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Who is Watching the Watcher?

By Patrick Hunter – The monitoring of all of our devices, systems, applications, and other critical pieces of our networks has long been an important part of keeping everything running smoothly and, hopefully, without impact to the customer.

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IPv6 Adoption: Slower than You’d Think

By Patrick Hunter – The impact to applications, it is also important to bear in mind that many application administrators expect or require that IPv6 function in exactly the same manner as IPv4 has functioned for decades.

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InfoSec: No Kiddie Pool — More Like the Atlantic Ocean

By Patrick Hunter – Ensuring it is not mangled or mishandled while also ensuring that the people who need it can get to it is also critical. That is the ultimate goal of information security: keeping the promise of protecting the data, keeping it intact, and getting it to those who need it reliably.

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Weathering the Storm Redundancy is key

By Patrick Hunter – Suffice it to say, when your leadership comes to you and says “This *stuff* can’t go down!”, make sure to consider all of the factors involved when designing an end-to-end solution so you don’t have to catch a bunch of…um…stuff from your boss.

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Electrical Transmission of 10G

By Patrick Hunter – The PMA sublayer essentially combines the messages from the above PCS service interface and provides full duplex communications at 800 mega-symbols (Msymbols) per second over the copper twisted pair cabling.

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Challenges of Managing IP Networks

By Patrick Hunter — Our conversations these days have continued to drift to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE). Certainly these terms are adorable, and the best part is we get to continue to feed our irrational obsession with abbreviations.

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Never Say Never

By Patrick Hunter — Our conversations these days have continued to drift to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE). Certainly these terms are adorable, and the best part is we get to continue to feed our irrational obsession with abbreviations.

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