Can't get excited after least year's disappointments. Phil Ligget's efforts to cast the sport in a good light are merely annoying rather than courageous.
It's not to much to ask that people compete fairly. For some reason cyclists and AFL footballers think otherwise.
Force10 are finally in Australia. Force10 and Foundry now present a real alternative to the Cisco 6500-series for a core switch/router. Juniper's MX960 would also be an interesting core router.
Netgear sharing a booth, D-link nowhere to be seen, Dell here but wth no networking kit. Managed workgroup switches are a commodity, a network owner should buy the cheapest ones they can that have a reasonable element manager. Netgear seemed to get this, even though they are new to the enterprise market. Dell should have got this, but don't seem to, which sums up a lot of that company's problems at the moment. D-Link weren't there.
Lots of firewalls, but many of them PC-based, which isn't really suitable for more than 100Mbps of traffic.
Interesting freebies. A USB/DECT phone, works with Asterisk with some fiddling. A SIM reader. A laser pointer (thank you, NetApp).
Caught up with Jerry from DRAGON. Looks like G-MPLS is finally ready to roll.
Olivia Manning. Being The danger tree (1977), The battle lost and won (1978) and The sum of things (1980).
Set in Egypt at the height of the struggle against the Axis. Told in a wonderful third-person voice.
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