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Michael Bowen

Kompressor

Kompressor You're a project network engineer. You arrive at the office. The group calendar shows there are twenty services to migrate this week. You've never logged in to these firewalls before. You've never seen the services that need to be migrated before. Each firewall is…

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Michael Bowen

The best tool for the job?

For SRE, any manual, structurally mandated operational task is abhorrent. As a contract network engineer, I tend to move around a bit. I get to work in lots of different places with lots of different people which is quite fun. Recently, I was asked to…

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Michael Bowen

Pseudowire Headend Termination - PART2

As network engineers, I think it's fair to say we like to try and spend our time making a difference? Despite being considered the 'bread and butter' of the Service Provider world, provisioning and decommissioning are two areas that can still demand our attention. More…

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