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October 09, 2019
Juniper’s MX240: Choosing an MX Starter Home We’ve been talking up Juniper’s QFX series lately, because it’s a great fixed switch with some useful options in a 1RU platform. With the right licenses you can turn a QFX into a pretty good entry-level router, but those licenses...
September 23, 2019
Using Breakout Cables You’ve been building out your network for years, brick by rack unit brick, cold aisle hot aisle, 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G. Sometimes you can plan and budget, get it right from the start, and sometimes you’re putting it together the best you can. You’ve got trunks...
September 12, 2019
Selecting the Right Juniper MX Routing Engine (RE) Doesn't Have to Be a Complex Decision With so many Juniper routing engine (RE) choices available today, finding the right fit for your MX Series router might seem difficult. Actually, it’s pretty simple. Within reason, buy the most...
September 09, 2019
Never Underestimate the Importance of a Cold Spare…or Two We’ve all been there — screaming at a lifeless network part while continually restarting it in hopes of a miraculous technological resurrection. And while it’s one thing to have a component fail on a desktop or...
August 26, 2019
Whatever Happened to Brocade? Much like the once-popular mall arcade that practically disappeared from our generational purview overnight, Brocade’s rearrangement two years ago left many of us scratching our heads and wondering: What the heck happened to a lot of their equipment and where do...
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August 22, 2019
Spine and Leaf Architecture, or The Bionic Network I’m gonna save you the trouble. I made the mistake of watching The Six Million Dollar Man again recently, and with the exception of Lee Majors swaggering out in a red jumpsuit to do some (ultimately failed) astronauting, the show is...