You say 4 billion addresses. I say its less than the 7 billion people on our planet. And welcome to the internet-of-things. If you add up everything on the planet that would need an IP by the end of the decade, 7 billion wont cut it either.
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Category: Network Architecture
The Era of Network-Modeling
In a stable Network, the state and intent are converged. From the perspective of Monitoring, the State is always the source-of-truth. Anything that should be monitored…
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Thinking beyond Network Automation
Network architects often seem to be at a loss for words when asked to describe Network Automation. This is understandable though. Automation is a broad subject. From provisioning, to telemetry and monitoring, there are several faces to automation.
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So I’ve decided to work on my CCIE (again!)
Being that this is the year of SDN, and very few people can refrain from tossing in some kind of SDN related acronym at every meeting, I decided to take a break from the SDN chit-chat and delve into pure networking for a bit (if thats even possible.)
Perhaps I’ll go for a certification, or two.
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Spanning Tree Protocol Cheatsheet – 802.1d for CCNA
Now why anyone would use spanning tree protocol, is beyond me! … I run from it when I can, and I don’t want to have anything to do with STP. No, seriously!
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