A Chartered Engineer with commercial awareness and 30 years experience of network and telecoms, beginning in corporate networking and then carrier networking, then to Media and Broadcast. I have seen many technologies come and go, and old ideas get repackaged as new innovations. Consulting for networking for Broadcasters & Media companies for 18+ years, my designs and deployments are a foundation for much of what you watch on TV or at the cinema.Consulting, designing, deploying, diagnosing, testing,HLD/LLD, innovating on the network, building robust, scalable, resilient and predictable environments. I like to get under the hood on the network and understand the internals of a devices or data flows, not blindly believe the vendor data sheets or slide decks. The Cloud brings some interesting new challenges but it still has to obey the laws of physics….. and commerce.Cisco (Catalyst & Nexus), Arista, Dell; plus Force10 & Juniper Networks, and some SNMP/NMS too.NETWORKING: 1/10/40/25/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet – Campus and Small Data Centre solutions, LAN, MAN, WAN, Wireless Ethernet, LACP/MLAG/vPC. Spine & Leaf, Switching, Routing, TCP/IP/UDP, MPLS, ATM, xDSL and Broadband QoS/Cos, FEC, HSRP/GLBP/VRRP, DHCP/DNS.MEDIA & HARDWARE: Structured Cabling, Fibre Optic MMF/SMF/MPO/MTP/BiDi, DWDM, CWDM, SNMP. Network impairment emulation, NETEM using Linux. AVID NEXIS network storage, High bandwidth network-video on LAN, MAN, WAN, Cloud, Broadcast environments.COMMUNICATIONS:, VPN, Video Conferencing, IPSEC, Data Encryption, Firewall, VoIP, RS232, RS485, Telemetry, MODBUS.Accreditations: EURING CEng MIET CCDP® CCNP® CCIP®B.T.E.C. Higher Certificate, Electronic Instrumentation (HNC/D equivalent).Volunteer with London Wildlife Trust