Welcome to my blog!

I have been planning, designing, building, implementing, analyzing, operating, and supporting networks since 1996. Not to mention the things they glue together. I have worked for networking vendors, been a customer of networking vendors, and delivered professional services to customers of networking vendors. I am CCIE #11857 and rubbed shoulders with Milton Friedman apologists while earning my MBA at Chicago Booth. (I personally subscribe to the Richard Thaler libertarian paternalism school of thought, better known as Nudging.)

With this varied background, occasionally I feel the need for an outlet when I sense déjà vu in the networking industry or process an acquisition announcement or learn about a cool new feature or something along those lines. Hence I’ve started this blog.

I hope you find my musings interesting, informative, and perhaps even helpful. I look forward to discussing topics related to LANs, WANs, SDNs, Data Centers, IPv6, and yes, even Cloud. Moreover, I will try to make it more than just about the technology.

And in case you were wondering, No, my next post will not be entitled SYN-ACK. Unless there has been a man-in-the-middle attack.

— Umair Hoodbhoy