I recently gave a presentation to the New Zealand Network Operators Group (NZNOG) 2011 conference on “Data Centre 3.0”. During my research over the last 8 months coupled with the fact checking I had been following up during the creation of the slides, I kept asking myself: “Would we need all these protocols if we,...

The Intro One of the things I do regularly for my clients is to build LNS Infrastructure to take wholesale L2TP handoff. It is not uncommon to take these handoffs from several suppliers covering technologies such as DSL, Dialup ports, Wireless, 3G etc. Wholesale pricing in Australia means that it is not unreasonable to take...

As you may have heard, Juniper has been shaking up their certification program – and all I can say is “It’s for the better!”. In an effort to consolidate the disparate certification tracks (which were previously product based), they have moved towards being more centered around the market segments (and by extension the careers of...

I had a “peaceful” weekend pretending to study for my upcoming CCDA exam in a couple weeks. Trying to convince myself that I cared, I decided the best course of action was to watch a movie! Sounds reasonable, right? I’ve been working my way back through Kevin Smith’s movies over the last couple of nights,...

In my previous blog post about Juniper Training, I discussed how Juniper Firewall Filters were quite interesting and new to me because I have been using SRX since I started with Juniper equipment 12 months ago. Robert Juric (@robertjuric) has written two really good blog posts about this topic that provides a really good overview...

Living in Australia, I have gotten used to hearing about “once in a lifetime opportunities” and expecting they will always be on the other side of the world. This is a nice way of protecting myself from the inevitable disappointment that follows… BUT NOT TODAY! The news is out that Emmanuel Conde from CCIE Flyer...

As a Network Janitor, I spend a lot of time mopping up other peoples mess!  When called in for a consulting job, it doesnt pay to be a vendor bigot. This is why we decided that staff at my company would need to get trained in the key vendors in the networking space. We identified...

If you follow my @networkjanitor twitter feed than you may know that I spent 3 days last week in training provided by Juniper and the local distributer Avnet. In the old tradition of “free training for channel partners”, I signed up for “Junos Routing Essentials (JRE)” and “Junos for Security Platforms”. There was an “Introduction...

Im currently working on my plan of attack on the CCIE R&S and I need some advice. I finally finished my CCNP in June after years of putting it off (I first got my CCNA in 2001!), and now I am trying to determine the best course of action moving forward. So far my plan...

During my research into the new world of storage network and all the wonders contained within, I stumbled across a really great podcast – The Packet Pushers Podcast! I think the tagline of the series says it all for me “Where too MUCH networking is NEVER enough”. Now I’m a network geek and this has...