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CCIE Emeritus Journey to Success
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ACI as a Transit: Routing Checkboxes
ACI Transit Overview As we continue to deploy fabrics we always joke about these routing checkboxes shooting us in the foot. We play with different scenarios in the lab to ensure we understand how these pesky boxes work and what other options we have for future...
ACI L4-7 Unmanaged Go-Through Mode (Transparent FW)
L4-L7 Unmanaged Go-Through Mode L4-7 Unmanaged Go-Through Mode (Transparent FW) I have been playing around with service graphs quite a bit and wanted to share my findings with deployment. This lab deployment of service graphs using the ACI fabric (2.2(1n), an ASAv...
Data Center Infrastructure for Networking Engineers
When I created the Data Center Infrastructure for Networking Engineers webinar, I wanted to reach these goals: Understand the data center acronym soup; Build a conceptual framework of the data center technologies and solutions.
Snabb Switch Update on Software Gone Wild
we did a series of podcasts on Snabb Switch (Snabb Switch and OpenStack, Deep Dive), a software-only switch delivering 10-20 Gbps of forwarded bandwidth per x86 core. In the meantime, Snabb community slowly expanded, optimized the switching code, built a number of...
Data Center Infrastructure for Networking Engineers
When I created the Data Center Infrastructure for Networking Engineers webinar, I wanted to reach these goals: Understand the data center acronym soup; Build a conceptual framework of the data center technologies and solutions. Every now and then I get feedback from a...
Review: Ansible for Networking Engineers
An engineer attending Ansible for Networking Engineers online course sent me this feedback: This is a great place to learn Ansible and Network Automation from scratch. Starting with an emphasis on the fundamentals (YAML, JSON, Jinja2, how to group your network devices...