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• What Are Critical Network Problems?

  What are your critical network problems? Every network has them. They are the problems that cause network outages, or are the precursor to network outages. Most networks have similar designs and have similar critical network problems. I've heard network... Posted Jul 06 2011, 08:58 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: redundancy, config archive, reliability, performance

• Do You Conduct Network Failure Testing?

  At Enterprise Connect a few weeks ago, I contributed to the three-hour workshop on "QoS and Network Design for Converged Networks." The focus of my presentation was network design and resilient network infrastructure. What does it mean for a... Posted Mar 10 2011, 08:43 AM by tslattery with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: network testing, redundancy, resiliency, failure testing

• New Year Resolution: Run a Clean Network

  Welcome to the New Year - 2011! At the start of a new year, there is always talk of new year resolutions. You've seen them in magazines and newspapers: eat healthier food, loose weight, begin an exercise program, tackle the CCIE test, learn a new... Posted Jan 05 2011, 11:24 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: configuration update, redundancy, interface up/down, interface down, configuration change, HSRP, resilient networks, common problems, redundant interface

• Tracking Key Interface State

  The Baltimore-Washington area has been hit with several significant snow storms this winter and those storms have impacted the operations of a large metropolitan area network. Problems range from power outages at some sites to link problems between sites... Posted Mar 01 2010, 01:58 PM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: high availability, Featured, redundancy, interface down

• High Availability Networking (>5-nines)

  One of the best sessions I attended at CiscoLive this year was titled "BRKRST-3365, Unified HA Network Design: The Evolution of the Next Generation Network" by John Cavanaugh, Chris Cornwall, and a whole team of contributors. They talked about... Posted Aug 17 2009, 01:28 PM by tslattery with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: high availability, Featured, failure domains, redundancy, spanning tree