By Phil
21 February 2008
11:59 am
Last week Tony Rybczynski put up a blog on the Cisco Nexus switch entitled "The Nexus is no Lexus". Tony got a lot of comments, including a link that was from the Network World Cisco blog. This was responded to on the Network World Cisco blog by Doug Gourley of Cisco. In his response Doug states; "Certainly companies that have consistently failed to innovate and deliver in the networking segment, that have married their own R&D capabilities so tightly to the merchant silicon vendors that they have no capability for competitive differentiation."
Cisco is well known for a profound inability to innovate internally and a penchant for acquisition as ...
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By Phil
13 December 2007
3:41 pm
In a posting a few while back I commented on the potential of Audio IM replacing Text IM. As one of the comments, David brought up a great point I had not thoroughly considered; is text better than audio/speech because of the bandwidth savings? Is it worth the speech to text and text to speech for bandwidth for the savings in network load, especially if we have to add emotion cues and we would lose the senders actual voice.
While I responded in the comments on that posting, I thought some of you might miss the thought process this stimulated and some of the resulting analysis. I have long maintained that ...
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By Phil
6 December 2007
12:17 pm
As I discussed in a previous set of blog postings, delivering redundancy is a critical path to assuring overall system availability. For a number of years, Nortel has deployed a patented implementation called Split Multi Link Trunking (SMLT) that uses the IEEE 802 standard in a configuration that is active-active with incredibly low switchover time. When compared with traditional techniques, such as spanning tree or routing, this technique has been judged vastly superior by both our customers and by independent testing organizations such as the Tolly Group. Nortel has deployed this technology for over six years to deliver effective Switch Clustering in a number of Ethernet Switching platforms. ...
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