Imagine one day your boss comes to you wanting to provide Internet access for a tenant in a distant building location that … [Read more...]
Time Warner Cable Ubee Modem: Auto-Negotiation Failure Results in Poor Internet Performance
5 October 2012 by 12 Comments
Last week, I visited a client to test their Internet speed. The company is paying for a 35Mb/s down and a 5Mb/s upload speed. … [Read more...]
In the Lab: Review a Few IPv6 Routing Protocols and Encapsulating v6 in v4
14 September 2012 by 1 Comment
I have pseudo-learned and forgotten some IPv6 mechanics over the past couple of years. I have re-visited this cycle recently, … [Read more...]
Pushing Packets the Last Mile
28 August 2012 by 8 Comments
"The "last mile" or "last kilometer" is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a … [Read more...]
When IT Is Like Children’s Soccer
19 June 2012 by 4 Comments
When I first starting working in IT more than a decade ago, I noticed an odd phenomenon. At the time, I worked at a major EDU … [Read more...]
Using L2TPv3 for Layer 3 VPNs
27 February 2012 by 1 Comment
Deploying L3VPNs using MPLS is common in service provider and—more recently—in enterprise environments. While not as … [Read more...]
Packet Over SONET: Good for Nothin’?
4 November 2011 by 13 Comments
Here's a question: who uses Packet-Over-SONET interfaces and why the heck would you ever want to do that? At first glance, … [Read more...]
Extending Private Networks Into Your DataCenter
15 September 2011 by 2 Comments
So you have customers out in the world that have private networks. Most of them have some kind of private VPN service from … [Read more...]
Internet-as-a-Service in an MPLS Cloud
4 September 2011 by 4 Comments
In this post we will look at an "Internet-as-a-Service" type solution in an MPLS infrastructure. This is an all Juniper … [Read more...]
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