By: Matt Smith Migrating to the cloud can save your business both time and money. In fact, O’Reilly Media reports that cloud implementation can save a company as much as 29 percent over three years. Furthermore, employees of companies with networks in the cloud can access data and applications from …

Well friends, it seems that time has finally come.  We’ve been talking about it for more than a decade.   But now it has finally come true.  We are out of IPv4 address space and we finally need to move to IPv6. We all knew this day would come, but …

Here we go again.  Cisco has made a change to the way we do things in our day to day network engineering lives and has failed to get the word out. What we found cost us quite a bit of time and man hours to correct. We recently had an …

Cisco's expected to report fourth quarter results that meet or slightly beat Wall Street expectations, based on a robust North American market and sound fundamentals. Cisco's stock rode an upswing earlier this week based on these factors and some [...]

Today Fluke Networks announced MultiFiber Pro, the industry’s first MPO (Multi-Fiber Push On) fiber trunk tester that validates performance of all 12 trunk fibers in a single test – reducing testing time by 95 percent and saving the average data center $17,000 in labor costs. The new Fluke Networks MultiFiber …

Why are network engineers so bitter about managing virtualization? Rivka Gewirtz Little Published: 13 Apr 2012 Network engineers are tired of being viewed as plumbers—especially when it comes to managing virtualization.  After all, the job of supporting virtualized traffic goes so much deeper than providing an always-available pipe. Systems teams …

What do you think about when you think about learning new networking technologies or even learning to become a Network Engineer?   Most people will no doubt say they think Cisco is the answer. But learning about networking and network engineering doesn’t have to involve Cisco at all.  There are …

If any technology in networking  had identity issues, it would have to be Link Aggregation.   This simple process can never seem to make up its mind what it wants to be called. Link aggregation is the process of combining two or more connections into a larger pipe to allow …

What is ARP? ARP or Address Resolution Protocol is a simple communications protocol used primarily today in IP and Ethernet networks.  It’s main purpose is to discover and associate IP addresses to physical MAC hardware addresses. How does ARP work? When a computer needs to send data across a network …

by Andy Salo Have you ever been in the data center, or out in some remote wiring closet, and realized you need a router config from your TFTP Server and can’t access it? Many people don’t want to leave a TFTP Server continually running on their network since it is not …