Day: February 13, 2019

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xISP

Cord Cutters and the ISP

Dish Network (Stock: Dish) reported a net loss of 334,000 pay TV subscribers (compared to net additions of 39,000 one year ago), which factors out to 386,000 satellite subscribers lost and 52,000 new Sling TV subscribers. The company finished out the quarter with 12.32 million total pay TV subscribers, including 9.90 million Dish TV subscribers and 2.42 million Sling TV subscribers.

One of the key takeaways is Dish lost traditional satellite customers but picked up additional Sling TV customers. These are IPTV type customers.  If your network isn’t supporting video, it needs to.

https://www.fiercevideo.com/cable/dish-drops-386k-satellite-subs-but-adds-52k-sling-tv-customers-q4

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Cambium

Even the cat loves Cambium cnMatrix

Fuzzy the cat loving the new Cambium cnMatrix switch.

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cisco

Cisco 2960X I/O Usage

While double checking some stats on a network I came across this in Libre.   84% is usually something that would cause me to be alarmed, as Libre is trying to tell us.

After some research, I found the following.

While it is not documented, it was noted that this was by design and that it would not affect the switch as the switchport becomes more and more loaded.

The switch allocates dedicated memory to certain processes / resources by default and then additional resources when the configuration is added. This ensures proper functionality and is again by design.

The I/O Memory pool buffers information transmitted to and from the CPU, and does not affect the actual forwarding of packets on the switch.

Translation: The switch uses up these resources by default, even if they aren’t all being used.  Think of it as setting it aside for future use without dynamic allocation of them.