The EVPN-VXLAN Tunnel of Love Part 3: Meet My Lovely Assistant
In our last episode, we saw just how easy it was to cast a little spell with some “point-and-click” magic and have AmpCon turn some Jinja-ly auto-magically populated Jinja code into Wizard-driven menus, with your newly found Pica8 Wizardry skills. Well….now it’s time to do what all great and…
Pica8 Zero Touch Provisioning for Bare Metal Switches in Remote Branches
This blog gives an overview of Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), how to setup
Cisco’s Very Big Conservation of Complexity Problem
Of all the tools in its ginormous account-control arsenal, Cisco holds solution “complexity” near and dear to its heart. Since its earliest days, Cisco has weaponized product complexity and applied it to pretty much everything from product design, to sales, and even to service and support. Examples…
Days of Cisco Past (1989) – a New Hope
Having clearly reached that “Get Off My Lawn!” stage of a 30+ year career in networking, over the next couple of months I’ve decided to share some unfiltered “insider” observations about how Cisco turned from its late 80’s IBM-killer roots, with its well-earned reputation as the liberator of…