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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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Try Before You Buy: Nokia Is Taking Validated Designs Seriously (And That’s Rarer Than You Think)Try Before You Buy: Nokia Is Taking Validated Designs Seriously (And That’s Rarer Than You Think)

April 17, 2026April 17, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:56 am

Vendors publish "validated designs" and let them rot. Nokia is doing something different — and the four-year support commitment is...

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But It Works in the Lab!But It Works in the Lab!

April 2, 2026April 2, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:30 am

Software developers and security engineers are often at odds. This needs to stop and I have some suggestions....

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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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