Michael Still

Background

About Michael Still

Network Architect focusing on solving problems for large enterprises and service providers. Deployed routing and switching all over the world. Things I do or gear I've engineered- Complex IP Routing with all the usual suspects - OSPF, BGP, ISIS - Layer-2 stuff. I hate STP though. Use EVPN/VxLan- MPLS. LDP. RSVP. l2circuits, VPLS, l3vpn - Best Practices - Know when to do some things and not others based on experience and know-how - Deployed literally tons of Juniper MX and EX. Lots of SRX- Cisco stuff. yeah everyone does this. It would take too long to list out all the Cisco stuff I've done- Lots of stuff on Brocade MLX - Peering - MMR/IDF/MDF design / site layout / cabling / Layer-1 - Routing policy. Yep its complicated. Do you set IGP Metrics or use Auto-Calc- IP Addressing. IPv6- Vendor selection / requirements generation / evaluation - CGNAT. Don't like it but it is what it is- Alcatel-Lucent gear. 7750 and 7950 are pretty nice boxes- Decent at communications- Lots of other stuff that most people will find boring. Specialties: Problem Solving, which includes Problem Identification which seems lost of lots of people.