Network strategy, automation advisory and industry analysis.
Every network engineer doing this work for any length of time has a telecom procurement horror story. The circuit that took six months to install. The carrier that
5 May 2026 · 11 min read
AI networking, much like everything else in the space, is developing very quickly and has what feels like a new acronym per day. Between UEC, ESUN, NCCL and
24 Apr 2026 · 10 min read
In 1980, a quantum physicist named David Bohm published a book that had absolutely nothing to do with network engineering. Wholeness and the Implicate Order argued that reality
25 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
I recently joined Greg Bryan to talk about the real state of AIOps in network management. What's working, what's hype, and where engineers should
5 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
In 2017, Google researchers published a foundational paper called "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the transformer architecture that now powers ChatGPT, Claude and basically
24 Jan 2026 · 3 min read
The network automation market hit $15 billion this year. It'll double to $30 billion by 2028. Those numbers would've seemed absurd a decade ago
11 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers plus other natural language AI interfaces that integrate with select network management and monitoring systems, I have
26 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Mike Trappe and I had a great conversation on the Network Buzz, a Laketec Podcast. We took a fast, plain-English tour of AI for networking. I traced
12 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
The last week of June 2025 was pretty transformational for HPE networking. While most of us were still processing the stuff we learned at HPE Discover 2025 (June
7 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
I just spent a few days (May 13-16, 2025) at the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) conference and I could tell there's a shift
21 May 2025 · 4 min read
I had the opportunity to attend Networking Field Day 37 where BT delivered a fascinating presentation on quantum networking. As someone immersed all things networking, I've
11 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
The year 2025 marks my 26th in data networking as a profession and over 30 years since I started experimenting with networks. As I find myself between engagements,
27 Mar 2025 · 7 min read