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Pete Welcher
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CCIE #1773. Retired network architect, love blogging (or the sound of my own words?)! Coding, TechFieldDay, hike/travel with wife! Wesleyan U, MIT PhD Math, taught USNA, Cisco training & consulting. Co-founder of NetCraftsmen. Politics: @pjwelcherPoli.
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Article just posted: Pete’s Take: NFD39: Cisco Handles AI Datacenter Flows. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfd39-... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #NFD39 #Cisco #Graphiant #Nokia #Futurum #TechFieldDay #NetworkFieldDay #ECMP #DLB #Spectrum-X #WCMP
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Just posted a blog: “NFD39 Was Great — An Overview”. www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfd39-...
Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #NFD39 #Cisco #Graphiant #Nokia #Futurum #TechFieldDay #NetworkFieldDay
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Graphiant presenting at #NFD39. AI Networking Readiness.
Graphiant AI focus
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I’ve just posted a new blog: Looking Forward to NFD39, www.linkedin.com/pulse/lookin.... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #NFD39 #NetworkFIeldDay #NetAI #Nokia #Graphiant
October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Some interesting links in my new Quick Takes blog: www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #AI #AINetworking #IOT #URWB #NFD39 #Quantum #Pasenen
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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New blog with links posted: AI: Looking for Successes. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-loo... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #AI #AISuccess #AICrystalBall #AIWhatWorks
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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My new blog is up! Title: Review: Two AI LLM Prompting Books. Link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/review... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #PromptEngineering #LLMPrompts
September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Just posted: blog with interesting AI links and some thoughts “Selected AI Topics (August 2025)”. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/select... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #SLMvsLLM #AgenticAI #AIApps
August 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Look what I was up to last Saturday evening
Savanna Bananas in Baltimore
August 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Just posted a blog titled “Book Review: Deep Learning for Network Engineers (by Toni Pasenen)”. www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-r... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #LLM #LLMTraining #AI #AInetworking #BackendNetwork
July 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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New blog: some thoughs on Simplification. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/simpli... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Networking #Simplification #NetworkDesign #NetworkTools
July 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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New blog posted: AI Quick Takes and Musings, July 2025. Some thoughts plus many interesting AI links! www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-qui... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #AIModularity #AgenticAI #MCP #AINetworking #AIInfrastructure
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I’ve posted a new blog with some thoughts about improving inter-team communications. How could we do better? For fun, an Appendix shows many AI-provided details. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/inter-... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #InterTeamCommunications
June 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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New post: Interesting links from the last month plus: Quick Takes, June 2025. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-.... Hashtags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #QuickTakes #QuickTakeJune2025 #AI #Automation #IOT #CVEDatabase #Cisco #Books #TechFieldDay
June 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Just posted: Cisco Learning Update: Some Certs are Changing. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisco-.... #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #CiscoLearning #CiscoCyberSecurity #CiscoDevNet #CiscoAutomation #CCIECyberSecurity #CCIEAutomation #CiscoCertifications #LearnWithCisco
May 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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New blog posted: Some NAAS Thoughts.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-n...
#PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #NAAS #NetworkAsAService #WAN
April 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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New blog posted: About Edge Computing. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/edge-c... #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #EdgeNetworking #EdgeComputing
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I just posted a new Quick Takes blog, with links to some interesting items you might have missed. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-...
#PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #QuickLinks #MCP #ModelContextProtocol #TechStrongIT #RemoteWAN #WirelessProtocols #QuantumComputing
April 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Brad Gregory just posted a blog about AI Gateways: what are they, why would we want them, etc. (Thanks Brad for “co-author”, review editor might be more like it!) www.linkedin.com/pulse/extend...
#AI #AIGateways #AppDelivery
April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I posted the final Microsegmentation Series blog: Pete’s Take: Microsegmentation 04: Building a Security Policy. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/petes-... #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Microsegmentation #Elisity #Cisco #PolicyComponents #SecurityPolicy
April 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Just posted a new blog: Pete’s Take: Microsegmentation 03: Discovering Traffic Flows. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/petes-... Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Microsegmentation #Elisity #Cisco #FlowDiscovery #TrafficAnalytics #NetworkTraffic
April 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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New blog posted: Pete’s Take: Microsegmentation 2: What’s On My Network? www.linkedin.com/pulse/petes-... #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Microsegmentation #Elisity #Cisco #DeviceDiscovery #IdentityGraph #Connectors
March 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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New app delivery post by Brad Gregory revisiting forms of load balancing as a pre-cursor to a coming blog about AI Inferencing for App Delivery. www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-s...
#AIinferencing #AppDelivery #LoadBalancing #EdgeComputing #GPU #Multicloud #InfrastructureStrategy
March 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Just posted: new first blog in a Microsegmentation series. Link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
#PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Microsegmentation #Elisity #Cisco
"Pete's Take" graphic
March 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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New blog: Catchpoint at Cloud Field Day 22. URL: www.linkedin.com/pulse/petes-...
#PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #CFD22 #Catchpoint #ApplicationPerformance
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM