer base is at the top end of the small enterprise space. They’re not quite big enough to dive completely into full enterprise architectures, but their needs are definitely beyond what has been
Security You Can't Try It If You Don't Knock It Reducing the attack footprint and implementing a poor man's 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) at the same time.
Tips Generate IOS SSH Server Keys on Startup When working with Cisco IOS, I use the following EEM script to generate the SSH key on reload if there isn't one present already.
Perspectives On Being Wrong I have always found it easy to confidently stand on what I know. I have found it even easier to stand on what I think I know. The difficult part is finding the line where one becomes the other. When does confidence become overconfidence?
Tips Simplified NAT Originally published as "Curbing the Evil of NAT (in IOS)" Introduction NAT is a necessary evil. It is necessary because the IPv4 address space would have been exhausted before the end of the 20th century and it can be argued that the Internet as we know it today would never
Certification Crucible and Chrysalis: The Personal Value of the Expert-Level Certification Process Introduction The choice to begin pursuing an expert-level certification is often made lightly. After experiencing the training, study and testing process of the associate-level and the professional-level certifications, it is understandable to expect that the expert level is more of the same; more advanced, but essentially a logical progression. This
