The value in taking both paths at once.

Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. We’ve gone through a whole series of phases, and now are emerging into the 4th generation of the technology. I’ve had the (good?) fortune to experience all of these at various points, and to design networks around the deployment of these, [...]

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Purple and Blue – Packeteer and BlueCoat

So there’s loads of stuff on the net about the upcoming merger between BlueCoat and Packeteer. I’m going to add my own 2p to the thoughts, as I think that this is a potentially large issue for users of Packetshaper, iShared and SkyX devices.

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State of the Network – a response

So Network Instruments new LinkedIn.CompanyInsiderPopup(“NI”,”Network Instruments”); have published their latest State of the Network report, and it makes for some worrying reading for network managers. The report is gathered from questionnaires answered by 592 network professionals, covering geographically diverse locations, with differing numbers of users. This time Network Instruments have concentrated on three elements, Time [...]

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Posted from the mobile

So as part of the new job I needed to get a new phone. Since I’m not a big fan of Microsoft Windows Mobile, I wanted something different as a platform. Since the only real extensible platform left is Symbian (especially since Palm has now a choice of platform, both Windows Mobile and PalmOS), I [...]

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Thinking around mobile access to data

I did a presentation on the Ipanema solution to members of the CMA (Communications Management Association) yesterday. The focus was on ensuring the voice and data quality on the network, but it got me thinking about a few other things related to the issue.

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