Virtela are being acquired by NTT Communications, the ICT portion of NTT . This acquisition will help NTT Com grow their network infrastructure, currently based around Juniper T-series routers. The…
The Great British Internet Filter – how to protect children from the “bad” parts of the Internet
Yesterday David Cameron, Prime Minister, made a speech about making the internet safer for children by cracking down on online pornography. Let's look at what he said about an Internet…
Brocade purchase Vyatta – now has NFV/SDN capability
So Brocade has splashed some cash and will acquire Vyatta. The announcement on the Brocade web site indicates that the deal will close by the end of the year. Vyatta…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…
This one time, when I found two identical MAC addresses…
So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a…
End-of-life: Juniper WX Stack architecture
Juniper Networks has announced in the last couple of days End-of Life for the WX100 devices. This effectively kills off the WX stack architecture as a side-effect. The WX-100 was…
The value in taking both paths at once
Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. Using both paths of an active/backup pair adds bandwidth. We've gone through a whole series of…
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…