Episode 33 – The Importance Of Breaking Things
Conventional wisdom tells us that a network that never breaks is the most resilient, but practice tells us otherwise. In this episode we explore the value of chaos engineering and how breaking your network intentionally can make it stronger.
Chris Morrow
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Michael Kehoe
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[Sponsored] Short Take – Forward Networks
In this sponsored Network Collective Short Take, Brandon Heller, Co-Founder and CTO of Forward Networks, joins Network Collective to talk about how network verification and modeling are empowering network operators to increase efficiency, reduce mistakes, and shorten the mean-time-to-resolution when troubleshooting network issues.
Forward Networks does this through a complete and accurate mathematical model of the way your network operates, allowing you to quickly assess traffic flows and operational issues in your network without needing to query multiple devices manually.
Having an accurate model of your network also empowers you to validate changes before ever touching your production environment, giving you confidence that the change you are implementing will achieve the desired outcome.
For more technical details, short demo videos, and a chance to try Forward on your network to gain greater insight, head on over to http://forwardnetworks.com/collective.
Brandon Heller
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
Host
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History Of Networking – Ross Callon – MPLS
Recorded in-person at the most recent meeting of the IETF, Ross Callon joins the Network Collective crew (as well as special guest Ethan Banks from Packet Pushers) to share some stories from the creation of MPLS.
Ross Callon
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Ethan Banks
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Russ White
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Donald Sharp
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Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Short Take – Give The Monkey A Smaller Club
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White takes a look at the impact of abstraction, complexity, and scale as they relate to the size and scope of attack surfaces presented to attackers.
Russ White
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Episode 32 – Networking In Harsh Environments
Networking is hard enough when deploying it into typical environments like campuses and datacenters, but what happens when you’re tasked with doing networking in areas that were never meant to support technology? In this episode of Network Collective, Scott Morris and Jeremy Austin join us to share their experience with networking in harsh environments.
We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is bringing S.O.U.L. back to the network. Simple. Open. Untethered. Linux. For more information about how you can bring S.O.U.L. to your network, head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/networkcollectivehassoul. There you can find out how Cumulus Networks can help you build a datacenter as efficient and as flexible as the worlds largest data centers and try Cumulus technology absolutely free.
Scott Morris
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Jeremy Austin
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Short Take – SDN Is Not Devops
In this short take, Russ White talks about the differences between SDN and Devops. Some may consider this obvious, but the differentiation is a bit more nuanced when looking at the goals of both.
Russ White
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History Of Networking – Vint Cerf – The Internet
In this episode of Network Collective, Vint Cerf, networking pioneer and co-inventor of TCP/IP, joins us to talk about the origins of the Internet.
Vint Cerf
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Russ White
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Donald Sharp
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Jordan Martin
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Short Take – Education Is Useless?
Are certification and education useless in a culture of freely available knowledge? Russ White shares his thoughts on the topic and and provides some suggestions on how you should approach education in general.
Russ White
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Episode 31 – Analytics and Security
Security is facing a crisis of well trained engineers. As a result, operators are relying more heavily on analytics to provide security intelligence. In this show, Eric Osterweil joins Network Collective to discuss the use of analytics in security, and the role analytics can play to augment engineering talent.
We would like to thank Core BTS for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Core BTS focuses on partnering with your company to deliver technical solutions that enhance and drive your business. If you’re looking for a partner to help your technology teams take the next step, you can reach out to Core BTS by emailing them here.
We also would also like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is bringing S.O.U.L. back to the network. Simple. Open. Untethered. Linux. For more information about how you can bring S.O.U.L. to your network, head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/ncautomation. There you can find out how Cumulus Networks can help you build a datacenter as efficient and as flexible as the worlds largest data centers and try Cumulus technology absolutely free.
Eric Osterweil
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ Continue reading
Short Take – Networks Without Operators
Intent based and orchestrated networks are the prevailing trend in the industry but is that necessarily a good thing? In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White takes a look at the impact of removing the operator from network operations.
Russ White
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Site Reliability Engineering at the Network Collective
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role often seems a bit mysterious to folks working at smaller and mid-sized companies, where the team isn’t large enough to separate into SRE, operations, and other teams. What does and SRE do, and how is it different from what the average network engineer does? In this Network Collective Off the Cuff, we sit with Michael Kehoe of LinkedIn to discuss the role of the SRE.
History Of Networking – Steve Crocker – The RFC Series
The RFC series has been one of the leading forces in establishing standards-based interoperability in networking. Steve Crocker joins Network Collective to talk about his role in the RFC series and how it came to be what it is today.
Steve Crocker
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Russ White
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Donald Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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[Sponsored] Short Take – Cumulus Networks
In this sponsored Network Collective Short Take, Pete Lumbis joins us to talk about how Cumulus Networks is offering a new disaggregated approach to network operations. There are some common concerns when it comes to a disaggregated model and in this conversation we focus on how Cumulus is making support, operations, and procurement fit within the models and experiences you are used to. All of this while still empowering engineers to take advantage of the power and flexibility that Cumulus Linux has to offer. For more information about Cumulus Linux, visit https://cumulusnetworks.com
Pete Lumbus
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Eyvonne Sharp
Host
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Off the Cuff – Site Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering is a concept that the networking world is coming to terms with. At Interop ITX 2018, Network Collective took the opportunity to sit down with Michael Kehoe to get his take on how SRE concepts can improve network operations.
Michael Kehoe
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 30 – Privacy In Networking
In this episode of the Network Collective Community Roundtable, Tom Hollingsworth and Nick Buraglio join us again to expound on the topic of privacy in networking.
We would like to thank Core BTS for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Core BTS focuses on partnering with your company to deliver technical solutions that enhance and drive your business. If you’re looking for a partner to help your technology teams take the next step, you can reach out to Core BTS by emailing them here.
We also would also like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is bringing S.O.U.L. back to the network. Simple. Open. Untethered. Linux. For more information about how you can bring S.O.U.L. to your network, head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/networkcollectivehassoul. There you can find out how Cumulus Networks can help you build a datacenter as efficient and as flexible as the worlds largest data centers and try Cumulus technology absolutely free.
Nick Buraglio
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Tom Hollingsworth
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Short Take – Complexity Sells
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White examines why our industry continually introduces complexity even though most engineers recognize that simpler solutions are usually more robust and maintainable.
Russ White
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History Of Networking – Christian O’Flaherty – The Latin American Internet
In this episode of the History of Networking, we are joined by Christian O’Flaherty of the Internet Society to discuss the growth of the Internet in Latin America, including the unique role internet exchanges have played in the region, and the resulting connectivity patterns.
Christian O'Flaherty
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Donald Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Off the Cuff – Interop Speakers Panel
At Interop ITX 2018, Network Collective sat down with a few of our favorite speakers from the Network Transformation Summit to chat about the topics they were presenting on. From the emergence and importance of disaggregations and whitebox switching (Peyton Maynard-Koran), multi-gig connectivity for getting more out of your cabling investments (Peter Jones), to business driven design (Denise Donohue), this episode has a little bit of everything.
Peyton Maynard-Koran
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Peter Jones
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Denise Donohue
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Jordan Martin
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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