When Cisco launched the Insieme product line last fall, it said it had an aggressive migration program on tap for customers of its 15-year-old Catalyst 6500 to the new Nexus 9000 data center switches.

In last week's blog about our new DC network based on the Nexus switch line, I introduced you to Kamal Vyas, the lead network engineer on my team. Kamal returns this week with another blog on our DC ...

Our project intends to evaluate and compare the performances of STP and RSTP on Cisco switches supported by OPNET. We were planning to do the comparison of STP with more other types such as Multiple ...

Dealt with quite a little clusterf*** today with TimeWarner Cable on their "business" side. We brought up an NNI with them on Friday and I had someone at a customer site trying to turn up our first ...

I've got a bit of a network redesign going on soon and i'm trying to work out what's the best way to structure this thing.<BR><BR>We've got 14 2924XL's - 4 are core switches (i.e. they've got gigE ...