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Your AI Network Isn’t an AI Network (And That’s Fine)Your AI Network Isn’t an AI Network (And That’s Fine)

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:00 am

The article discusses AI networking presentations, particularly Arista's, highlighting four AI fabrics: front-end, scale-out, scale-across, and scale-up. It emphasizes that...

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Silicon One Everywhere, SONiC On Top: A Cisco Pitch I Wasn’t ExpectingSilicon One Everywhere, SONiC On Top: A Cisco Pitch I Wasn’t Expecting

April 26, 2026April 26, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:45 am

Cisco is now the third-largest contributor to the SONiC project, following Microsoft and NVIDIA. This shift indicates a change in...

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Mind the Gap: How MSPs Can Use Lightyear to Own the Telecom LifecycleMind the Gap: How MSPs Can Use Lightyear to Own the Telecom Lifecycle

April 23, 2026April 23, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 11:24 am

I’m sitting in the audience at Network Field Day watching Dennis Thankachan and Ryan Schrack from Lightyear demo what they...

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AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not YoursAIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not Yours

April 21, 2026April 21, 2026| 3 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:00 am

Mike Hoffman has been doing this longer than most of us. His first network troubleshooting tool was an oscilloscope on...

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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  1. Mind the Gap: How MSPs Can Use Lightyear to Own the Telecom Lifecycle - Tech Field Day on Mind the Gap: How MSPs Can Use Lightyear to Own the Telecom LifecycleApril 28, 2026

    […] Mind the Gap: How MSPs Can Use Lightyear to Own the Telecom Lifecycle […]

  2. Deepak Kakadia on AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not YoursApril 27, 2026

    Very Helpful and insightful article Ben !

  3. AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It's Your Vendor's Fault, Not Yours - Tech Field Day on AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not YoursApril 24, 2026

    […] AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not Yours […]

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