It is always great to get feedback directly from our customers and I had the privilege of a good exchange of information with Matthew Almand of Texas A&M University. They have a big network, comprised of 25 backbone Catalyst 6500 routers at 10 locations, interconnected by 1G and 10G links. There...

When I was in college at Vanderbilt University, and then later at the University of Maryland, computing was done on a central mainframe. (Yes, the dark ages of computing.) In the 1980s, I worked at the U.S. Naval Academy and was able to observe first-hand the initial boom of networks in higher education...