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Indeed! This book is likely to be 100x more interesting than your local college's undergrad networks course. The dozen or so principles Varghese lays out for writing fast networkin…

Don't be too discouraged by job postings requiring an EE or CE degree. At my last two companies (a network gear vendor and a hosted VoIP provider), our postings stated EE/CE was pr…

I remember this lecture being useful when I was writing a stack machine for my compilers course: https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/62

If you are on a system that doesn't have tshark, tcpdump provides the same functionality via the -C -W flags. e.g. -C 100 -W 200 -w somefile will get you the same circular ring of …

Nothing sexual was implied by my comment, though I do see how the word is problematic. "Seminal" is so frequently used to describe early and influential bands in punk, including Ri…

The title is a reference to the song "Rebel Girl" by the seminal Riot Grrrl band Bikini Kill.

A great talk if you have 40 minutes to spare, here is a summary for those that don't: - the networking community has backed itself into a crufty transition that will involve a ton …

The trouble is, you'd have an easier time selling the scraps of your lunch than you would a home in Vegas. Condos that were going for $180K in my old neighborhood are now at $30K a…

While I don't argue with the title of the article - bandwidth caps really are just a way to deal with infrastructure costs by passing it on to some consumers - the use of IP transi…

Backbone capacity is not nearly as big of an issue, despite traffic growth. Long haul DWDM systems get denser, higher bit rate transponders get built, etc to push more bits across …

Whoever can pay to lease a conduit would have access to it, I'd imagine. The company that leases the conduit would be responsible for buying the glass, pulling it, and splicing it.…

I doubt that the conduit that would be installed would result in more ubiquitous wired broadband coverage or for higher speeds to existing wired broadband users. More likely, it wo…

This. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following areas where Cisco has fallen off or missed the boat in the last decade: optical transport, MetroE/mobile backhaul, carrie…

Definitely inaccurate, but how inaccurate is a bit cloudy. The NV gaming control board/gaming commission isn't exactly transparent when it comes to what the cash requirements are (…

Yep. Level3 more or less decided to start offering a CDN service without setting up an actual CDN. Or at least one that provides any benefit to Comcast (or as Comcast would argue, …