technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
It's been a crazy for weeks for me... vacation, consulting engagements, traveling to Reno, NV to stand up a new network - rack, stack, install, configure, test and turnover. So I thought after returning to Philadelphia this past week that things … [Continue reading]
In a previous podcast, Network Broadcast Storm Episode 5 - Network Monitoring, I talked very briefly about technical debt but after listening to the show I thought I really didn't do the topic any favors so I thought I'd write about it here briefly. … [Continue reading]
You have 1Gbps access with 100Mbps port on our WAN link... are you sure you have your router configured properly?A year ago I was asked to investigate why VoIP calls were experiencing poor audio quality across an AT&T AVPN (Ethernet to MPLS) … [Continue reading]
I very recently had an interesting consulting engagement. The customer was using a SonicWALL firewall to do the routing for all their internal VLANs and wasn't getting the throughput or performance that they were expecting from their HP 1Gbps … [Continue reading]
I just recently finished listening to, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. It was both a confirmation of the day to day struggles for those of us working in … [Continue reading]