So as part of the new job I needed to get a new phone. Since I'm not a big fan of Microsoft Windows Mobile, I wanted something different as a…
The first week in the new job
So I've started the new job.. and the first week is over. Three days of training in Paris, in which it feels like I've met more than half of the…
The past is bright, the past is Orange
Well, it has come to that time again (nearly 11 years later), and I'm off to a different company. So shortly I'll be working for Ipanema Technologies, instead of Orange.…
Ciena to gain Carrier Ethernet with World Wide Packets announcement
Ciena Networks is acquiring privately-held World Wide Packets for $200mn in cash and $90mn in shares. World Wide Packets will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ciena. It brings a…
Impact under acceleration
So investigating some issues for the inks company today, I come across a problem that we've seen before with Junipers WX appliances.. A site has problems transferring data across the…
Update on Juniper WXC WCCP support
Following on from my look at Juniper WXC and WCCP for resilient sites, it transpires that the issue with IGMP snooping needing to be disabled on certain switches is due…
Packetshaper and PolicyCentre reconnections.
The large legal organization which I do some work for has had some issues recently.. for some reason the PolicyCentre for their Packetshaper environment has stopped responding (it can be…
Renewing Web Hosting
Time to renew the web hosting service again. So having looked at other services and the costs, and the need to support PHP and MySQL for the kind of things…