What Might It Mean if Cisco Dumps HP as Certified Partner ?

Thinking through the impact of the breakup between Cisco and HP as announced on Silicon Angle.

Is This the Year of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the LAN ?

A num­ber of switch vendors have announced (and they are cer­tainly hop­ing) that 10Gb Ethernet is the THING for 2010. Really ?

This Year I’m Working Harder on Mistakes

One of my res­ol­u­tion for the com­ing dec­ade is to accept my mis­takes grace­fully and learn from them.

Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology

Chris Evans believes that “FCoE” will rule the world. Hah. I believe it’s just a trans­ition tech­no­logy that drags Storage out of it’s closed, pro­pri­et­ary mind­set into the open col­lab­or­at­ive world. Data Networks can eas­ily adapt.

Etherealmind — Motto Selection

I’m get­ting some new busi­ness cards prin­ted and want to ask you for some input on a suit­able slogan.

Cynicism and Regret Are Powerful Design Tools

If there are two aspects of my per­son­al­ity that drive my design pro­cess, its Cynicism and Regret. Let me tell you that bit­ter tales of dis­ap­point­ment, let downs and fail­ure that make for bet­ter designs.

Rant: People Are Not Valuable or Why I Don’t Attend Office Parties

I am often asked to attend parties with my co-​​workers for people who are leav­ing, Christmas or team parties. Then I real­ised how little it really mattered and got on with my life.

Blessay: Working for a Reseller or End User Is Different Like Doctoring and Parenting

Where you choose to work in the Networking Industry can come to down to a simple choice: Are you a Doctor or a Parent ?

Blinken Lights, It’s All About the Blinking Lights

Classic Slashdot.

Networking Is Cloud Ready. But Where Is Network Management ?

Doug Gourlay recently pos­tu­lated that the Networking Industry was not ready for Cloud Computing, and there are no answers to the tech­nical chal­lenges that lie ahead. What a load of tosh. All we need is pas­tel col­ours and roun­ded corners and we are there.

Too Many Directions, Too Much to Think About

I’m work­ing on too many things — too many tech­no­lo­gies, too many vendors. How did I get here ?

Microsoft OpenDocument Doesn’t REALLY Work

Microsoft con­tin­ues to dis­ap­point its cus­tom­ers. This time the loudly announced ODF sup­port doesn’t appear to actu­ally work.

Musing:Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery

Musing:There Is Hope for the World After All

Knowing that there are young people like this in the world is excit­ing. Not only does she do math, she does APPLIED math and can clearly artic­u­late the vis­ion and applic­a­tion of the sci­ence.
Network Designers could learn a lot from watch­ing this.
ISEF ’08 Winner: Knot Theory Mathematics
Via Boing Boing.

Design: When to Choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers) ?

Some tech­no­lo­gies just don’t catch on, no mat­ter how good they are. Free Space Optics or Ethernet Lasers is one of those tech­no­lo­gies. I take a quick look here.

Diagrams and Colour Pencils

When work­ing through the cre­at­ive phase of a design, I use col­our pen­cils to lay­out dia­grams and think through issues.

Musing:How Long Does It Take to Transfer Data ? Rules of Thumb

When it comes trans­fer­ring large files or data sets ( say big­ger than 10 Gigabytes), many people for­get that the trans­fer time becomes significant.

NAT’D or Translated — the Votes Are in — We Have a WINNER

The poll votes are in, the Magic Gnomes have care­fully examined all the bal­lots (in addi­tion to the their day job of check­ing all the packets

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