It’s been a very busy month or so. June is always like that, it seems. There’s ARRL Field Day, which is always the last rainy weekend in June. This year, Cisco Live was in June, and that typically includes Tech…
An Update for my Adoring Fans
I feel like a teenage girl with a fashion blog who hasn’t posted in 6 months and comes back with “I know I haven’t posted in a while…” Sigh. It’s been right at a year since I actually published a…
Cisco Live US 2017 – Saturday Adventure
For the last couple years, on the Saturday before Cisco Live US kicks off, we like to go and do something in the host city. Nothing big. Nothing fancy. Just something we aren’t going to be able to do once…
Cisco Live US 2017 – The Plan So Far
Put it on your calendar. Cisco Live US is June 25 – 29, 2017, in Las Vegas. This is the largest conference I go to every year, and it’s the highlight of my professional year. I’ve been going for a…
Cisco Clock Issue – This Is Really Bad
Check out this advisory from Cisco that came out a couple days ago. I’ll summarize for you : Thanks to a faulty clock signal component, certain Cisco devices will stop functioning after about 18 months and become really expensive bricks! If you read through it, you see phrases like “we expect product failures” and “is not recoverable.”
ASIC Programmability from Barefoot Networks
Think about the fastest switch in your network and why it’s so fast.