NETWORKING

The Month of August is significant to me as it marks my anniversary date of joining Cisco. And this year, I crossed the threshold of 25 years of employment with Cisco. Some may wonder why I would stay at the same company for many years. It is simple, and Cisco is a company that strives to be the best environment for its employees. For many years, Cisco has been rated as the best place to…

You’re a Python aficionado. Want to build a Python AXL administration and configuration app with a GUI? Have I got the solution for you. No, it’s not Tkinter or wxWidgets, which is based on the Gimp Toolkit (GTK). We’re talking Qt, one of the most popular frameworks for multiple platforms. wxWidgets has similar features, but I’ve never been a fan of GTK. Why not just build an app with a web interface? Good question. Way…

Cisco Blogs / Innovation / Design Thinking and Visual Storytelling: New Trainings for Cisco Partners This post was written together with Andrew Krueger, Business Architecture Global Program Lead. The third stage of Cisco’s Business Architecture (BA) Training was first introduced to partners in 2016. It was later retired to undergo a complete rewrite: the objective was to integrate Cisco’s latest tools and methodologies practiced by Business Architects globally. We have now run the new class…

Australia has incredible talent across academia and industry, and one of my great career passions has been working with others to realise their combined potential. The National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN), a rapidly growing alliance between Australian universities and industry is, I believe, the embodiment of that potential. With the NIIN’s goal to realise digital opportunities that can benefit the lives of all Australians, it’s a working example of the whole being greater than the…

Following up on my last blog post where I explored the basics of the Linux ‘ip’ command, I’m back with a topic that I’ve found both interesting and a source of confusion for many people: container networking. Specifically, Docker container networking. I knew as soon as I decided on container networking for my next topic that there is far too much material to cover in a single blog post. I’d need to scope the content…

Covid has accelerated adoption of modern collaboration services by the public sector. While the switch to cloud provides a variety of benefits for hybrid work, it also raises concerns about exposing sensitive information that can be included in documents, whiteboards, meeting recordings, rosters, and attendee information used in collaboration. Global governments, Defense, and critical national infrastructure entities, as well as other regulated organizations, need to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of their citizens and…

First, let me say how we take notes and what tools we use are admittedly a personal preference and decision. Hopefully, we are doing it, however! Most of us are creatures of habit and comfort – we want it simple and effective. When we put that developer hat on as part of our DevOps/SRE or AppDev roles it’s optimal when we can combine our code development environment, or IDE, with a tool that we take…

AWS says its private 5G managed service is now available – however, it currently only supports 4G LTE and doesn’t yet support 5G. With AWS Private 5G, which was previewed last November, customers will be able to specify where they want to build a mobile network and its capacity, and AWS will deliver and maintain the small-cell radio units, servers, 5G-core and RAN software, and SIM cards. The idea is to let enterprises quickly procure,…

Following up on my last blog post where I explored the basics of the Linux ‘ip’ command, I’m back with a topic that I’ve found both interesting and a source of confusion for many people: container networking. Specifically, Docker container networking. I knew as soon as I decided on container networking for my next topic that there is far too much material to cover in a single blog post. I’d need to scope the content…

OK, you’re a CIO and when you go down to the data center, you see racks of routers, each with a maze of cabling.  When you hear “virtual routers” you think of all of that gone, replaced by mystical router instances floating about somewhere in the ether, and you smile. Or you’re a CFO who gets a bill for hundreds of branch routers, each picking your pocket on service charges and maybe software licenses.  You…