IPv6 is coming. Like SDN, we can’t ignore it. Are you ready? Are you apps ready? I’ll wager the answer is no. Mine aren’t. I’ve been working on IPv6 for about 11 years, from early days of tunnels to full native IPv6 at home and at work. In teaching the IPv6 workshop for internet2, one of the things that I always suggest is to have a dual stacked host and an IPv6 only host available for testing.

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Plexxi is an interesting product that has recently emerged in the data center space. While data center, fabric and cloud are all the rage in the buzzword world of data networking, this one caught my attention because it was something unique that I’d not seen before. Their TOR boxes have a few interesting additions to them, the first of which is a WDM port on the back. Now, I’m not really a stranger to the WDM world.

[Jon]( “Jon.Hudson@gmail.com”) - Dec 6, 2012 Thank you for a very good and honest review. We all need more feedback like this. REALLY Not happy about your sshd results. Will look into asap. Thanks for taking the time to do all the work that went into this!!!! Jon Nick Buraglio - Dec 0, 2012 Thanks, Jon. I do have high hopes for this product. It is innovative and yet accessible. Plexxi could be WDM for the rest of us.

I recently had the opportinity to work with the much-anticipated Brocade VDX “Ethernet Fabric” platform. I do admit tha tI’m intrigued by this product. I’d seen it work multiple times in demos and it worked so well and looked to easy that we actively tried to throw curve balls at the demo organizer to prove it wasn’t canned. It succeeded. The hardware hashing across the VLAGs is very slick. The VMware VSwitch integration worked well and was handy.

[Paul Leet]( “paul.leet@gmail.com”) - Dec 6, 2012 Having worked on both and done POC for 5800 and Supermassive, if you enable any DPI function or SSL offload, the SRX chokes while the Supermassive hums along. There are only a couple configurations where the SRX has the SonicWALL beat. Check out Network testing and NSS labs results for independent testing. I can send them to you if you wish. /p Nick Buraglio - Dec 1, 2012

~12 years ago I had a drinking buddy that worked with me at the regional ISP. We had a lot in common, he had been an icon back in the didjits era of punk rock in Champaign Urbana and we had briefly been in a terrible band together. He introduced me to a dude that to this day I just knew as “Ravi Sonicwall”. He had apparently been recruited from the U of I, written a lot of the low level pieces of the original sonicwall and retired to enjoy life and buy beers (he actually scolded me at a bar for buying him a beer saying “when I’m in town, I buy the beers”).