The Interop PR machine starts up and network intelligence

Well it should be a busy week in the news with Interop going on.  This morning has already seen a flood of announcements and articles.  Should be fun.  Will try to keep you all updated from out in Vegas. As well as talk about some cool news we will be announcing there as well.

One thing I read I did want to bring up though.  Jon Oltsik had a good article up in his C/Net blog on the fast/dumb pipes versus intelligent network debate. While I don't pretend to know as much as about this one as Chris Hoff or am nearly as passionate about it, I do find it interesting. I have to agree with Jon.  I think due to Moore's Law delivering ever increasing horsepower to off the shelf CPU's, we are seeing more and more intelligence on the network.  But I think Jon has it right, we need to have a "crack once, process many" model.  That is we inspect a packet once and use that for multiple purposes (IDS, AV, etc.).