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Datanauts 150: Living Outside Your Technology Comfort Zone
Advancing your IT career means getting outside your comfort zone. The Datanauts and guest Ken Nalbone talk about overcoming tech inertia, taking technology and career risks, and why it's essential to go out into the real world and interact with people, even when you're an introvert.
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Datanauts 149: Entering The DevOps World With Azure DevOps
The Datanauts dive into Microsoft's Azure DevOps, a suite of online tools to help developers make DevOps a reality. Our guest and guide is Nathaniel Avery, a solutions architect.
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Weekly Show 410: Broadcast Media Using IP Networks
On today’s Packet Pushers Weekly Show, we discuss how the broadcast media industry leverages IP networks, the initiatives behind the standards and protocols, and why it all matters to data networking professionals.
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PQ 156: Wires Matter – A Wireless Engineer’s Detective Story
On today's Priority Queue, wireless engineer Lee Badman shares a real-world detective tale about a troubleshooting problem that took him into dark places involving wires.
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Weekly Show 408: Running Secure Ethernet Fabrics With Extreme Networks (Sponsored)
On today's Weekly Show podcast we dive into Fabric Connect with sponsor Extreme Networks and a customer. We get a real-world look at how Fabric Connect creates an Ethernet fabric across the network, and what that means for operations, security, and automation.
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Datanauts 147: What’s Your Private Cloud Strategy?
On today’s Datanauts podcast, we break down what it takes to build out a private cloud on your premises. Our guest is Rita Younger, National Practice Lead SDDC / SDN and Technical Innovation Group at CDW.
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BiB 055: Meta Networks Brings SD-Perimeter To Talari’s SD-WAN
In this briefing, Meta Networks discussed their new partnership with Talari. Talari is an SD-WAN provider for enterprises. Meta is providing remote access. Therefore, what you’ve got with the Talari/Meta partnership is a full-featured WAN solution.
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BiB 054: Create & Deploy Unikernels With NanoVMs
NanoVMs makes software to help you create and deploy unikernels. In this briefing, CEO Ian Eyberg discussed with Ethan Banks the state of the unikernel ecosystem and how NanoVMs fits into things.
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PQ 154: Design Challenges In Military Networks
On today's Priority Queue we explore the challenges of building military networks, including bandwidth constraints, hostile environments, survivability, training and skills development, and much more. Our guest is PC Drew, an officer in the Marine Corps Reserve and a network engineer.
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BiB 053: Mode.net’s Cloud Private Network For Your SD-WAN
Mode briefed Ethan Banks about their cloud private network. Whoa! Thought Mode was an SD-WAN company? Not quite. Mode partners with several SD-WAN platforms so that it's easy to stand up a tunnel from your SD-WAN forwarders to Mode's private network. That makes Mode a network alternative to private MPLS that integrates with your SD-WAN fabric.
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Datanauts 146: A VDI Design Guide
In this Datanauts podcast, we get a fresh perspective on designing and deploying VDI in the enterprise. Most of the conversation is based on VDI Design Guide, a new book from our guest Johan van Amersfoort.
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PQ 153: DDoS Open Threat Signaling For Coordinated Response
What if DDoS mitigation services could coordinate to thwart attacks? On today's Priority Queue, we explore Distributed Denial Of Service Open Threat Signalling, or DOTS, an IETF effort to do just that. Andrew Mortensen is our guest.
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Datanauts 145: Microservice Meshes With Istio And Envoy
The Datanauts explore Envoy (an application-level proxy) and Istio (management software or the control plane for service meshes), key open-source projects for microservices architectures. Our guest is Christian Posta, Chief Architect, Cloud Application Development at Red Hat.
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Weekly Show 403: Ditching Your Branch Router With SD-WAN (Sponsored)
When you migrate to SD-WAN, do you still need a branch router? On today's Weekly Show with sponsor Silver Peak, we examine the business drivers for getting rid of branch routers, and look at the architectural and operational implications.
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Weekly Show 402: Building A Network Automation Framework
On today's Weekly Show we talk about how to build a network automation framework. Scripting repeatable tasks is just the beginning. Guest Ken Celenza joins us to get into the details about automation principles, data models and schemas, testing code, and more.
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Datanauts 144: Managing Work Stress And Cognitive Biases
This Datanauts podcast episode dives into the realities of dealing with work stress, especially when trying to embrace time off and unplugging from work. Our guest is Eric Shanks.
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PQ 152: An IETF Update On RIFT, BIER, SD-WAN And More
Today's Priority Queue podcast looks at what's new with key IETF networking projects including RIFT, BIER and PPR, as well as standards efforts around SD-WAN. Our guests are Russ White and Jeff Tantsura.
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Show 401: A Deeper Understanding Of Free Range Routing (FRR)
Today's Weekly Show podcast explores what's new in Free Range Routing (FRR), the open source routing stack. Our guest is Donald Sharp.
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Show 401: A Deeper Understanding Of Free Range Routing (FRR)
Free Range Routing (FRR) is an open source routing project. It’s designed to provide a full routing stack that can run on top of a network OS. FRR is itself a fork from the Quagga routing project.
On today’s Weekly Show, recorded live from IETF 102, we talk with Donald Sharp to learn about FRR, understand its capabilities, and get an update on roadmap features.
We also get a behind-the-scenes look at how new features are chosen, architectural issues that can lead to performance bottlenecks (and how to overcome them), and the challenge of making a programmatic interface for a project that was not originally conceived with that in mind.
We also discuss open source communities–how to understand them, the sorts of people that are involved with them, and the role a developer plays vs. a product consumer.
Then we get specific as to how someone with no previous project involvement can vet the community, decide to become involved, and add value to the group at large–even if they aren t developers.
Donald Sharp is Principal Engineer at Cumulus Networks and a lead contributor to the FRR project.
Show Links:
Free Range Routing Home Page – frrouting.org
PQ 152: An IETF Update On RIFT, BIER, SD-WAN And More
Today, an update on some compelling projects at IETF 102. Ours guest are Jeff Tantsura and Russ White.
We review the following projects to see what’s new and understand what problems they’re solving:
- RIFT (Routing In Fat Trees)
- BIER (Bit Indexed Explicit Replication)
- PPR (Preferred Path Routing)
- YANG data modeling
We also look at the state of SD-WAN, which is a bit of the Wild West, to look at standards and interoperability efforts underway.
Jeff is the Head of Technology Strategy at Nuage Networks. He’s also deeply involved with the IETF as the Chair of Routing Area Working Group, the Chair of Routing In Fat Trees, a Member of Internet Architecture Board, and a Member of IP Stack Evolution.
Jeff has recorded with us several times before, most recently on Priority Queue 126, where Greg chatted with Jeff about the future of data center fabrics. Jeff, welcome back to Packet Pushers.
Russ White is a network architect, author, and blogger. Rush also chairs the Interface to Routing System and the Babel routing protocol efforts at the IETF, and is a reviewer in the IETF’s Routing Area Directorate.
Show Links:
Jeff Tantsura IETF work – IETF