Jeff Wilson o fAgnostic Computing comments:

Let’s take a step together into a place unfamiliar and dark. A place that is, by all rights, strange and bewildering. A little place I like to think of as just one order of magnitude less rational than the Twilight Zone…a place few understand, and even fewer have mastered. A place just beyond my gateway, a place I really don’t care about except when I do, a place I like to call, the Wide Area Network.

That’s right. Let’s talk about the next hop. The land of BGP and OSPF and NAT and VPNs and QoS and CoS and DSCP and the “Goddamn ASA” and static routes and the “Goddamn firewall” all these words, phrases and acronyms you heard once, but dismissed as just so much  babble out of the  networking guy’s mouth, the one guy on your team who seems to age faster than all the others.

Jeff, with a little inspiration from Shakespeare, has some great thoughts on WANs.

Read more at: All the WANs are a stage