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Citizens of Tech 002 – Electric Space Trains
Happy 25th, Hubble. Fold my keyboard. Trains didn't (and don't) suck. Batteries are sexy again. Puking in your VR helmet. FM radio on Deathwatch. These and more stories on Citizens of Tech #2!
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IPv6 — Still No Love?
When IPv6 becomes a business problem, and not a technical one, it will start seeing serious adoption in the enterprise. A lack of available IPv4 addresses and expensive aftermarket pricing might start driving North America towards broad IPv6 adoption. Finally.Show 235 – HP IMC BYOD Solution – Sponsored
HP Networking's Juliano Forti & Chris Young talk with Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks about how HP handles BYOD through integration with HP's Intelligent Management Center platform.
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The Present Impact of Open Networking & Whitebox Switching
Dell is all about open networking, and several whitebox vendors had their wares on display at Interop. IP Infusion has released OcNOS, an open networking operating system with a rich feature set right out of the gate. Ethernet switching continues to change. If you are Yet Another Cisco Buyer, do you care? I think you should. There are real dollars at stake. Eventually, it gets silly and/or irresponsible to spend money on Cadillacs.PQ 49 – CloudGenix Application Driven SD-WAN – Sponsored
Introducing CloudGenix, an SD-WAN company that not only reduces WAN management problems, but also makes it easier to enforce business policy in the cloud.
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Citizens of Tech 001 – Knuckle Cracking Felt Animals
Citizens of Tech is an experimental podcast about technology and other things interesting to techies. We know there's other podcasts in this space, but it's something we really wanted to do, so we thought we'd give it a try.
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Citizens of Tech 001 – Knuckle Cracking Felt Animals
Citizens of Tech is an experimental podcast about technology and other things interesting to techies. We know there's other podcasts in this space, but it's something we really wanted to do, so we thought we'd give it a try.
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Show 234 – Design & Build #1 – Network Mergers
This is the first in a series we’re calling “Design & Build,” where we talk through some common network challenges you might face in your network career. Today, we talk about corporate mergers, where the network you know and love needs to work with a network that you don’t.
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Network Engineering In A World Of Data Center Haves & Have Nots
If we assume economies of scale, eventually, it may become silly for a business to own lots of IT infrastructure. Why not lease it from cloud providers? They'll be able to do it cheaper, and besides…they’re experts. I think it’s possible that businesses will eventually migrate most (if not all) of their applications to the cloud.PQ 48 – Multi-Tenant DC with ALE & NEC – Sponsored
Subash Bohra from Alcatel Lucent Enterprise and Toshal Dudwhala from NEC America join Packet Pushers Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks in a discussion about SDN in the data center.
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Improving Mean Time To Innocence With ThousandEyes
In the case of troubleshooting poor performance for an off-site application, improving mean time to innocence is really important. Businesses need to understand whether the problem is in the local infrastructure, in the remote cloud, or somewhere in the middle. This is not especially easy to track down by hand. Manual traceroutes, simple ping tests, and DNS resolution checks are most of what can be done with the average workstation, but in fact there is a great deal more information that is publicly accessible.
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Enterprise WAN Design & Last Mile Considerations
The connection between your office and the central office is what we call the last mile. The last mile, at least in the US, has one big problem: it’s often owned by a single organization.Show 233 – Cisco Nexus Using BGP As A VXLAN Control Plane – Sponsored
Lukas Krattiger, Technical Marketing Engineer and Samir Thoria, Principal Engineer at Cisco join Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro for a discussion of how the Cisco Nexus 9K switching platform can use BGP as a control plane for VXLAN.
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SD-WAN’s Value Prop Conundrum
My interpretation of the SD-WAN value prop can be boiled down to cost savings, simplified operations, and improved application performance over inconsistently performing WAN links. Here's the conundrum. An engineer might instinctively recoil at this sort of value proposition.Show 232 – Big Switch Networks on the State of Open Networking – Sponsored
Rob Sherwood, CTO, Big Switch Networks, discusses the state of open networking with Ethan and Greg. We cover trends in hyper scale networking, the state of SDN's evolution, hardware/software disaggregation, and integrating SDN underlays & overlays. For example, we discuss how Big Cloud Fabric ties into VMware.
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PQ Show 47 – VMKernel Bindings & iSCSI with Chris Wahl
Chris Wahl of WahlNetwork.com and co-author of Networking for VMware Administrators joins Ethan Banks for a discussion of when -- and when NOT -- to use VMkernel bindings when doing iSCSI plumbing between VMware hosts and storage arrays.
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Show 231 – OpenFlow’s Possible Futures with Curt Beckmann
Seen as a unifier and enabler in its early days, OpenFlow has come up against some adoption barriers in the form of silicon challenges and vendor-specific extensions that has resulted in a marketplace of OpenFlow options awash in inconsistency. How does OpenFlow rise above this current state of things? Or does it? The Packet Pushers discuss with Curt Beckmann.
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Is Juniper The Next Cisco?
Juniper flexed its muscles at the Innovation Showcase held in March 2015. What did they talk about? What does it mean for their customers going forward? I perform an introductory analysis.Show 230 – Load Balancing With Citrix NetScaler – Sponsored
Load balancers (or application delivery controllers, if you prefer) have been a topic that come up from time to time on Packet Pushers. In today’s sponsored show, members of the Citrix NetScaler team join hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro in an introductory discussion of the NetScaler load balancer family.
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Show 229 – Network Break 32 – Juniper Innovation Showcase & More
Over-opinionated analysis on data network and IT Infrastructure. And virtual doughnuts.
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