Tom Hollingsworth

About the Author:

Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day.  His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/

Articles by Tom Hollingsworth

Device Validation Security In Service Provider Networks

March 26, 2019

How do you know if you can trust your devices? What if they are the devices transporting data to you? Can you really know for sure? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how Cisco is security and validating service provider devices on IOS-XR.

Drive Your Own Demo with Riverbed

March 21, 2019

Do you have the courage to let your audience drive their own demo? What kind of benefits could you get from letting people explore all on their own? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the Riverbed presentation from Networking Field Day 19 and how Brandon Carroll did just that.

Making Way For The New With Cisco

March 19, 2019

How hard is it to maintain old code? Can you keep upgrading architectures from the last decade indefinitely? When do you need to cut over to something more modern and familiar? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at one such choice from Cisco in the realm of wireless controller software.

Kentik and The Negative Roadmap

March 15, 2019

Telling people “no” is hard. It’s extremely hard when you’re a company making products. But sometimes “no” is exactly what people need to hear to make them say “yes”. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Kentik and how a Negative Roadmap is a huge positive for them.

The Turmoil Of The Cloud

February 28, 2019

How is cloud adoption proceeding for your teams? How involved are your infrastructure teams when it comes to cloud deployments? Tom Hollingsworth analyzes a report from Veriflow that talks about how the cloud isn’t quite as awesome as people would be led to believe.

Building Cloud SD-WAN Success with Koch

February 26, 2019

Building out your SD-WAN solution needs to include a look at how public cloud will impact your decisions. For large companies, like Koch Business Solutions, that choice is even more complicated. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how Koch is building a successful hybrid SD-WAN and public cloud deployment on Amazon AWS.

Exciting Conversations Ahead at RSA 2019

February 18, 2019

RSA 2019 is coming up fast! Tom Hollingsworth takes a quick look at why RSA is so important as well as understanding some of the areas of security that are in focus this year and who you should be talking to in order to learn more about them.

The Future of Sports Wi-Fi is Intelligent with Extreme Networks

February 12, 2019

Is your wireless network producing more data than you can manage? Is there a way to sort through it all to provide real information? And how does that all scale in a stadium? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the new hardware and software releases from Extreme Networks and how they’re working together to build the next generation of wirelessly-connected stadiums.

Accelerating Alternatives with Arrcus and 400GbE

January 30, 2019

Networks are getting faster every day. With the advent of Broadcom Tomahawk 3, what options do you have for running 400GbE in your network. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Arrcus and their newest release of ArcOS and how it can enable tomorrow’s networking features today.

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