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Cisco Clock Issue - This Is Really Bad

Check out this advisory from Cisco that came out a couple days ago. You need to read it and act on it immediately! 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!

ASIC Programmability from Barefoot Networks

Full disclosure : I was lucky to be among a group of networking influencers invited to Silicon Valley to visit some networking companies and see what they were offering to the market. I was flown out and given accommodations at the expense of Gestalt IT – the company that organized the event.

QoS? Really?

I wrote this post during Cisco Live and said “I’ll just give it a once-over tonight and publish it.” That was something like 6 weeks ago now. What a loser I am. Yes, really. QoS has actually gotten some attention this year. After how many years of living in

Cisco Live 2016 - Everything Is Coming Together

It seems that Cisco Live is about the only thing I blog about in the last…well, few years. At least I’m still writing, even if it is twice a year. 🙂 Here’s a summary about Cisco Live for those who live in a dark hole. It’s July

Cisco Live - The Complaints

You should know by now that I always find something to complain about. Is that a bad thing? Probably. Does it help improve things? Absolutely! Again, I love going to Cisco Live every year. Without question, it’s my favorite event of the year. It’s a great event with

Cisco Live 2015 - Helping Others

Another year, another Cisco Live. Boy, was it a good one. San Diego is a great city, and convention center there is plenty big to take care of all 25k attendees. On top of that, the city itself is equipped to handle groups of 40 roaming the streets looking for

FEMA and Your Business Continuity Plan

I passed the ROUTE exam a few days/weeks/months/something ago and decided to pursue certifications of another sort for a while. The wife and I are trying our best to help the community through our ham radio training, so I decided to go down that path a bit