Wearing the many technical hats of radio.
It’s funny, I speak to developers and occasionally (jokingly!) get brushed off as an unknowing infrastructure support type. That’s despite writing code for over 20 years, a Computer Science degree that imprinted the “Gang...
Writing a radio station skill for Alexa should be relatively simple. The minimal viable product is streaming audio plays when the user asks for it and maybe we can give some now playing information...
We’ve got a technical problem that sounds simple to fix – what traffic levels are we seeing from a specific set of sources? This traffic passes through a firewall (Sonicwall) appliance and even as...
If you’ve done any work with OpenStack or VMware NSX, you’ve likely come across VXLAN. It’s an encapsulation protocol that allows you to wrap layer 2 traffic in unicast UDP packets for traversal over...
We’re making a fairly substantial change to our core network in the New Year. It’s seeing us move from a flat, L3 routed network to an MPLS fabric. This option was chosen over VRF...
Almost every area of IT has its holy wars. Whether it’s processors and AMD vs Intel vs ARM, GPU with AMD vs NVidia or even operating systems with Linux, Windows and even BSD in...
This might seem a bit of an odd post to be making. Not just because the MLXe router we’re using will probably be painted a very fetching shade of purple in future editions, but...
It turns out that moving zones between views in Infoblox is a surprisingly hard thing to do. The challenge ended up on my desk after we made the decision to operate a separate external...
It was always touted as the thing you wanted to be – the loudest on the dial. It was even said on occasion that it could help improve your coverage in rough patches. This...
Legacy systems are part of any mature technical environment. While I was a combination of both impressed and shocked when recently presented with a SunOS 5.7 box (OS dated 1998!) I had to assist...
Look at the audio files in any professional radio playout system. They’ll likely be linear WAVE files with the associated metadata stored in the cart chunk format. With this information it’s usually enough to...
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