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
A short clip from the Tech Field Day Podcast at NFD40. Yes, networks need more telemetry, but only if the data is clean and you look at the whole system rather than the network in isolation.
13 Apr 2026 · 1 min read
A Tech Field Day Podcast panel ahead of NFD40 with Tom Hollingsworth and Scott Robohn. Modern gear can finally give us all the telemetry we want. The harder problem is what to do with it.
7 Apr 2026 · 2 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
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
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
Super excited to be a delegate again at Networking Field Day 37 March 19th & 20th 2025! Presenting will be Selector, BT & Versa showing off their latest
7 Mar 2025 · 1 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