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Hi Robert. Would you be able to explain the large number of poor reviews your own employees have given your company on Glassdoor and how you plan to improve things? It seems you have a growing management problem due to scalability issues, and have been unable to properly address it thus far. This is a pretty big problem, given it's a tech company, as the tech industry right now is a buyer's market with regards to career opportunities.

1) Have you got a mixed bag of vendor networking equipment, or do you tend to stick to one (Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, PA?)? Any special customizations that have to be made given the environment you work in?

2) Can you explain the networking setup there? Are you given your own IPv4 block, or just have a couple addresses with heavy use of NAT'ing? More specifically: what sort of connection to the outside world do you have?

Cool. I'd imagine that you must be using TDRS (and maybe something from Iridium?) and have a certain schedule for when you can do things...such as this IAMA. Assuming this is true, I'd be curious to know how you plan for these windows, or any related horror stories.

edit: Looks like I might be right: https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/technology/documents/SPSAT%2020161015.pdf

Remembering IPv6 addresses actually isn't so bad. If you can remember the first block, it's very doable. E.g., I've worked on customer networks that are /64. Once you remember the first 64 bits it's not really a problem. You'd be surprised at how much you can remember.