Simon Beevers

Searching for Success

What I’ve learned so far from operating networks ... part 3 of … who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

Feb 10 • Simon Beevers

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January 2026

🖖🏻 It's Data Jim, but not as we know it 🖖🏻

The long tail problem of moving to a data driven and data centric view of the world/ network.

Jan 29 • Simon Beevers

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November 2025

🤖 “I have detailed files” 🤖

Pre-tense

Nov 11, 2025 • Simon Beevers

October 2025

🎶 Underlay, overlay … networking free, the network engineers of the Internet are networking free 🎶

Intro One of the more ‘modern’ concepts that is used predominantly amongst marketing of a technology businesses, is what network engineers have been…

Oct 14, 2025 • Simon Beevers

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🎶 Do you want to find a Network? 🎶

Network discovery isn't all it's cracked up to be, however if you follow the interface state and the ARP table you'll be rowing in the right direction…

Oct 7, 2025 • Simon Beevers

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September 2025

The Day in the Life of an Operator

A Packet Story

Sep 30, 2025 • Simon Beevers

P ... P ... P ... Pick up a Pirate

Paraphrasing a great advert of the 1970's, it's time to P ... P ... P ... Pick up aPirate (P... P... P... Pick up a Penguin), well not literally…

Sep 23, 2025 • Simon Beevers

Static NAT46 <> NAT64, why we need both and they’re part of NAT-PT

Sometime ago I came across a requirement for the ability to deal with IPv4 conflicts during M&A and/ or MSPs taking on another customer who happened to…

Sep 16, 2025 • Simon Beevers

March 2025

MPLS WC 2025, and the learnings from MPLS WC 2024 “… it’s like Elf …”

“For SRv6, it's like the movie Elf when they realise the book is missing two pages, people are signing the pages as if SRv6 is ready to go, and it's…

Mar 24, 2025 • Simon Beevers

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See it … Say it … and Sort it or Flag it (SSSF)

Following on from my previous article Customers are the North Star, I wanted to make a quick post about SSSF.

Mar 12, 2025 • Simon Beevers

February 2025

Merchant Silicon or not to Merchant Silicon ... that is the question.

What is this Merchant Silicon thing anyway?

Feb 28, 2025 • Simon Beevers

Searching for Success

What I’ve learned so far from operating networks ... part 2 of … who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

Feb 15, 2025 • Simon Beevers