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Archives for November 2014

Tech Notes: Difference Between OS1 and OS2 Fibre Optic Cable

26th November 2014 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog, Tech Notes

These are two standards for single mode fibre optic cabling from a total of  five types of fibre that are generically used today known of “OF types” (OM1, OM2, OM3 for multimode and OS1,OS2 for single mode.) OS1 is for indoor use  i.e. Campus, Data Centre. Cabling is is tight buffered (i.e. manufactured into solid […]

Less Sales, Simpler Products, Easier Buying

21st November 2014 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog, Thought for My Day

Out of sheer frustration this week, I tweeted this and got a big response: The Back Story I’ve wasted about 60 hours of customers time working with resellers & vendors to get a quote for a relatively simple network upgrade. Neither the vendor staffers or the reseller employees knew how the product was licensed or […]

Cisco On Net Neutrality Isn’t What It Seems

17th November 2014 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog

Chambers pointed the finger at Net Neutrality for a slow down in purchasing by carriers in US markets and that he perceives it as damaging to Cisco business interests. I find it more credible that SDN/NFV is slowing capital investments than some far off political change.

Musing: On Using Cisco ACI and VMware NSX in the same network

6th November 2014 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Musing

So, sure, you COULD run NSX and ACI in the same network. No, you WOULD NOT run NSX and ACI in the same network.

Response: Black Energy 2 Malware Router Abuse – Kaspersky

5th November 2014 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog, Security

Kaspersky published a research note on Black Energy malware that uses backdoors and exploits on Cisco routers to install a TCL file, perform surveillance or destruction of the device configuration.   And, they revealed that their Cisco routers with different IOS versions were hacked. They weren’t able to connect to the routers any more by […]

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