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 ...

Cisco predicts that global IP traffic will reach over half a trillion gigbytes -- or 250 billion DVDs -- in the next four years. Reaching half a zettabyte by 2012 represents a sixfold increase from 2007, and is driven by video and social networking, Cisco claims. Cisco's data comes from it...

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,...

  You may have a server (i.e. a server that sits in the DMZ) that you want to really lock down and protect the contents of the server's hard drives including items that we don't necessarily assume are at risk such as the paging files, applications, and data used by applications.   Windows...

So, it appears that the popular trend for IT is to "go green." Hardware that consumes less resources, in a smaller space, seems to be the future. With this comes the ever-popular topic of virtualization. Virtualization in the telephony environment isn't as simple as it's application server counterpa...

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...

Gnash certainly hopes so. Gnash is an open source Flash player, being developed under the GPL. Currently available only for Linux versions such as embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, they’re working on a Windows port. They recently made it to Verison 0.8.2, which they are calling...