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We believe in strong opinions, loosely held. And as you might guess, we have a lot of opinions on modern networking, interconnection, NetDevOps, network automation, IaC, and more.

Check back for new insights regularly, and be sure to comment when your opinions differ from ours!

Understanding the Role of Networking in Data Center Operations

By: Chris & Grizz

The importance of networking in data center operations cannot be understated. By leveraging interconnection and networking services, along with the power of automation, data center operators can enhance their operations, attract and retain customers, increase margins, and stay ahead in the competitive data center landscape.

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How to Build an Intent-Based Network (IBN)

By: Chris & Grizz

Delve into how you can build an Intent-Based Network (IBN) in a practical and straightforward manner.

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Essential Skills for NetDevOps Success

By: Chris & Grizz

This article delves into the essential skills for NetDevOps engineering success, focusing on areas like networking, Linux command-line proficiency, version control, scripting languages, systems engineering, and more.

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Why SDN Failed: A Eulogy for Software Defined Networking

By: Chris & Grizz

SDN promised to revolutionize the way networks were managed and controlled by decoupling the control plane from the data plane, so, why didn’t it?

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Rethinking the Concept of a Single Source of Truth in Network Management

By: Chris & Grizz

This expanded exploration delves into why the concept of a single source of truth can be both misleading and insufficient, and how embracing a multifaceted approach can drive more effective network management strategies.

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Building a Future-Proof Foundation: The Critical Role of Networking in Cloud and Hosting Services

By: Chris & Grizz

Networking is crucial in the cloud service and hosting industry because it underpins every operation, this makes networking akin to the solid ground upon which your business can build its future.

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Automation Versus Orchestration

By: Chris & Grizz

While automation significantly enhances efficiency, orchestration takes it a step further by adding layers of control, validation, and coordination.

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Embracing NetDevOps through Collaboration

By: Chris & Grizz

The feasibility of becoming a true NetDevOps engineer, the importance of building cross-functional NetDevOps teams, and some practical steps for smaller companies to adopt this model.

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The Promise of Reliability at Internet Exchanges

By: Chris & Grizz

As digital demands grow, ensuring reliability and efficiency in internet exchanges becomes ever more crucial. How can we best address this need?

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The Future of Network Operations: Automation, Intent-Based Networking, and DevOps

By: Chris & Grizz

The world of network operations is evolving to meet new demands, greater scale, and higher efficiencies through a growing focus on automation, intent-based networking, and DevOps practices.

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NetDevOps

By: Chris Grundemann

NetDevOps is a methodology that applies DevOps practices to networking. NetDevOps is how you build and operate an IBN.

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Intent Based Networking (IBN)

By: Chris Grundemann

Intent Based Networking (IBN) is the abstraction of network management specifics into a common management plane.

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The Power of PrefixCtl and RegCtl

By: Chris Grundemann

An update on our ARIN community grant project, focusing on two tools we’re developing: PrefixCtl and RegCtl.

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

By: Chris Grundemann

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a concept from datacenter virtualization and especially cloud and DevOps that makes things repeatable, automatable, and verifiable by leveraging abstraction and flipping the source of truth.

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FullCtl and Subsea Cloud Forge a New Era in Underwater Data Center Connectivity

By: Chris Grundemann

Subsea Cloud, a pioneer in Subsea data center infrastructure, has joined forces with FullCtl, the powerhouse in interconnection automation solutions.

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

By: Chris Grundemann

Just as network virtualization abstracts our network topology from the physical network connections, NFV abstracts our network architecture from the physical network devices.

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Virtualization

By: Chris Grundemann

Network virtualization is the act of using tunnels to build overlay networks with topologies that are independent of the underlay network.

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Observability

By: Chris Grundemann

Network observability is the capacity to easily answer any question about your network, right now.

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Validation

By: Chris Grundemann

Validation is the feedback we need when automating and orchestrating a network.

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AutoPeer API

By: Chris Grundemann

The AutoPeer API represents a significant leap forward in peering automation, streamlining a once manual and cumbersome process.

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Feedback

By: Chris Grundemann

Feedback loops are how we control systems to avoid “fail at scale” and “runaway automation” problems.

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Revolutionizing Internet Registry Data Access

By: Chris Grundemann

FullCtl is honored to be among the distinguished recipients of the 2023 ARIN Community Grant. The support from ARIN will play a pivotal role in bringing RegCtl and PrefixCtl to fruition.

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Orchestration

By: Chris Grundemann

The coordination and synchronization of multiple devices, systems, services, applications, and automations in order to execute a larger workflow or process is what we mean by orchestration.

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Automation

By: Chris Grundemann

Network automation is the act of offloading network operations to software tools. And almost every aspect of network operations can be automated.

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Enhancing Internet Exchange Operations with FullCtl’s ixCtl Platform

By: Chris Grundemann

We’re excited to share the news of our partnership with TOWARDEX and the successful deployment of ixCtl at the Massachusetts Internet Exchange (MASS IX).

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Software Defined Networking (SDN)

By: Chris Grundemann

With SDN there is a centralized controller which collects telemetry and mandates forwarding paths through an out of band (OOB) control channel to an API on each device/function.

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Upgrade Now! BIRD 1 EoL This Year (2023)

By: Chris Grundemann

With the curtain falling on BIRD 1 (end of life will happen at the end of 2023), it’s vital to swiftly upgrade to BIRD 2.

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The Evolution of Network Operations

By: Chris Grundemann

In the beginning, there was the CLI, and for a (long) time the CLI was good (enough). But networks have grown and evolved since those early days.

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NetBox Labs Agrees: The Future of Interconnection is Automated

By: Chris Grundemann

FullCtl is partnering with NetBox Labs in support of our mission to standardize, simplify, and spread interconnection.

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Update PeeringDB Without Sharing Credentials

By: Chris Grundemann

During the recent NANOG 87 hackathon focused on “Interacting With Sources of Truth” the FullCtl team created a proof of concept (PoC) that allows third party applications (like PeerCtl) to let users update PeeringDB records without needing to share credentials.

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2023 State of Network Automation Survey

By: Chris Grundemann

How much network automation is actually deployed, in production, today? I’d like to find out – and I want to share what I find with you!

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