WEBCAST TODAY: ION Bucharest 2016

2016-12-28 Thread Joly MacFie
Over the holiday I am taking the opportunity to catch up on some editing. This session, from October, is a series of very informative presentations on the latest in network security practice and IPv6 deployment. I'm afraid the 3rd presentation is in Romanian, but the slides are in English! joly p

Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-28 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > 2 Vendor > > Can be implemented multiple ways, for instance 1 vendor per site > alternating sites, or gear deployed in pairs with one from each vendor > up and down the stack. > An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per sta

Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-28 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > > 2 Vendor > > > > Can be implemented multiple ways, for instance 1 vendor per site > > alternating sites, or gear deployed in pairs with one from each vendor > > up and down the s

Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-28 Thread Randy Bush
> An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per stack layer, > but alternate layer to layer. That is; Vendor A edge router, Vendor B > firewall, Vendor A/C switches, Vendor D anti-SPAM software, etc. This > doesn't address the bug impact issue as well as it alleviates the vendor > "ow

Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-28 Thread David Barak via NANOG
On Dec 28, 2016, at 5:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per stack layer, >> but alternate layer to layer. That is; Vendor A edge router, Vendor B >> firewall, Vendor A/C switches, Vendor D anti-SPAM software, etc. This >> doesn't address the bug i