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i’ve just stumbled upon this gem - it’s hard to find these days such well aggregated and summarized information.

as you probably know already, next, jubilee edition of PLNOG is just around the corner. apart from stand and presentations, we’re be there with extended team to discuss our new products and solutions. and traditionally, we’ll also conduct couple of workshops for people interested in Cisco solutions: Advanced BGP workshops Deploying IPv6 MPLS basics one novelty we’ll offer is first of a kind offering in Poland - service provider design workshop. we’ll deliver it together with Piotr Jabłoński, experienced Cisco Advanced Services consultant. given you’ll be there for PLNOG - it’s good opportunity to get some additional perspective on technologies and discuss your experiences as well. we’ll go way above just delivering slides or implementing configurations - sharing with you real-life experiences from projects in Poland and abroad. ...

i’ve stumbled upon an article of Michael Leonard from Juniper. he decided to take a stab at LISP. i usually call such articles with the title of this post, and the article mentioned is all about it. while we’re discussing in open forums with engineers and architects from Juniper, and in most of them we actually do cooperate - including in LISP, which author doesn’t seem to even know about - it’s sad to look at people who believe attacking competition is everything they should do in life. his comments are misguided, and willingness to be visible sad. it also doesn’t show juniper as a company in good light. ...

it seems that EU has made a reasonable choice to oppose ITU’s taking control over internet. consequences of handing over real control over future of internet to entity that’s slowly sliding into oblivion and has hardly any real influence on the development of technology are not hard to imagine.

amazing sweet photo. you can watch this until you drop dead, looking for all details. and this landscape in the background…

if you haven’t noticed by now, in the IOS 15M line we introduced IOS shell. firing it up is just as easy as doing: C2#conf t C2(config)#shell processing full now you have new, UNIX-like commands and options to chain them, including nested grep. C2#sh running-config | wc -l 163 C2#sh running-config | grep ip | grep 2001 ipv6 address 2001:DB8:10::10:254/64 ipv6 route ::/0 2001:DB8:10::10:1 if you by now are fun of such capabilities, having been working with IOS XR - it’s a nice touch :) ...

we’re back with Cisco security focused conference in the fall. during Cisco SECURE 2012 we’ll try to demonstrate you the whole security architecture. during two full days of presentations, we’ll try to showcase you all interesting bits and pieces from our portfolio. we already have agenda up, and i’ll be happy to present along Gaweł our security solutions for cloud and data centers - including CSR 1000v, ASAv and other interesting products. ...

…how tightly coupled should it be? i can’t help to think about it. i’m writing this post on construction that was defended to his last days by Steve Jobs. according to his belief, only software tightly integrated with software can be effective and predictable. independently of what Steve believed, there are other examples of such thinking in the world. let’s take for an example company i work for - Cisco. most of our solutions are based on software integrated with hardware without ability to add questionable “apps” to the mix. only then vendor can claim predictability, and so it happens across the whole market of network devices (and not only them). ...

very interesting experiment (it’s worth looking other from the series!). it basically shows how people react to very tricky move while walking freely on the street. i bet in Poland the behavior observed would be different… or maybe i’m wrong? will you try? :) (by the way, can you point to movie from which title of this post comes from without looking at google?)

i highly recommend this article from Wired. while we have to live with situation where such wealthy people like Kaspersky himself can influence ITU decisions, we still can stand up and work to make internet free and independent. it’s kind of naive of course, but consequences of having too much money and power - frighten me again every day.