New world networking – It’s about time
Last month I passed my first year anniversary at Plexxi. I have been working on networks and network protocols for close to 25 years and it has been a long time since networking has changed as much as...
View ArticleI am a BGP fanboy
Last week I sat down with Dan Backman and several members of the engineering team at Plexxi to put together the BGP design and configuration for one of our customers. It had been a while since I had...
View ArticleSDN: Capability or Context?
Why is it that the definition of SDN continues to get debated? I think the definition of SDN remains a bit squishy. And while I am not entirely certain that it matters (people shouldn’t be buying SDN;...
View ArticleUnused networking capabilities are useless networking capabilities
Stop me if you have heard this before: “We have had the ability to do that for 10 years. It’s called MPLS.” For whatever reason, the networking industry seems more open to innovation these days than...
View ArticleNetwork Technology Shifts towards IT’s Third Platform
The requirements for next generation applications in the Third Platform era have a profound impact on the network. No longer can we treat the network as a piece of infrastructure that just needs to be...
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