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Networks Generation
An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking.
Recent Posts
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Can Too Much Of Something Be Bad?
- Broadband Testing 08 Mar 2018 -
WCaaP - Web Conferencing As A Platform?
- Broadband Testing 27 Feb 2018 -
Hold The Front Page: Common Sense Prevails In IT Security Shock!
- Broadband Testing 09 Jan 2018
Of course, the retail and consumer markets in general have been analysis bonkers for decades, but what about IT security, cyber or otherwise? It's not a case of collecting info from a single ...
Interesting, timing wise, because a lot of conversations recently with vendors have revealed how much discontent there is with the classic web conferencing tools, such as WebEx and GoToMeeting. ...
IT is overloaded with slick marketing terms that have little or no substance behind them – the classic “solution searching for a problem” scenario but… just occasionally the complete opposite prevails
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Load-Balancing Reinvented
- Broadband Testing 15 Nov 2017 -
No Hype With VoIP
- Broadband Testing 15 Nov 2017 -
Oldest Startups On The Block
- Broadband Testing 25 Sep 2017 -
Secure at the cloud - no, do it at the endpoint - Oh now, this is so confusing... Or is it?
- Broadband Testing 05 Jul 2016 -
Cloudy WiFi? Why Not?
- Broadband Testing 05 Jul 2016 -
Automation Ultimatum...
- Broadband Testing 25 Apr 2016 -
About the blog
20 Apr 2016
Like VoIP optimisation I've been blogging about recently, so I've been testing network (LAN and WAN in old money) optimisation solutions since the late '90s. The former, AKA Load-Balancing and ...
Logic dictates that end-to-end security must be allowed to exist free from intermediate back doors. The value of “legal intercept” and back doors needs to be considered from a systems point of ...
Got me thinking – just what IS a start-up company? Ok – so there are definitions within even Techtrailblazers itself as competitions are based upon rules, and rules dictate strict definitions, so ...
Security, for a decade or so, didn't see much in the way of true change - yes, firewalls got smarter, likewise AV products (well, some anyway), IDS became IPS so it could actually stop something ...
WiFi/WLAN is taken so much for granted nowadays, that it's easy to forget just how far it has come in recent years. Given that it took around 15 years to get from proprietary 1Mbps technologies to ...
IT - a job for life? Possibly... just finished a meeting with an old IT mate, Mike Silvey of Moogsoft, and we were talking about how all the recent networking reinvention bollox has basically ...
An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking.
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Testing The Testers...
- Broadband Testing 16 Mar 2016 -
What To Do With The Extra Monday?
- Broadband Testing 29 Feb 2016 -
It's A Software Defined Analytical World We Live In...
- Broadband Testing 15 Feb 2016 -
Acquisitions And Reinventions Continued...
- Broadband Testing 28 Oct 2015 -
Of Acquisitions And Integration
- Broadband Testing 17 Oct 2015
This week I have to host a panel debate on "stress testing cloud applications and infrastructure" at Netevents in Rome (I know - it's tough, but someone's got to do it...). One of the areas to ...
NetMan/Security vendor, and now part of the Thoma Bravo empire (watch out China!) SolarWinds, AKA SW, has sent us a timely reminder that this leap year has resulted in Feb having an extra Monday - ...
Having recently finished some testing with Cirba on its SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) approach to compute and storage resource management and app deployment, it's been interesting to be ...
Much of the talk on this blog recently has involved the world of acquisitions. And so it goes on. A recent meeting with Phil and Jim from the UK and US arms of Netscout respectively focused ...
The IT world has gone acquisition bonkers. Dell is paying as much for EMC as any football club would do to secure the combined services of Messi and Ronaldo. Well almost... Meantime, a couple of ...