by Nils Kubowitsch | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog
Deciphering Chipsets: A Broadcom Focus When network equipment vendors offer similar hardware at competing price points, and position these products to achieve specific technical goals, the best way to decipher a product’s potential is by learning about the...
by Nils Kubowitsch | Mar 7, 2023 | Blog
Modern Datacenter Network Architecture If you’re building a datacenter network today, you are most likely considering using a network topology such as spine and leaf, or an equivalent vendor-specific fabric technology such as Juniper QFabric, Arista Converged Cloud...
by Nils Kubowitsch | Feb 2, 2023 | Blog
BGP BGP and Juniper fight for king status. If you’re operating an internet-facing network, you’re likely familiar with BGP, the protocol designed by engineers on the back of three ketchup-stained paper napkins, and spoken (almost entirely unchanged) between internet...
by Nils Kubowitsch | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog
Rising global energy costs is a current hot topic, contributing in part to the same inflationary pressures that are playing out along supply chains, and ultimately leading to higher operational costs in the datacenter. .Many network operators and enterprises have...
by Nils Kubowitsch | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog
As an engineer or architect, the following situation will be familiar. It is time to build a newly negotiated point of presence or customer site, which means time to approach your OEM vendors and wrangle logistics, prepare for lengthy hardware lead times, diligently...
by Nils Kubowitsch | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog
The Strength Released in late 2017 and now end-of-life only five short years later, the Juniper MX204 has been a favourite of the MX lineup. As Juniper made lateral moves from the MX80 to the MX104, the MX204 was a huge shift in design to provide larger memory and...
