by Sajan Parikh | Apr 16, 2023 | IP Infusion, netElastic, vBNG
Having highly available layer-2 uplinks in a service provider has been around for a long time and there have been various ways to do it over the years, multi-chassis lag, stacking, active passive pseudowires, and more. If you use traditional VPLS and dual home a...
by Sajan Parikh | Feb 18, 2023 | IP Infusion
Multicast used to be the defacto standard for delivering IPTV and a lot of legacy IPTV systems are still fully based on multicast or require sending local channels via multicast to a large provider to get the stream back for unicast delivery to clients. This has only...
by Sajan Parikh | Jan 14, 2023 | IP Infusion, network operating systems
We recently did a webinar on alternatives to Juniper Network’s MX204 platform. While the MX204 was a fully capable router it was End Of Life’d and then recently the EOL was revoked after approximately a year. During the period before the end of life...
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 21, 2022 | Security Field Day, Tech Field Day
Cribl presented at Security Field Day 8 and while they look to have an awesome product for observability we’re going to look at something else, a refreshing way to provide training, resources, and product information. It became immediately apparent during their...
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 13, 2022 | IP Infusion, MikroTik, Uncategorized
One of the biggest misconceptions I had before moving into the service provider space was that all layer 2 operations had been replaced with layer 3. I quickly found out that even if you are routing everything there are still a lot of layer 2 overlays in place,...
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