network engineering

Huawei Networking Equipment - The Sanctions Reality: What Engineers Actually Face In The Field
Cybersecurity

The Sanctions Reality: What Engineers Actually Face in the Field

A technical analysis of Huawei networking equipment covering VRP configuration differences, SD-WAN architecture trade-offs, MPLS VRF migration challenges, and the multi-vendor integration realities engineers face in production environments.

Mujtaba Khattak 8 min read
Bandwidth Metric - Where Bandwidth Lives In The Routing Table Decision
CCNA

Where Bandwidth Lives in the Routing Table Decision

Bandwidth metric underpins routing decisions and QoS guarantees. This article covers EIGRP composite calculation, OSPF cost, BGP limitations, and CLI troubleshooting — essential for CCNA through CCIE.

Imran saleem 7 min read
Networking Halfway House - The Anatomy Of A Networking Halfway House: Where Layer 2 Meets Layer 3
CCNA

The Anatomy of a Networking Halfway House: Where Layer 2 Meets Layer 3

Halfway house configurations occur when network devices operate between Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions, creating instability and security risks.

Asad Ijaz 7 min read
Srinagar Network Engineering - How Srinagar’s Geographic Isolation Forces Network Engineering Rethinking
AI Technology

How Srinagar’s Geographic Isolation Forces Network Engineering Rethinking

How Srinagar's network engineers built a resilient infrastructure that works despite floods, snow, and geographic isolation.

Mujtaba Khattak 8 min read
Host Website On Serverwala Dedicated Server In Kolkata With High Performance
Networking

Host Website On Serverwala Dedicated Server in Kolkata With High Performance

When a network engineer needs a VPS that can survive a DDoS attack without flinching, or a sysadmin requires a dedicated server in a data center where power bills are measured in fractions of what London or Frankfurt charges, the conversation often turns to Russia-based providers. But most Western buyers don’t know they can get...

Asad Ijaz 8 min read
Denver
Networking

Things to do in Denver

Denver is home to one of the highest concentrations of fiber-optic backbone routes in North America. More than a dozen major long-haul carriers—Level 3 (now Lumen), Zayo, CenturyLink, and Cogent among them—converge in the city, making it a critical interconnection point between the West Coast, the Midwest, and the East Coast. This geographic and network...

Zia khan 5 min read
Halfway House
CCNA

How Stay At A Halfway House Should Be Like?

A halfway house in networking isn’t what most IT professionals think it is. Ask a CCNA candidate what sits between a standard Layer 2 switch and a full Layer 3 router, and they’ll describe a device that does a bit of both but excels at neither. That conceptual gray zone is exactly where the term...

Mujtaba Khattak 7 min read
Srinagar
Networking

Beauty Of Kashmir- Srinagar

The Dal Lake houseboat, connected to the mainland by a shaky wooden plank, has internet. Not just any internet — a fiber-to-the-home connection pushing 50 Mbps symmetrical, provided by a local ISP that routes traffic through a BGP peering arrangement with a Tier-2 provider in Delhi. This is Srinagar in 2026, a city where 14th-century...

Muhammad Khattak 8 min read
Diagram Showing How The Bandwidth Metric Is Used Differently Across Eigrp, Ospf, Qos, And Stp, With Bgp Notably Having No Native Bandwidth Metric At All
CCNA

Bandwidth Metric: How Routing Protocols and QoS Use It

A network engineer stares at a traceroute that defies logic — traffic flows across a 10 Mbps satellite link while a 1 Gbps fiber path sits idle. The root cause isn’t a hardware fault. It’s a misconfigured bandwidth metric. Across every major routing protocol and QoS framework, the bandwidth metric quietly dictates which path packets...

Muhammad Khattak 9 min read
ہواوے
Cybersecurity

ہواوے سمارٹ فون استعمال کرنے والوں کیلئے بری خبر

Huawei shipped 1.14 million 5G base stations globally before US sanctions forced a complete silicon redesign of its carrier-grade portfolio. That number — drawn from the company’s own 2025 annual report filings — captures the paradox at the center of any serious discussion about the Chinese networking giant. It is simultaneously the most sanctioned technology...

Imran Khan 8 min read