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Post Views: 1,494 Moore’s Law is an observation made by Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, in 1965. He noted that: The number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years, while the cost of computers is halved. This effectively meant exponential growth in computing power and a decrease in relative cost over […]
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Post Views: 1,010 Ever wonder what it takes to network an industry showcase like ShowNet? ShowNet is a large-scale demonstration network built annually since 1994. It showcases cutting-edge networking technologies and provides stable internet connectivity throughout the exhibition floor. Over 400 engineers from academia and industry collaborate to design, deploy, and operate this network, utilizing
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Post Views: 2,264 Teaching hexadecimal and binary, especially around bits, nibbles, and bytes, is an awesome way to introduce kids to how computers “think.” Let’s face it their world is fully computerized and networked. All communications is done in binary, bits, nibbles, and bytes. Heck, its the way computers think. Here is a deeper dive
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Post Views: 4,395 Teaching kids about networking (the digital kind, not social networking) can actually be a lot of fun if you break it down into simple, relatable concepts and use interactive activities. I have written other articles like teaching kids programming and teaching kids electricity. Here I want to talk about networking. Here’s a
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Post Views: 1,649 I previously posted an article on teaching kids electricity with Squishy Circuits, as well as teaching kids about networks/networking, and someone asked what about programming. Great question. Back in the day (2005) there was a special computer (the XO) you could buy that was tuned to kids learning programming. It was called
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Post Views: 3,648 As a follow on to my article on whether AI can be used in Networking, this post dives in deeper to a question of will humans still be involved? And if so, how do we upskill that human expertise? To successfully integrate AI into network automation while ensuring human expertise is maintained,
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Post Views: 2,180 Cisco had a free self paced, online learning course – until March 24th, 2025! I don’t know if it is still available – I think they are charging now. The course is called: AI Solutions on Cisco Infrastructure Essentials | DCAIE. Learn about the essentials of deploying, migrating, and operating AI solutions on Cisco
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Post Views: 1,890 Before I provide the example, let’s be straight up about AI. Relying on AI for everything is problematic because it diminishes human critical thinking, introduces biases, and creates dependency on automation that may not always be reliable. While AI excels at processing vast amounts of data and automating tasks, it lacks intuition,
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Post Views: 1,907 As a hands-on technical author and instructor, I have been wondering if AI could possibly replace me. OK, perhaps not replace me, but instead enhance the training I have been providing for decades. I have discussed this with a number of others both on the instructional side and on the student side.
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Post Views: 1,735 A recent discussion with several colleagues led to a discussion on how AI can be leveraged in the world of internetworking. With all the hype around AI, some pretty crazy things are being claimed by vendors, but looking under the surface requires specific solutions and, frankly, things become very vendor specific very
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Post Views: 8,551 I get asked for this list all the time, so I thought I would just post it. There are others of course, so see the bottom of this post for some others, but if I had to just pick 10, these would be the ones. Links below will send you to Amazon,
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Post Views: 2,360 Whether you are performing preventive maintenance or repairing routers or switches or any other network equipment, you need a solid toolkit to easily perform the task. First, let me list for you what I have in my service/repair toolkit. These items are mostly available at Amazon, of course, and if you click
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Post Views: 1,626 Looking for some ideas for what to gift someone in the tech/networking field? Here are some, but don’t forget – we have two other places to get things: our Wi-Fi Adapters that support monitor mode article and our “Go Bag” page. The links to the products shown here are all available through
Post Views: 3,943 I understand the argument: Since there is so much TCP (HTTP anything, etc. etc.) this is what the user experiences. That argument has several issues. First, we need to discuss the problems with using TCP at all as there are technical reasons the idea does not align with the goal of speed
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Post Views: 3,797 When you run a speed test, you are testing several key aspects of your internet connection. The purpose is to measure the performance of your connection to the internet in terms of download speed, upload speed, latency or delay, and jitter or delay variation. The problem is that not all speed tests
What does an Internet Speed Test actually test? Read More »
