Concepts
A Few Good Apps
Developer: Network team, did you order the Code upgrade?! Operations Manager: You don’t have to…
Concepts
True Software Defined Networking (SDN)
The world is, and has been, buzzing about software defined networking. It’s going to revolutionize…
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Engineers Unplugged Episode 14: Application Affinity
I had the pleasure of speaking with Nils Swart (@nlnils) of Plexxi about applications and…
Concepts
What Network Virtualization Isn’t
Brad Hedlund recently posted an excellent blog on Network Virtualization. Network Virtualization is the label…
Technical Deep Dive
Taking a Good Hard Look at SDN
SDN is sitting at the peak of it’s hype cycle (at least I hope it’s…
Concepts
The App on the Crap (An SDN Story)
I’m feeling Seussish again and looking to tackle SDN this time. If you missed my…
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Network Overlays: An Introduction
While network overlays are not a new concept, they have come back into the limelight,…
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Data Center Overlays 101
I’ve been playing around with Show Me (www.showme.com) as a tool to add some white…
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Stateless Transport Tunneling (STT)
STT is another tunneling protocol along the lines of the VXLAN and NVGRE proposals. As…