Why Is My SFP Not Working?
Tom Hollingsworth shares his frustration at non-support of third-party interface modules (SFPs, as Tom calls them). If you try to use a non-vendor device, the switch will spit out an error and refuse...
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Why Facebook’s Open Compute Switches Don’t Matter. To You.
Tom Hollingsworth comments: Facebook announced at Interop that they are soliciting ideas for building their own top-of-rack (ToR) switch via the Open Compute Project. This sent the tech media into a...
View ArticleCLUS – Networking At It’s Best
We love going to industry events, and the pinnacle for Cisco-focused folks is Cisco Live US. We’ll be there next month, and our own Tom Hollingsworth wrote up a great piece explaining the value of...
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CCIE Loses Its Voice
It’s the end of the CCIE Voice, with a new Collaboration certification taking its place. Tom Hollingsworth discusses the good and the bad of this move. Cisco has decided to retire the CCIE Voice in...
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Software Defined Cars
Tom Hollingsworth at The Networking Nerd comments: I try to find ways to discuss advanced topics like this with people that may not understand what a hypervisor is or what a forwarding engine is really...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Data Center: Marketing or Meaty?
Tom Hollingsworth writing for Network Computing writes: It seems like all IT hardware is now being defined by software. In the network, software defined networking (SDN) is a daily topic of debate. On...
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