This is a short post covering globally unique multicast IP addresses for both IPv4 and IPv6; this does not cover IGMP, MLD, PIM, BGP-MP, MSDP or any other MC technology other than global addressing.

This article is focused on a basic area of networking. Apologies to any readers who want meatier stuff!

Traditional and modern Enterprises often suffer from inflexible service providers either charging over the odds, taking forever to make changes, or providing overly complex and unreliable services.

If you have taken your foot off the accelerator for as long as I haven’t written a blog post, you could quite rightly think the world has gone mad.

Business acumen in networking There are many arguments which may define how successful a project or rollout will be.

VRF’s (Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances) are massively useful concepts within network operating systems.

It would be so nice for everyone you work with to be reading from the same piece of paper, including management and the people who hold the purse strings.

The Cisco ME3750 is an Ethernet services switch compliant to MEF 9 and 14 and can serve in a multitude of roles from delivering Martini draft L2 connectivity, provide H-QOS, VLAN re-writes, QinQ, CFM (OAM) and more.