Podcast: Atheral, VOIP and communication “stuff”

Recently I sat down and did a podcast with Daniel White of Atheral (https://atheral.co/). We talked about how WISPS can use VOIP to prevent overbuilding, Unified communications, and some of the forms and procedures for getting started with VOIP. If …

400 Gigabit randomness

What is the Form Factor for 400G optics? • The first is OSFP  OSFP stands for “Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable”. The electrical interface of an OSFP connector consists of 8 electrical lanes, running at 50Gb/s each, for a total of …

AS Stats using sFlow/NetFlow

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VXLAN terminology and what it means

What are some of the various terminology used in VXLAN? VNI/VNID: Virtual Network Identifier or VXLAN Network Identifier Layer2 VNI carried in VXLAN bridged packets. VNI is configured per VLAN. Layer3 VNI carried in VXLAN routed packets across VTEPs. One L3 …

China proposes replacement to TCP/IP

China’s “New IP” proposal to replace TCP/IP has a built in “shut up command” for censorship   The Chinese government and the Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei under its control are proposing a “New IP” addressing system for the …