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IPv6 has noteworthy challenges to overcome when transitioning from IPv4. What are some main resistance against IPv6 adoption? The post The Challenges of Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 appeared f...

https://www.routerfreak.com/the-challenges-of-migrating-from-ipv4-to-ipv6/

We examine Cisco’s current VoIP strategy to encourage customers to embrace their cloud-based counterparts, along with a case study. The post The Future of IP Telephony with Cisco appeared fi...

https://www.routerfreak.com/the-future-of-ip-telephony-with-cisco/

Mine is just one of the many stories you will hear from women Network Engineers; on how we try to navigate our careers in an industry that, somehow, is still dominated by men. The post Women Ne...

https://www.routerfreak.com/women-network-engineers-career-culture-and-challenges/

This is what 334 network engineers think about it. We recently asked our readers, “Is network engineering dead?” and the results were surprisingly consistent. The post Survey Results: Is Ne...

https://www.routerfreak.com/is-network-engineering-dead/

They are often considered as ‘nerds’, however, take a look into 7 of their greatest qualities to find out why Network Engineers could actually be a hot catch to date. The post 7 Reasons Why...

https://www.routerfreak.com/date-network-engineer/

The Networking world is being bombarded by so many “new” technologies that it is difficult to keep up with them all, from Software Defined Networking (SDN) to Network Function Virtualization ...

https://www.routerfreak.com/software-defined-sd-wan-getting-facelift/

In this article, we will be discussing Open Networking and try to dissect what the “open” in Open Networking really means. We will also be looking at different real-life products and solution...

https://www.routerfreak.com/open-networking-theory-practice/

Introduction When I started out in my Networking career, Cisco’s firewall product was called the Cisco Private Internet eXchange (PIX). A few years after that, they rebranded it as the Cisco Ad...

https://www.routerfreak.com/network-functions-virtualization-nfv/

When you hear of “the cloud”, what comes to your mind? For many company executives when the cloud was becoming a popular thing, what came to mind was fear – fear of loss of data, fear of co...

https://www.routerfreak.com/cloud-computing/

In previous years, physical limitations such as space and electric power, forced data centers to adopt virtualization strategies. Virtual servers redefined what we know about the Data Center and ...

https://www.routerfreak.com/container-technology-opportunity-challenge-for-network-engineers/