Python: Building a simple NETCONF RPC Tool
For a while now I’ve been playing with NETCONF primarily with Cisco Nexus devices.
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Custom Python Packages With PyPi For Networking Peoples
Quite frequently I write and build code to control and harvest data from network infrastructure.
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White Box Switching: Broadcom StrataXGS Tomahawk
A previous post listed the excitement I felt when reading through the Cavium XPliant announcement.
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IPv6 Adoption in the UK
One of my biggest annoyances for a while has been the lack of interest in IPv6 in the UK.
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Network Automation & Controller Questionnaire
With all of the current trends coming in to the industry around policy based network configuration, network automation and controller value add, do you understand why and where the trends are coming from?
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Big Switch Tap Fabric
Before we go in to observed trends, let’s put some context on this post and definitions around monitoring.
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White Box Switching: Goodbye Trident II, Hello Cavium XPliant
Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) that produce incumbent profit busting white box switching technology could soon be releasing the next wave of programmable networking based on technology from a silicon company best known for it’s encryption products.
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Cisco ACI: Allowing the smarts to scale
As horizontal scalability demands increase for policy based fabrics such as Cisco’s ACI and performance demands push the development of high speed Ethernet standards like 25G, 50G, 100G and beyond in to 400G, how that data is pushed and pulled on the fabric begins to become a problem.
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Network Field Day 8 – #NFD8
After watching the Tech Field Day (TFD) events for a while, I decided to fill out the form and apply to be a delegate.
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