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John has worked in the networking industry for over 20 years, and obtained his CCIE Routing & Switching in early 2001. A network engineer by day, he has consulted in the UK and USA for Internet and mobile service providers, financial, retail and other enterprise customers, designing, supporting and troubleshooting networks of all sizes and types. He now works in the enterprise space, enjoying knowing where he’ll be located every week and that he’ll be home for dinner.
John blogs at http://movingpackets.net/ where he shares his thoughts and experiences with automation, scripting, best practices, commonly needed solutions, technical challenges and whatever else interests him in the networking and technology arena.
24 Events Attended
2 Field Day Appearances
7 Field Day Videos
- Networking Field Day 11 Packet Pushers Podcast
- Networking Field Day 11 – Storage Roundtable
- Networking Field Day 11 – Delegate Career Roundtable
- Networking Field Day 11 – Abstraction Roundtable
- Networking Field Day 11 – Delegate Security Roundtable
- Networking Field Day 11 – Delegate SDN Roundtable
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Launch Roundtable
108 Links with Tag @mrtugs
- “AI Assist” Is Better Than “AI Do It for Me”
- The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation
- Progress Flowmon Is a Triple Threat for Network Traffic Monitoring
- Why Haven’t I Tried ZeroTier Before?
- Cisco Intent-Based Networking Roundtable
- Meraki in the Middle – Smart Security Cameras
- Viavi Enterprise Provides Unexpected Network Insights
- Cisco SP Nails It at NFDx
- New Year, New Post, NFDx!
- Change Doesn’t Have To Be a Four Letter Word
- Verify, Or Die Trying: Observations on Change Management
- Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 3
- Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 2
- Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Part 1
- Off the Cuff – NFD17 Wrap Up
- Networking Field Day 17 (NFD17) Redux
- Automatic Product Pitch Generator
- Cisco, Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Last Day of NFD17!
- Diving Into Design With The Aruba 8400
- Can Teridion Really Boost Internet Throughput?
- How Does NetBeez Rate For Troubleshooting?
- Ask Me About My Beez! A Look at NetBeez, 18 Months On.
- The Importance of the Network Software Supply Chain
- Cumulus, Dell, Red Hat Demo Linux as Full Stack SDDC
- Skyport Systems and The Zero Trust DC
- Netflix Flies In The Clouds
- The Future is Bright! The Future is PoE?
- Meet the Engineering Team at Citrix NetScaler
- SDN? I Still Don’t kNow what it Is…
- Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD WAN – Is It Any Good?
- 99 Problems and Configuration and Telemetry Ain’t Two
- Riverbed Unleashes A Hungry “Project Tiger”
- Riverbed – Another Angle on SD WAN
- Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
- What is SD WAN?
- NetBeez – Private Distributed Monitoring
- Liveblog from ONUG Day 1!
- Nuage Announces Underlay/Overlay Event Management Platform
- Liveblog from ONUG Day 2
- Why Do TFD Delegates Hate Gartner?
- Software Defined Reality – NFD9 Redux
- Networking Field Day 9 Is Almost Here!
- Big Switch Is Getting Bigger. Much Bigger.
- OpenGear at Interop – Introducing the CM7100
- SDN And More – Interop Roundtable Discussion
- The A10 Health Monitor You Didn’t Know About
- A10 – That Global Health Monitor Warning
- A10 Service Failure Recovery
- Secrets Behind A10 Health Monitors
- Secret Sunday – Mike Bushong
- Apple Working Hard to Improve Siri?
- HP Talks SDN Turkey at Interop
- Network Monitoring Videos from NFD8
- Network Monitoring – So Many Choices!
- NFD8 Is Coming!
- Secret Sunday #2 – Schprokits
- A10, aXAPI, and Another Awesome App
- Big Switch “Big Cloud Fabric”. Big Deal?
- Pluribus Server Switch – WLTM Engineer With Ideas!
- Thoughts on Cisco Acquiring Tail-F Systems
- Why the Networking Industry Needs a Mini-NETCONF, and Needs it NOW
- Configuration Management the Tail-f NCS Way
- Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) – You Won’t Believe Who Has It
- SDN Is The Mother(******) of Invention
- Discussing NFD7 with the Packet Pushers
- Show 184 – The Future of Networking Part 2 as Inspired by #NFD7
- The Future of Networking Part 1 As Inspired By #NFD7
- Are Younger Engineers Dumb? Part 2
- NFD7 is Over; It’s Redux Time!
- NFD7 Day 3 (Friday) – and My Birthday!
- NFD7 Day 2 (Thursday)
- Free HD Live Stream of NFD7!
- NFD7 Day 1 (Wednesday)
- Holy Smokes, it’s Almost NFD Time Again!
- Burning Out On Your Career
- YAML – Yet Another YAML Lover
- Will We See a “Software Defined Field Day”?
- Enhance Your (Social) Network With Twitter
- Concerns about Cisco ACI and Nexus 9k
- Photos from Cisco’s ACI Launch in NYC
- Cisco’s ACI (Insieme) Launch
- Why You Won’t Have A Job In 5 Years
- Taking the Measure of Cisco’s Insieme
- Software Defined, uh, Week From Unicornland?
- Solarwinds Thwack Ambassador Redux
- Solarwinds – A Lot of Hot Air?
- Solarwinds Thwack Ambassador for July 2013
- Ruckus AP7982 and ZD1100 – First Look
- Opengear’s Hedgehog – The ACM5504-G-W-I
- 15 Minutes, Puppet and a Screwdriver
- Decoding the New Infrastructure – NFD5 Redux
- Sci-fi Throwdown (Opinionated Bracket from Hell)
- Smart Optical Switching – Your Plexxible Friend
- Get Your Geek On (Live Streaming from NFD5)
- What is Networking Field Day 5 Anyway?
- Gaining Visibility with Opengear VCMS
- Opengear ACM5004 – Going Cellular!
- Building Custom Firmware for the Opengear ACM5004
- Customizing Scripts on the Opengear ACM5004
- Opengear ACM5004 – Auto-Response First Steps
- Opengear ACM5004-G Review
- Opengear – More Than A Dumb Terminal (Server)
- Spirent iTest Lab Optimizer
- Get Fuzzy – Hunting for Zero Days with Spirent
- Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
- Statseeker – Keeping An Eye on the Little Things
- Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
- Networking Field Day 4
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