Where packets meet perspective.

Having spent nearly three decades inside service provider and enterprise networks, I now help operators and the businesses that depend on them make better infrastructure decisions. Transport strategy, peering, automation and the carrier contracts nobody has time to read.

What I do

Fewer surprises.
Better decisions.

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Build for what is next

Architecture, capacity, automation and where AI actually helps. A read on real solutions for real networks.

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Spend less on connectivity

Transport, peering and carrier contracts. I quote across carriers, negotiate the terms and stay on the account for the life of it.

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Get a straight second opinion

Designs, vendor proposals, post-incident reviews. No product to sell you and no reason to tell you what you want to hear.

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Lightyear @ NFD40: Buying Bandwidth Shouldn't Suck

Lightyear @ NFD40: Buying Bandwidth Shouldn't Suck

Every network engineer doing this work for any length of time has a telecom procurement horror story. The circuit that took six months to install. The carrier that quoted three different prices before even getting the address right. The circuit that auto-