Ethan Banks read my post on IRR and RPSL and wanted the long version. Jake Khuon, who ran RADb at Merit in the 1990s, joined us: what routing policy is, why you will not get routed without it in 2025, how the registries fit together, and how to get started.
30 May 2025 · 3 min read
Several vendors at NFD37 described their products as air gapped. The delegates had questions. A Tech Field Day Podcast on what the term should mean, why "isolated" is the better word, and how to hold vendors to it.
15 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Tech Field Day gave the USNUA a slot at NFD37. I walked the delegates through what it is, how the chapters run, how we keep sponsored events vendor-neutral, and Scott Robohn shared what year one of the Virginia NUG looked like.
24 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Phil Gervasi runs the upstate New York NUG, so he had Chris Kane and me on Telemetry Now to tell the origin story: why we started, how a NUG night runs, how we keep it vendor-neutral, and how to start one where you live.
21 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
An On-Premise IT Roundtable recorded at Networking Field Day 28 with Tom Hollingsworth, Jordan Villarreal and Martin Duggan. Overlays on overlays, stretched layer 2 that nobody wants, and the uncomfortable idea that a lot of our complexity exists because network engineers never pushed back.
24 Jun 2022 · 3 min read
A Gestalt IT Showcase where Aamer Akhter walked a delegate panel through the technical side of VMware SASE: intelligence, security, access and WAN services across a hybrid enterprise. I sat on the panel with Chris Grundemann, Jody Lemoine and Scott Bollinger.
24 Aug 2021 · 1 min read
A Gestalt IT Showcase with Karl Brown of VMware on why the enterprise is no longer a perimeter-secured fortress, and what that means for how the network is secured. I sat on the delegate panel with Chris Grundemann, Jody Lemoine and Scott Bollinger.
24 Aug 2021 · 1 min read
An On-Premise IT Roundtable spotlight on Palo Alto Networks with Chris Grundemann and Rohan Grover. Recorded in the thick of the pandemic, when we were scaling customers onto Prisma Access in droves. SASE turned out to be more than a rebrand.
8 Feb 2021 · 2 min read
Episode 23 of Built in Ohio, on how I got started in technology at seven, the path to founding WAN Dynamics, and building a statewide network of networkers with the Ohio Networking User Group.
29 Jul 2020 · 1 min read
June 2020, when everyone's workday had moved onto Zoom. A short demo of a live video call surviving a failover to 4G on Dell EMC SD-WAN, recorded at WAN Dynamics.
11 Jun 2020 · 1 min read
The Ohio Networking User Group's Winter 2020 virtual meeting: a presentation on the Ohio IX and a panel of network engineers on the state of the industry. The recording Ohio IX later posted to YouTube.
15 Feb 2020 · 1 min read
Back on Network Collective's Underlay with Jordan Martin and Eyvonne Sharp. The early SD-WAN hype said MPLS was dead. Several years in, Matt Ouellette and I talked through what customers were actually doing when they picked circuits for their SD-WAN.
26 Jun 2019 · 1 min read