* Questioning where the value of IT is in organizations
* The varied ways carriers price MPLS services
* If an application is deployed across the WAN, all protocol layers must be WAN-aware
* Selective retransmission without fast retransmit
* Dynamics of TCP and selective retransmissions
* TCP, UDP, IP and packet retransmission
* Determining factors to whether a network architecture is worthwhile
* The pitfalls to creating a network architecture
* Why do many companies fail to keep network architecture documents?
* Intelligent vs. random packet discard