Comments for Brandon Carroll - CCIE #23837 http://brandonjcarroll.com Brandon Carroll, CCIE #23837, Blogger, Training, Technology Enthusiast! Thu, 10 May 2012 09:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Understanding Switch Fabrics Part 1 by David Quinn http://brandonjcarroll.com/understanding-switch-fabrics-part-1/#comment-194 David Quinn Thu, 10 May 2012 09:33:00 +0000 http://brandonjcarroll.com/?p=341#comment-194 This looks like what happened when the rotary dial phone went to the fabric of pulse dialing. The problem with switch anything today is people want information anywhere .. Fixed, portable, Mobile, and Vehicular from any number of devices. Edge technologies are changing faster than 300 foot at a time switch anything can keep up while virtualization and cloud or centralized data center comes back into vogue. The next reality is fiber point to multipoint distribution via the aggregation core and the complete elimination of distribution switches. This looks like what happened when the rotary dial phone went to the fabric of pulse dialing. The problem with switch anything today is people want information anywhere .. Fixed, portable, Mobile, and Vehicular from any number of devices. Edge technologies are changing faster than 300 foot at a time switch anything can keep up while virtualization and cloud or centralized data center comes back into vogue. The next reality is fiber point to multipoint distribution via the aggregation core and the complete elimination of distribution switches.

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]]> Comment on Understanding Switch Fabrics Part 1 by Xzatech http://brandonjcarroll.com/understanding-switch-fabrics-part-1/#comment-189 Xzatech Thu, 03 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000 http://brandonjcarroll.com/?p=341#comment-189 Solid explanation eager to read the rest. Solid explanation eager to read the rest.

]]> Comment on What’s Happening To Apple? by arumdevil http://brandonjcarroll.com/whats-happening-to-apple/#comment-188 arumdevil Wed, 02 May 2012 19:46:00 +0000 http://brandonjcarroll.com/?p=225#comment-188 Apple have really dropped the ball in my opinion. They used to think different, macs just worked, and I could set my mac up to reliably do what I wanted it to, just the way I wanted. With Lion (I am still with snowleopard 10.6.8) things got bad, and Mountain Lion doesn't make them much better. Now so many little things have changed, it's not the reliable workhorse it used to be and it doesn't just work as much as it should. And more and more I find myself wondering if they're even thinking at all when they work on these updates. The latest OS versions seem to dictate HOW I use the computer, but it shouldn't be so. They've lost the plot as far as I can see. RIP Jobs, RIP Apple. Apple have really dropped the ball in my opinion. They used to think different, macs just worked, and I could set my mac up to reliably do what I wanted it to, just the way I wanted. With Lion (I am still with snowleopard 10.6.8) things got bad, and Mountain Lion doesn’t make them much better. Now so many little things have changed, it’s not the reliable workhorse it used to be and it doesn’t just work as much as it should. And more and more I find myself wondering if they’re even thinking at all when they work on these updates.

The latest OS versions seem to dictate HOW I use the computer, but it shouldn’t be so.

They’ve lost the plot as far as I can see. RIP Jobs, RIP Apple.

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]]> Comment on Understanding Switch Fabrics Part 2 by Chostz http://brandonjcarroll.com/understanding-switch-fabrics-part-2/#comment-185 Chostz Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:33:00 +0000 http://brandonjcarroll.com/?p=395#comment-185 Brandon, Nice illustrations and thanks for explaining it very clearly. I do have one question though. How does the initial exchange "Are you a Brocade switch happen"? What happens if I am not connected to a Brocade switch and the neighbor switch does not respond kindly or most likely not respond at all? Is there some kind of timeout or some amount of retries built in? Sounds like the Brocade switch will wait for an awful amount of time before it transitions the port to a edge port? I can't wait to see your posts on the other topics. Thanks again Casey. Brandon,

Nice illustrations and thanks for explaining it very clearly. I do have one question though. How does the initial exchange “Are you a Brocade switch happen”? What happens if I am not connected to a Brocade switch and the neighbor switch does not respond kindly or most likely not respond at all? Is there some kind of timeout or some amount of retries built in? Sounds like the Brocade switch will wait for an awful amount of time before it transitions the port to a edge port?

I can’t wait to see your posts on the other topics.

Thanks again
Casey.

]]> Comment on VCS by Understanding Switch Fabrics Part 2 http://brandonjcarroll.com/dictionary/vcs/#comment-183 Understanding Switch Fabrics Part 2 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:40:20 +0000 http://brandonjcarroll.com/?page_id=376#comment-183 [...] to discuss how the Brocade VDX switch works in it’s two operational modes, Classic Mode and VCS mode. We will not be spending much time on the Classic Mode, mainly because most already understand [...] [...] to discuss how the Brocade VDX switch works in it’s two operational modes, Classic Mode and VCS mode. We will not be spending much time on the Classic Mode, mainly because most already understand [...]

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