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by Nick Buraglio — 4 years ago

Brocade does a double down on SDN

Since Network Field Day 9, I have spent more and more time mentally grinding on what Brocade is doing. I have been a pretty vocal critic of the foundry hardware and software platform since my first experience with it years and years ago. I found... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 4 years ago

OpenDNS acquires BGPMon and the future of route monitoring

For those that run BGP networks, BGPmon is often a tool they turn to for some really unique and hard to find information. Remember back in February 2008 when Pakistan Telecom “blocked” Youtube? That one was a really, really public... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 4 years ago

NetBeez, performance monitoring and the network.

At Networking Field day 9 there was a great deal of discussion regarding monitoring, modeling, and maintaining networks, as would be expected at an event with such a focus. Luckily for us, an interesting product that comes from a company... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 4 years ago

The NEC surprise

When NEC began talking about SDN at Network Field Day 9, I was not sure what to expect. I knew they had been heavily involved with openflow since the early days, and many years ago I was able to get my hands on their early OpenFlow controller... Read more →

by Nick Buraglio — 4 years ago

BigSwitch Networks BigCloud Fabric 2.5

BigSwitch is making waves again, this time with its Big Cloud Fabric product update. I was lucky enough to get a bit of a preview of what was coming and was pleasantly surprised by the new features, finding them functionally useful for both... Read more →