AgenticOps for Network Engineers: Useful Automation or Marketing Term?
AgenticOps is useful only when it is grounded in telemetry, topology, approvals, simulation, and rollback. Here is how network engineers should evaluate it.
Media Server Storage Design: NAS, CIFS/NFS Mounts, Permissions, and Local Cache
Design reliable storage for Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, SABnzbd, and Tdarr using NAS mounts, CIFS or NFS, Linux permissions, local cache, and rebuildable paths.
UniFi Site Magic SD-WAN: Setup, Routing, Security, and Operational Limits
Choose a UniFi Site Magic topology with clear routing, NAT, isolation, ownership, capacity, validation, and failure boundaries before connecting production networks.
Catalyst Campus Fabric: eBGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and the Path to Macro and Microsegmentation
A design-focused look at Catalyst campus fabric, eBGP/EVPN/VXLAN, VRF macrosegmentation, TrustSec SGT microsegmentation, and how campus fabrics mature toward zero-trust segmentation.
Cisco Cloud Control Explained: What It Means for Network Operations
Cisco Cloud Control is more than another dashboard. It is Cisco’s attempt to make cross-domain operations, AI Canvas, telemetry, agents, and governed workflows part of one operating model.
Plex Homelab Architecture: Storage, GPU Transcoding, and Library Design
Plan a Plex and Arr homelab around storage, GPU transcoding, library structure, automation boundaries, backups, monitoring, and lawful personal media use.
Cisco Secure Access: Where SSE, ZTNA, SD-WAN, and AI Security Meet
A practical look at Cisco Secure Access, SSE, ZTNA, Meraki SD-WAN integration, AI application control, and how to design a migration away from legacy VPN assumptions.
My Ubiquiti UniFi Home Network: Business-Grade Networking at Home
Why I built my home network around Ubiquiti UniFi: UXG Pro, UCKP, USW Pro 48, PoE switching, Flex Mini edge switches, U6 Pro Wi-Fi 6 coverage, dual WAN, VLAN segmentation, security, visibility, and business-grade control without recurring licenses.
Cisco Live 2026: Network Announcements That Matter
Cisco Live US 2026 in Las Vegas centered on Cisco Cloud Control, AgenticOps, Multicloud Fabric, secure campus and branch networking, Live Protect, Cisco IQ, quantum readiness, and new learning paths for network teams.
Building a Production-Grade Tdarr GPU Transcoding Stack for a Homelab
Deploy a pinned Tdarr server and GPU node with consistent paths, local cache, staged validation, quarantine, authentication, monitoring, and tested rollback.