LEO Internet
Starlink: First Impressions
So my Starlink kit is finally here! A number of folks have asked for first impressions so I’m going to break it down. Long story short, it’
1 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
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podcast
Security Discussion on The WAN Manager Podcast
Had a great discussion with Greg Bryan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregscottbryan/], Senior Manager of Enterprise Research @ Telegeography [https://www.telegeography.com] who is a global connectivity
17 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
LEO Internet
Starlink Experiment Underway!
Ohio Starlink beta signups, check your inbox! I signed up for it last spring and have been anxiously anticipating the email inviting me in. Well today is the
8 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
OpenFlow
SDN's Promise Lives On
I’m not sure if anyone else remembers the early days of OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking (SDN), but it was going to change networking for good. The
3 Feb 2021 · 3 min read
5G
Starlink vs. 5G
There has been a lot of interesting developments in the mobile/wireless connectivity world as of late. Despite being told for many years 5G [https://en.wikipedia.org/
16 Nov 2020 · 3 min read
design
Is your Internet connectivity REALLY redundant?
The CenturyLink/Level3 internet outage on August 30th, 2020 got a lot of network engineers thinking about internet reachability and the ways things can go wrong. The way
2 Sep 2020 · 4 min read
sase
What do YOU want from SD-WAN?
There have been a lot of discussions lately about the maturation of the SD-WAN market. Much of what I’ve read and heard is that SD-WAN
23 Aug 2020 · 2 min read
ohioix
Ohio Internet Exchange (Ohio IX)
In March 2020, I volunteered to become a part of the Ohio Internet Exchange aka Ohio IX Technical Steering Committee. If you haven’t heard of the Ohio
6 Aug 2020 · 2 min read
events
First (OH)NUG Virtual Event
Due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we were forced to change the Ohio Networking User Group aka (OH)NUG meeting to be a virtual
3 Aug 2020 · 1 min read
sd-wan
SD-WAN: A Technology That Changed My Life
Six years ago, in 2014, I worked at a regional telecommunications service provider that had encountered this technology called “SD-WAN” in our market. I was the head
27 Apr 2020 · 1 min read
fortinet
Fortinet FortiGate HA Pair Mystery
Originally written by Kevin Giusti for the WAN Dynamics site. Hosting to keep the knowledge alive! Recently while setting up a new Fortinet FortiGate firewall High Availability (HA)
13 Apr 2020 · 3 min read
Writing
VXLAN + EVPN in Campus Switching?
I recently received some Arista 720XP PoE Campus Switches [https://www.arista.com/en/products/720xp-series] a key component of Arista’s Cognitive Campus efforts. While reviewing
15 Dec 2019 · 2 min read