Aaron Gershfield Technology Reviews

Nintendo Wii Fit

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:05:40 +0000

The Wii Fit is finally out. The balance board is pressure sensitive, which allows game play to be controlled by changing position and redistributing their weight.
The unit is wireless, and it automatically connects to the Wii console. It is also able to automatically turn itself off.

This really is the next big thing in virtual reality. It will get you stretching, bending and working up a sweat !

Google make their own 10 Gigabit Switches

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:50:38 +0000

It looks like Google aren’t satisified with buying their network infrastructure, so instead they’ve decided to put their engineers on the case and build their own switches themselves.

Google have been buying up the components required to build 10 Gigabit switches. I believe this has been well and truly confirmed by now.

Here are the inside specs on Google’s 10 Gigabit Switch

Broadcom 20-port 10GE switch silicon (BCM56800) & SFP+ based interconnect.
Google is building this to their exact needs, using non-standard solutions.
Google may be using about 5,000 ports per month

Cisco cannot be happy about this.

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Amazon launch the ‘Kindle’

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:43:01 +0000

Amazon have taken a major leap in releasing the ‘Kindle’.

So let’s take a look - it’s a 6 inch, 800 x 600 resolution device with 256Mb of internal storage, a very small thumb keyboard cursor bar, a scroll wheel, 3.5mm headphone connection, mini USB port, SD slot and also EV-DO data.

On the whole I can’t see myself adopting e-books over good old fashioned paperbacks. Amazon are going to have a hard task getting this one out the door!

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Do you need protection for your Treo smartphone? Treo den has a huge selection of Treo cases including leather, flip case and aluminum cases.

Aaron Gershfield - Network Engineer, Sydney Australia

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:21:47 +0000

Hi,

My name is Aaron Gershfield, I’m a network engineer based in Sydney Australia.

Currently I’m working for a major telco, where I am responsible for ensuring we deliver 99.999% SLAs across our network. I’m responsible for the layer 3 infrastructure core, and also all our wireless infrastructure.

I’ve setup this blog so that I can review and comment on a lot of the products, systems and processes that we are using as I’m sure this will benefit someone else in the industry.

Aaron Gershfield
Network Engineer