
When sales gets their hands on a cloud-enabled slide pack

When sales gets their hands on a cloud-enabled slide pack

The Comcast Time Warner Cable merger

When talking about Intra-domain BGP Scaling issues

When Big Cable states they “remain committed to an open internet”

RFC1918 collisions after mergers and acquisitions

Seeing members of the community argue with each other on the RIR mailing lists

Discovering the real DWDM topology during maintenance

Carving TCAM memory

When someone pitches layer 3 ACLs on layer 2 platform

When you see the interface come up again after maintenance

When your co-worker tells you he leaked the fake /8 paths used for traffic engineering to peers at the exchange

When at a birthday a family member asks why their Netflix is constantly buffering

RFP requirements for the vendor you don’t want to buy from

The world’s reaction to Comcast complaining about networks’ “dumping” of traffic on them

When Big Telco pushes their agenda through the regulator

Assessing the state of corporate VPN clients anno 2014

Hastily upgrading all network equipment after the flood of SSL security advisories

When customer makes enquiries about the "human error" paragraph in the RFO

PE with partial table

OH: “we should go IPv6-only, it’s low hanging fruit”

Writing the risk assessment report when you need more budget

MTU negotiation

Initial reaction to the software’s release notes

When a peer approaches your customer at NANOG

GPF Meeting Tool

When you talk to somebody knowledgeable at the vendor’s TAC

Vendors competing with their SDN portfolio

Independent testing commissioned by the competitor

Explaining cold-standby to customer

Junior NOC monkey trying to make sense of inter-VRF routing policy