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Greg Ferro

Network Architect & Blogger

Greg has nearly 30 years of experience as an IT infrastructure engineer and has been focused on data networking for about 20, including 12 years as Cisco CCIE. He has worked in Asia and Europe as a network engineer and architect for a wide range of large and small firms in many verticals. He has been writing about networking for more than 20 years and in the media since 2001.

You can email Greg or follow him on Twitter as @etherealmind. He also writes the technical blog Etherealmind.com and hosts a weekly podcast on data networking at Packet Pushers.

Articles

Networking

Why Spanning Tree Is Evil

Greg Ferro
September 08, 2014
The Spanning Tree Protocol was built for an outdated network architecture, offering little to modern business, and the workarounds most engineers introduce aren't much better.