Since Network Field Day 9, I have spent more and more time mentally grinding on what Brocade is doing. I have been a pretty vocal critic of the foundry hardware and software platform since my first experience with it years and years ago. I found it to be lacking in completed features, Layer 3 functionality and general stability. This is one reason that anyone reading this should take pause and think about the background this post is sourcing from and how much of a shift it is.

[David Ulevitch]( “david@opendns.com”) - Mar 5, 2015 Hi Nick – Thanks for the compliments on our track record in your post and appreciate the thoughtful commentary on the acquisition. Looking forward to delivering more good stuff in the future.

For those that run BGP networks, BGPmon is often a tool they turn to for some really unique and hard to find information. Remember back in February 2008 when Pakistan Telecom “blocked” Youtube? That one was a really, really public example of something that BGPMon caught. BGPmon has been around for a long, long time. Quietly watching prefixes. Silently noting changes and reporting them to the ones lucky enough to know of its existence.