2017-05-03
Clarifying COS

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2017-02-14
Validation Methodology

By the way, few epic black books about network testing/validation methodology from Ixia.

Ixia Black Book - Video over IP
Ixia Black Book - Advanced MPLS
Ixia Black Book - QoS Validation

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2015-10-08
TaZmen Sniffer Protocol (TZSP)

TZSP comes from early times, embodied at Mikrotik RouterOS. Pretty good lowcost way to capture packets from remote site without direct L2 SPAN/RSPAN.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE MONITORING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

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2015-09-28
GGP, EGP and 25 years of BGP: a brief history of internet routing.

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2015-08-20
Deep inside Network Processor Architecture

Very interesting paper undercut about concepts of modern network hardware architecture and computation complexity of packet processing applications.

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2015-05-29
Mikrotik as RR

At the first look, RouterOS works fine as BGP router-reflector for vpnv4 and vpls. In other words, reliably,
we can use MikroTik Cloud Core Router CCR1016-12S-1S+($495.00) with 9 cores x 1.2GHz CPU and 2GB RAM as large ISP scale RR.

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2015-04-20
Extreme Summit X480 as carrier over carrier CE.

Shortly, doesn’t work cause BGP ipv4 label distribition isn’t supported. Also, vi-style policy editing is gothic, I think.

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2013-11-17
OpenFlow in RouterOS.

I’ve updated my home’s Mikrotik to 6.6 software and I see Openflow configuration context, I surprised, really surprised again.

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2013-10-30
Juniper MX104 Universal Edge Route

Juniper covers one more part of customer needs. In fact, there is MX80 with second RSP and additional MIC slots.

http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/routing/mx-series/mx104/

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2013-05-30
Juniper MX2000:bigga, we wanna bigga

The MX2000 line is the newest addition to the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Router portfolio offering the highest capacity, highest performance, and highest density, single-chassis Edge Routing platforms available today.

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