Thankfully, in the opinion of yours truly, it appears that new Juniper Networks Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer - Lauren Flaherty has given the boot to Juniper's humorous but creepy ad cartoons. The ads ran for an unusually long time, for the past five years. Although I personal...

Earlier this week, yours truly enjoyed a free online Hulu.com movie titled: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project . In the movie, even a one-legged dog missing an ear and going by the name of "Lucky" would be considered fair game for being the butt of a joke by famous insult comic - Don Rickles . That...

A Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP ) Autonomous System ( AS ) is identified by a number in the range 1 to 65535. AS numbers in the range 1 to 64511 are assigned by InterNIC . These are reserved and globally unique AS numbers. AS numbers in the range 64512 to 65535 are known as private AS numbers , and ...

Yours truly was fortunate to exchange email messages between Aruba and Cisco regarding the announcement of the new Cisco Mobile Vision . In the email correspondence published below, Aruba scoffs at the Cisco announcement calling it markitecture . Cisco lunges back with how the Aruba argument complet...

It is pure speculation by yours truly, but nonetheless quite intriguing that HP's acquisition of EDS could in fact be the cause of John McHugh leaving as vice president and worldwide general manager of HP ProCurve . In HP's June 6th, 2008 Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,...

In a very interesting Q & A session with Cisco CEO - John Chambers: Up Close & Personal A featured article on pages 94 and 95 of synnovation magazine published by EDS, Chambers was asked: What magazines do you read? Chambers: I read a variety of magazines, both hard copy and online, from For...

An interesting question and answer session with the ex-Cisco stars who have launched the very hottest enterprise mobility start-up, Tim Olson - Cofounder and Chief Technical Officer of Agito Networks as well as Pejman Roshan - Cofounder and Vice President of Marketing of Agito Networks . How did you...

Earlier this week Computerworld had an interesting article that caught my attention: Opinion: The 10 secrets of bad CIOs "In my decade as a CIO, I've seen a lot of turnover in the IT industry," said John Halamka - CIO of CareGroup Health System and Harvard Medical School. "Each time I hear about a C...

Recently, a Texas based Cisco Premier Certified Partner - Thomas Technologies , changed their allegiance to Cisco competitor - trixbox , in order to better serve their small business IP telephony customers. "We’re increasingly working with resellers who are walking away from their established vend...

From time to time one hears of companies spending big bucks on a network management solution (aka NMS). Hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars spent on a network management system that often fails to get fully deployed. Perhaps asking a few questions in the selection process would have b...