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HPE Tech Jam 2025

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This week I have been attending HPE Tech Jam in Orlando. For those who don’t know, this is HPE’s SE and Partner event full of technical training and keynotes. This year it was held at the Disney Dolphin and Swan Resort and convention center. Going in, I had no idea what to expect as this […]

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Standards, Who Needs Standards!

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| Frustration, technology, troubleshooting
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Standards, we’re surrounded by them in our industry. Cabling standards like TIA586A/B tell us how to wire category 5/5e/6/6a (dang there’s another standard) for use in Ethernet (bam, another one). They help us ensure uniformity and compatibility in our industry. Without them, we would have balkanization and your Cisco network couldn’t talk to your Juniper […]

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Captive Portals and Not So Captive Portals

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| Blog, Palo Alto
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A few years ago as I was first cutting my teeth in the Palo Alto firewall world, I had a customer request something “unique” and I created a one-off solution. The request was to have a stand-alone portal that the end-users could go to and log in to gain additional access to resources. The reason […]

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AI RRM It’s What’s On the Air

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| cisco, Tech Field Day, wireless
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Traditionally, network engineers are used to having to manage the channel and power level for the access points in their environment. This has caused a long-standing debate between those that trust Radio Resource Monitoring (RRM) and those that insist on statically assigning these values. I’m generally on the side of trusting RRM, but that’s mainly […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

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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