Spirent Communications Looks toward the Enterprise with new products and new angles to existing products. Spirent has traditionally gone after service provider markets with their product offerings. They are branching out and I liked a couple of their ideas quite a bit. It is nice to write a post in my “Tools” category, we do not… Continue reading Spirent Communications Looks Toward the Enterprise
SDN Using DNS Naming for Classification
SDN Using DNS Naming for Classification Update: First, a Refresher. The initial project was outlined here Abstract Current generation networks are under scrutiny for not presenting the proper amount of flexibility at scale to accomplish technical and business objectives. At the core of the problem are the constraints imposed by the network revolving around the… Continue reading SDN Using DNS Naming for Classification
Network Management System NMS – Statseeker
Network Management NMS – Statseeker Not a Swiss Army Knife, but a Sharp Blade: At Network Field Day #4 we had a a company named Statseeker who is in the Network Management business. Stewart Reed from Statseeker, an Australian presented and demoed the product. We were almost outnumbered something friends, John Harrington an Irishman, Anythony Burke an Australian… Continue reading Network Management System NMS – Statseeker
SDN Using Names
SDN Using Names SDN Using Names as an approach to simplifying policy application and ease operations barrier: For anyone who is visiting for the first time, first thank you for visiting. By day I design networks with completely traditional means, the handful of scalable architectures with a slight amount of flexibility, BGP/VPNs thats it. I am a one… Continue reading SDN Using Names
Network Field Day 4
[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Network Field Day 4[/fancy_header3] Network Field Day 4 is upon us again! I was honored by the Network Field Day delegates and asked to participate as a delegate in Network Field Day 4 in Silicon Valley starting at 1:30PM PST. Not only do the Field Day event staff record the events but they also… Continue reading Network Field Day 4
OpenStack Folsom Quantum Devstack Installation Tutorial
[fancy_header3 variation=”steelblue”]OpenStack Folsom Quantum Devstack Installation Tutorial and Screencast[/fancy_header3] [colored_box variation=”steelblue”] Installing OpenStack Grizzly with DevStack : Here is an updated Grizzly DevStack tutorial since Folsom is coming to an end. [/colored_box] This is a quick guide that includes a diagram of a working reference architecture for installation of the OpenStack Folsom release using which… Continue reading OpenStack Folsom Quantum Devstack Installation Tutorial
HP Announces Their SDN Controller
HP Announces Their SDN Controller Hp announces their SDN controller at Interop: HP is not new to the OpenFlow conversation. HP was one of the first, if not the first networking companies to make their OpenFlow enabled switch firmware agent GA (generally available) in 16 products in 2011 and now up to 24 products in… Continue reading HP Announces Their SDN Controller
The Control Plane, Data Plane and Forwarding Plane in Networks
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]The Control Plane, Data Plane and Forwarding Plane in Networks[/fancy_header3] The Control Plane, Data Plane and Forwarding Plane in Networks is the heart core DNA in today’s networking hardware to move IP packets from A to Z. The Management plane is another vital component but also widely excepted as user to hardware interaction. These… Continue reading The Control Plane, Data Plane and Forwarding Plane in Networks