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Jason Gintert

@bitsinflight.com
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Network guy who is into bands and stuff. President of the @usnua.com | #NFD & #CFD Delegate | linktr.ee/bitsinflight

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Generator Labs @generatorlabs.com · 23/09/2026
For Unbound: trust-anchor-file is static and never learns 38696 on its own. auto-trust-anchor-file does, via RFC 5011, but needs write access to the file and its directory, so check resolvers running from read-only mounts or container images.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 23/09/2026
David Huberman from ICANN shared at #ABQNOG that the DNS root KSK rollover is October 11. Running a DNSSEC-validating resolver? Confirm KSK-2024 (key tag 38696) is in your trust anchors if not, every query SERVFAILs. Not the DNS gal or guy? Pass this along! www.icann.org/resources/pa...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 15/09/2026
Everyone is obsessing over building giant gigawatt AI data centers, but the future of inference could actually be sitting inside old telecom central offices. 🏢⚡️ New blog post here: www.bitsinflight.com/ai-inference...
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AI Inference Doesn't Need New Data Centers
Training does. Inference can live in buildings we already have.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 14/09/2026
Total blast to join @scottrobohn.bsky.social! Give it a listen.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 05/05/2026
Every network engineer has a telecom procurement horror story. Lightyear showed up at #NFD40 and made a case to fix it. Their "Telecom Operating System" covers procurement, inventory and expense management, all in one tidy SaaS bitsinflight.com/lightyear-nfd40-buying-bandwidth/
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Lightyear @ NFD40: Buying Bandwidth Shouldn't Suck
Every network engineer has a telecom horror story. Lightyear's Telecom Operating System is trying to fix that with software that automates the full telecom lifecycle.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 26/04/2026
@AristaNetworks's #NFD40 session gave us a very useful AI networking framework. Check out what they are doing with Networking for AI including Ethernet Scale Up Networking (ESUN), Extra-Dense Pluggable Optics (XPO) and more in my new blog: bitsinflight.com/arista-nfd40-modern-fabrics-for-ai/
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Arista @ NFD40: Modern Fabrics for AI
AI networking, much like everything else in the space, is developing very quickly and has what feels like a new acronym per day. Between UEC, ESUN, NCCL and a bunch of other protocols/technologies, it...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 09/04/2026
Here we go with Upscale AI! #NFD40: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMTh...
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🔴 Watch LIVE: Upscale AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 #NFD40 #TFDLive
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 09/04/2026
Getting an education on XPO optics from Vijay Vusirikala from Arista Networks. This density is insane! #NFD40
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 09/04/2026
Have heard a lot from all the vendors building networking for AI at #NFD40. Brendan from Arista Networks is doing a great job of breaking down the different architectures and the Arista differentiators.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 09/04/2026
Here we go! Tune in to see what Arista Networks is up to, we start in about 5 minutes (4/9 8a PT) #NFD40 techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/
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Networking Field Day 40 - Tech Field Day
Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at techfieldday.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.
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Tech Field Day Podcast @techfielddaypod.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
LLMs and AI are Processing Data Telemetry Overnight 📊 🧠 Jason Gintert talks about a powerful use case for LLMs in network operations: overnight data processing. #TFDPodcast #NFD40 #Networking #LLMs #DataTelemetry #DataProcessing #NetworkData
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 08/04/2026
A couple of Nokia Validated Designs (NVD) shared with us today at #NFD40.
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PackITForwarding.com @ntwrk80.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's interesting how @nokia.bsky.social is positioning their validated design guides as a product that gets a support life and that gets yearly updates. That's a far cry from many vendors that create a validated design and then ignore it for a decade. #nfd40
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 08/04/2026
#NFD40 starts at 8a PT! Tune in here: techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/
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Networking Field Day 40 - Tech Field Day
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 08/04/2026
Guess who is in San Jose for #NFD40? This guy ✋ See presenters and presentation times here: techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/ To stream the event live, watch here: youtube.com/@techfieldday Or at the main event page above. Use #NFD40 to ask any questions you have of the presenters. So stoked!
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 07/04/2026
Had a blast joining @pjwelcher.bsky.social, @scottrobohn.bsky.social & @networkingnerd.net on this @techfieldday.com podcast. What are the biggest challenge you encounter when dealing with network telemetry in your network? 🤔
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 03/04/2026
Join us next week for #NFD40! Super stoked to be a delegate again and this is a killer one. Don't miss it!
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 25/03/2026
Your network isn't a collection of parts, it's a whole system and your "simple" changes prove it every time something breaks somewhere you didn't expect. David Bohm meets network engineering. www.bitsinflight.com/the-network-...
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The Network as a Whole
In 1980, a quantum physicist named David Bohm published a book that had absolutely nothing to do with network engineering. Wholeness and the Implicate Order argued that reality isn't a collection of ...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 09/02/2026
Stoked to be a delegate again for #NFD40! Tune in April 8–April 10, 2026 to see presentations. Help us delegates ask the tough questions about their announcements. Use #NFD40 day of on your social platform of choice and we'll get your questions asked. techfieldday.com/event/nfd40/
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Networking Field Day 40 - Tech Field Day
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 13/01/2026
Heading to NANOG96 in a few weeks? Let’s connect! DM me to coordinate a meetup. Should be a good one! nanog.org/events/nanog... #NANOG96
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NANOG 96
NANOG is the professional association for Internet engineering, architecture and operations.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 11/12/2025
Network automation: $15B now, $30B by 2028. #Autocon4 showed the industry has grown up. Proven ROI, real frameworks and honest talk about what's actually holding teams back. The tech works. Now it's psychology. bitsinflight.com/autocon4-network-automation-gets-all-grown-up/
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Autocon4: Network Automation Gets All Grown Up
The network automation market hit $15 billion this year. It'll double to $30 billion by 2028. Those numbers would've seemed absurd a decade ago when we were still arguing whether using Ansible and Pyt...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 10/12/2025
This is pretty big news and likely cements MCP as the open standard for integrating data with AI. www.anthropic.com/news/donatin...
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Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 21/11/2025
Got my brand spankin new #Autocon challenge coin! It got an upgrade, this guy is thick. I just can't put into words how much I enjoy this conference. The community that rallies around this organization, event and mission is remarkable. #networkautomationforum #autocon4
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 17/11/2025
Hoping to get another one of these babies this week! Also anticipating some amazing presentations and conversations. Anyone else going to Network Automation Forum’s #Autocon4 in Austin?! If so, let’s meet up! Send a DM and we’ll connect. I’m attending Weds-Fri and am so excited.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 10/11/2025
Tech layoffs making this piece from earlier this year hit different. Key lesson: Every opportunity for me came through helping others without keeping score. Your real network isn't your follower count, it's the people you've actually helped along the way. www.bitsinflight.com/lessons-from...
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Lessons from a Network Engineering Journey
The year 2025 marks my 26th in data networking as a profession and over 30 years since I started experimenting with networks. As I find myself between engagements, I've had time to reflect on where…
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 27/10/2025
I've spent a few months building AI integrations for network monitoring systems and learned a thing or two that I share here. If you're a network engineer wondering about your career trajectory in an AI world, you might want to check this out. www.bitsinflight.com/ai-wont-repl... #Networking #AI
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AI Won't Replace Network Engineers
After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers that integrate with select systems, I've gotten very familiar with what GenAI can and can't do for network troubleshooting.…
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 07/10/2025
I'd argue that AI isn’t just the future of networking, it’s the present. We’re already seeing production systems that let you interact with a network in plain English, across tools and vendors, without logging into a dozen dashboards. Read here: www.laketec.com/2025/09/16/a...
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Applying AI to Networking | Laketec Insights
Discover how Laketec applies AI to networking, enhancing performance, security and efficiency in modern IT environments.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 06/10/2025
I'm wondering if we are going to have an announcement from Palo Alto Networks regarding a new zero day exploit for Global Protect? Has anyone else noticed an impact to their Global Protect infrastructure? thehackernews.com/2025/10/scan...
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Scanning Activity on Palo Alto Networks Portals Jump 500% in One Day
GreyNoise detects 500% spike in Palo Alto login scans, linking it to recent Cisco ASA exploit trends.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 06/10/2025
Today's soundtrack: Cloakroom's Dissolution Wave 🎵 This album has owned my ears for 3 years straight and I'm still not tired of it. If you're new to Cloakroom, start with "Dissembler" from this album. What's in your rotation right now? I'm always hunting for the next album to obsesses over.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 26/09/2025
‼️Running Cisco ASAs / Firepower? You need to check this out to see if you are affected.‼️ CISA has issued Emergency Directive 25-03 regarding a widespread zero-day campaign targeting Cisco ASA and Firepower devices. It’s pretty bad, patch now. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
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ED 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices | CISA
This page contains a web-friendly version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 15/08/2025
Wonder what the @usnua.com is all about? I had the opportunity to talk about it in the spring at #NFD37. Here's a run down from @networkingnerd.net with a video of the presentation. Thanks to Tom and @techstronggroup.bsky.social for the platform to spread the word! techstrong.it/itsm/meeting...
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Meeting Community Needs With the USNUA - Techstrong IT
Jason Gintert saw that so many disciplines in enterprise IT had user group meetings but for some reason networking was left out in the cold.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 13/08/2025
Behold, the Cisco FastHub 108T from 1997 - when 100Mbps shared bandwidth was cutting-edge and we lived without VLANs or auto-negotiation. Almost 30 years later, this single collision domain relic really shows how spoiled we've become with modern networking. (Yes, that's an OUI transceiver on top 🙂)
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 07/08/2025
Big OpenAI news: - They have open source models! Pretty stoked to give oss-gpt-20b a shot on my machine. openai.com/open-models/ - ChatGPT 5 is being released during a livestream at 10a PT today. www.theverge.com/news/720114/... AI advancement marches on!
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Open models by OpenAI
Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 30/07/2025
⚠️ Aruba Instant-On users: Critical vulns in AP firmware ≤3.2.0.1 - via hardcoded passwords + command injection. Patch ASAP. Awkward timing with HPE having to divest this under DOJ's Juniper deal terms. Details: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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HPE warns of hardcoded passwords in Aruba access points
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is warning of hardcoded credentials in Aruba Instant On Access Points that allow attackers to bypass normal device authentication and access the web interface.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 19/07/2025
GPT 5, coming soon! www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
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ChatGPT"s GPT-5-reasoning-alpha model spotted ahead of launch
GPT-5 might be just a few days or weeks away, as we've spotted references to a new model called gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 18/07/2025
Happy Friday, everyone! 🎶 Currently spinning: "Low on Foot" LP by Slow Mass, a recent favorite of mine. Look at that beautiful speckled vinyl! Any tunes brightening your day? Share top picks below! Wishing you all a fantastic end to the week and hope your summer has been awesome! 🌞
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 16/07/2025
Anyone else notice @cloudflare.social’s DNS service down for a bit for 1.1.1.1 on Monday 7/14? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, everyone should be this open and transparent so that folks in the community can learn from these sorts of events. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Re...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 08/07/2025
Wow, HPE Networking has been busy. Their Agentic AI Mesh announcement at HPE Discover, a strong position in the Gartner MQ and DOJ approval of the Juniper buy are some major highlights. The question remains: will they capitalize on their championship window? www.bitsinflight.com/hpe-networki...
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HPE Networking’s Inflection Point
The last week of June 2025 was pretty transformational for HPE networking. While most of us were still processing the stuff we learned at HPE Discover 2025 (June 23-26), two more bombshells dropped…
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 07/07/2025
COME HANG OUT WITH ME! (OH)NUG Cleveland is this Thursday 7/10 at the Wild Eagle, 5001 E Royalton Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147. Free food, free drink and a big helping of network knowledge. Sign up here: www.usnua.com/ohnug-clevel.... Space is filling fast! #OHNUG #USNUA @usnua.com
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(OH)NUG - Cleveland Summer Event 2025
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 30/06/2025
It’s official! That was a long leak cycle www.arista.com/en/solutions...
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SD-WAN and Cloud WAN
The Arista WAN Routing System delivers SD-WAN features and technologies via open standards, with automated zero-touch deployment, provisioning and policy control for better operator awareness with a t...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 28/06/2025
Big news! HPE’s acquisition of Juniper is going to proceed. I’m sure HPE would have preferred this news dropped before Discover but at least they didn’t have to wait until mid July 🙂 Buckle up everyone! Looks like a wild ride ahead. www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US DOJ settles antitrust case for HPE's $14 billion takeover of Juniper
The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its lawsuit challenging server maker Hewlett Packard Enterprise's all-cash acquisition of Juniper Networks for $14 billion, according to court filings.
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 23/06/2025
You at HPE Discover? Hey, me too! Let’s hang. Message me and let’s see if we can connect. #HPEDiscover2025 #HPE #Aruba
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 19/06/2025
So here's a rare personal post where I wanted to share a little bit of a backyard performance from my daughter Eliza's band. They're called Learner and they're really good. If you dig em, you should go see them if they end up near you. Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/learner.oh/. So proud 🥺
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 19/06/2025
So awesome to join Phil and Phil on this episode. School networks are different but so rewarding!
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 12/06/2025
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium have finally completed standard v1.0! I know many vendors have been working hard to hammer this standard out and it’s completion ought to do a lot to advance networking in AI and HPC. ultraethernet.org/ultra-ethern...
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) Launches Specification 1.0 Transforming Ethernet for AI and HPC at Scale - Ultra Ethernet Consortium
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — [EMBARGOED UNTIL JUNE 11, 2025] – The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) today announces the release of UEC Specification 1.0, a comprehensive, Ethernet-based communication stack…
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 03/06/2025
Pretty fascinating research and reporting by the incomparable @eldomador. It’s just awful what the Ukrainian people are going through. Though not ideal, I can understand that these ISPs doing what they have to in order to survive and keep Ukrainians connected.
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Exodus of IPv4 from War-torn Ukraine
In this post, we discuss how the ongoing war in Ukraine has led to a significant decline in the amount of IPv4 address space announced by Ukrainian Autonomous Systems (ASes), and why those addresses…
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 28/05/2025
@benjojo.bsky.social does the work to track down another BGP event on the internet that caused some disruptions on May 20th, 2025. Thanks for the reporting, Ben. blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-att... Vendors and networks, please get on a fix for this before a larger, more impactful event happens!
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 22/05/2025
The automation revolution has arrived on campus! Just returned from #OHECC2025 where universities like UC and OU are transforming IT with platform engineering and cutting deployment times by 80-95% and freeing staff to innovate rather than babysit infrastructure: www.bitsinflight.com/platform-eng...
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Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Higher Ed
I just spent a few days (May 13-16, 2025) at the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) conference and I could tell there's a shift happening in campus IT. The hallway conversations, the…
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Scott Robohn @scottrobohn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
packetpushers.net/podcasts/tot... @0xmc.bsky.social said one thing that sticks with me from this #TNOps conversation: "...the amount of things that you can just learn on your own is incredible." Thanks again #nanog for hosting #TNOps on the road! #netops @packetpushers.bsky.social @usnua.com
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TNO029: The Power of Curiosity With Michael Costello | Packet Pushers
Michael Costello shares his career journey on today's Total Network Operations. Currently on the Board of Directors at NANOG and a Distinguished Engineer at Saviynt, Michael talks about his early days...
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Jason Gintert @bitsinflight.com · 14/05/2025
VERY interesting, apparently Arista Networks is in the process of buying VeloCloud from Broadcom. Huge if true and from some sources I have as well, seems to be true. www.theinformation.com/briefings/ar...
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Arista Acquires a Networking Unit From Broadcom
Arista Networks is in the process of acquiring VeloCloud, a Broadcom business unit that sells networking software and hardware to customers such as telecommunications service providers, according to a...
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