All network topics.
I had a great conversation with someone recently about how to understand what TLOCs are in Viptela/Cisco SD-WAN, and a lot of it revolved around terminology. A lot of current routing terminology starts to break down or confuse the discussion about SD-WAN, and TLOCs are no exception as they have Read more…
Just wanted to cross-link to my YouTube channel. I plan to post my videos concerning SD-WAN and anything else that tickles my fancy. Expect tips and tricks around demonstration materials. I’ll still post to my blog when it makes sense to do so, especially when video isn’t the right format. Read more…
Cisco Live 2019: Now Cisco Livelier! I spent a week at Cisco Live US recently, or, as Denise Fishburne calls it, the “Summer Camp for Geeks”. It’s amazing to see how much can change in one year. One year ago, I was an Network Consulting Engineer with Cisco’s Advanced Services Read more…
Spoke: IGMP (Multicast) In the last post, we talked about some of the fundamental details of multicast, the challenges it solves, and the basics of how it works. This time, let’s focus on the method by which receivers signal their interest in multicast feeds. I’m intentionally skipping a few things Read more…
Basic Multicast Topology Since I’m knee-deep in preparing for my CLUS 2019 breakout, I figured I’d pull some double duty and post an update to my blog. Currently, I’m working on labbing some multicast scenarios and building a topology that will help teach most of the multicast solutions/features. Let’s take Read more…
Shortcut: DMVPN Demystified I don’t have a huge amount of time to blog these next few weeks, but I wanted to put something up that might interest people. Since leaving Advanced Services, I’ve been heavily focused on Cisco SD-WAN. I used to be a DMVPN guru in AS and helped Read more…
Credit for the slide below goes to Brad Edgeworth and Dustin Schuemann. All screenshots are my own. Now that we’ve covered the infrastructure of the Cisco SD-WAN solution, it’s time we start talking about how we plan our network deployments. For that, we need to leverage a newer, better version Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…