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
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
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
A 2019 conversation on the Fortify Your Data podcast: how I found SD-WAN by selling against it, the shortest definition I can give, why it usually does not save money, and the manufacturer whose WAN was 60% YouTube.
20 May 2019 · 3 min read
Three SD-WAN analysts walk into a podcast. Greg Bryan of TeleGeography, Steve Garson of SD-WAN Experts and me, on the business drivers, hype versus real deployments, whether you can ditch MPLS for DIA, and how to build a vendor shortlist.
1 Mar 2019 · 1 min read
My first Network Collective appearance. Jordan Martin and Eyvonne Sharp wanted engineers who had designed, implemented and operated SD-WAN for real, now that the dust was settling in early 2019. Jedadiah Casey and I obliged.
9 Jan 2019 · 1 min read
Three minutes, no slides. An impromptu demo of pulling a circuit out of a VeloCloud edge and watching the call keep going. This is the moment that convinced me SD-WAN was real, recorded so I could stop describing it.
14 Nov 2017 · 1 min read
A VeloCloud webinar I hosted with Curtis McEwen of Saber Healthcare on scaling a healthcare network through acquisition without the WAN becoming the bottleneck.
19 Sep 2017 · 1 min read