Dell Networking Campus Reference Architecture

whitepaper can be downloaded at:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20439122

Cornell University and SDN

Dell SonicWall TMG replacement solution with Kemp load balancer and ESP

http://www.exertisvad.co.uk/microsoft-forefront-tmg-replacement 

Art Fewell's New NetworkWorld Blog - Interview with JR Rivers - Please view and share!

 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2881984/cisco-subnet/cumulus-networks-ceo-jr-rivers-on-whats-hot-for-open-computing-in-2015.html

IT admins need to become Cloud admins.

The IT admin needs to be able to start a company from cloud resources and then at a point of scale they need to be able to bring that cloud technology on premises (private). 

'what do you really really want?' In the end it always turns into 'I want a big fat free bus'. So I want really high-capacity network. I want it (the network) to not get in my way.

Cumulus' perspective is moving the networking industry into that same evolved barrier of super high capacity interconnect, easy to deploy, easy to deploy at scale, works easily & is easy to acquire. Its kind of affordable capacity that's easy to get out there and that's what drives us in pretty much everything that we do.

m1000e midplane v1.1

Blade Chassis Midplane v1.1

M-Series technology transition from 10Gb XAUI to 10Gb KR - switches and mezz cards/LOMs must be the same type to talk to each other (i.e. all XAUI or all KR).

10GbE LOM/NDC (Fabric A) on M710HD is only supported with M1000e chassis shipped after January 2011.

Otherwise we would need to have end user check the Chassis Health tab of the CMC Web-based interface, GUI.

Lastly end user can look at the back chassis for fabric A and look for a square symbol below the A fabric. If the symbol is a triangle, then they have midplane 1.0. 

BSN - Big Switch Networks - Solutions for Big Tap and BCF - Big Cloud Fabric

Media Headlines:

·         Big Switch's BCF 2.5 now supported on Dell bare-metal switches – SearchSDN

·         Big Switch updates SDN controller options – NetworkWorld, IT World

·         Big Switch Networks Updates 'Bare-Metal' SDN Controller – Virtualization Review

·         Big Switch Adds Muscle to SDN Fabric – Light Reading

·         Big Switch Welcomes Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 – SDX Central

·         Big Switch Is Getting Bigger. Much Bigger. – MovingPackets.net

Currently putting together a solution for Big Tap. 

Single Controller solution with 94 10GbE SFP+ to identify and sort traffic.