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Show 250 – How To Document A Network
A favorite topic among network engineers, documentation is a source of both wonder and horror. Network documentation is difficult to get right. How much detail is enough? How old is that diagram, really? Can't this be automated? Wait, the automated generator spit out *that*? In this show, the Packet Pushers along with former guest Dominik discuss their documentation experiences, good and bad. What have we gotten right? What have we gotten wrong? What's been worth the trouble? What was a waste of time? What did we wish we'd documented before we really needed it?
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Datanauts 006 – Assessing IPv6 Readiness
New IPv4 address space is almost gone from the global market. Organizations need to introduce IPv6 into their environments to ensure uninterrupted business operations with the rest of the world. Yet, implementing IPv6 is not as simple as firing up a routing scheme. How does an organization know if it’s ready? Special guest Ed Horley joins the Datanauts in this discussion.
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Citizens of Tech 012 – Biofuel Pyramid Cables
We start with a discussion of jail time. Jail. Time. And…147 MPH. Yeah. Eric tells the story. And then we hop into our show. Present Doomception: How modders got Doom to run inside of Doom http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/doomception-how-modders-got-doom-to-run-inside-of-doom/ Doom was open sourced in the 90’s. Folks have gone nuts porting it to all sorts of things. Now, […]
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Citizens of Tech 012 – Biofuel Pyramid Cables
We start with a discussion of jail time. Jail. Time. And…147 MPH. Yeah. Eric tells the story. And then we hop into our show. Present Doomception: How modders got Doom to run inside of Doom http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/doomception-how-modders-got-doom-to-run-inside-of-doom/ Doom was open sourced in the 90’s. Folks have gone nuts porting it to all sorts of things. Now, […]
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Scalability Is A Matter Of Context
Scale is a relative term. While every technology needs to scale to some point to be useful to IT practitioners, not every technology needs to scale infinitely. Every technology has a context in which it is viable — where it proves to be the best choice. But in another context, the opposite technology might rise to the surface as more appropriate. Don't be religious about such a decision. Know your business need well, research the technology thoroughly, plan for the future, and choose wisely. Don't pick a tool that solves someone else's problem.Is SD-WAN Simply WAN Optimization Evolved? Not Exactly.
Consumers evaluating SD-WAN shouldn't think of it as a WAN optimization replacement, at least not exactly. These are different technologies, although it might be fair to think of SD-WAN as the successor to WAN optimization. SD-WAN and WAN optimization are compatible technologies, but not interdependent technologies.Citizens of Tech 011 – Prosthetic Phone Diving
In today’s show, we acknowledge our software overlords, let the cars do the driving, investigate Lego prosthetics, deep dive on diving, and more.
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Citizens of Tech 011 – Prosthetic Phone Diving
In today’s show, we acknowledge our software overlords, let the cars do the driving, investigate Lego prosthetics, deep dive on diving, and more.
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Show 247 – ThousandEyes Network Visibility – Sponsored
How do you manage networks you don't control? Our sponsor ThousandEyes joins us to talk about how to get visibility into every network your organization relies on, enabling you to resolve issues faster, improve application delivery, and run your business more smoothly.
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Show 247 – ThousandEyes Network Visibility – Sponsored
How do you manage networks you don't control? Our sponsor ThousandEyes joins us to talk about how to get visibility into every network your organization relies on, enabling you to resolve issues faster, improve application delivery, and run your business more smoothly.
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Show 246 – Design & Build #4 – Data Center Migration
Join us for a step-by-step discussion of what's involved in a data center migration, including new builds, cloud/hybrid options, power & cooling, team preparation and planning, and execution.
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Show 246 – Design & Build #4 – Data Center Migration
Join us for a step-by-step discussion of what's involved in a data center migration, including new builds, cloud/hybrid options, power & cooling, team preparation and planning, and execution.
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The post Show 246 – Design & Build #4 – Data Center Migration appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Citizens of Tech 010 – Vinyl Glacier Robot Earthquakes
On today’s show recorded July 8th, 2015, we cover news from Amazon, review a cheap IP surveillance camera, dive deep on retina displays and how your eyeballs work, and do not discover extraterrestrial life. Also, robots duel, and glaciers cause earthquakes. Among other things!
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Citizens of Tech 010 – Vinyl Glacier Robot Earthquakes
On today’s show recorded July 8th, 2015, we cover news from Amazon, review a cheap IP surveillance camera, dive deep on retina displays and how your eyeballs work, and do not discover extraterrestrial life. Also, robots duel, and glaciers cause earthquakes. Among other things!
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Citizens of Tech 010 – Vinyl Glacier Robot Earthquakes
On today’s show recorded July 8th, 2015, we cover news from Amazon, review a cheap IP surveillance camera, dive deep on retina displays and how your eyeballs work, and do not discover extraterrestrial life. Also, robots duel, and glaciers cause earthquakes. Among other things!
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The post Citizens of Tech 010 – Vinyl Glacier Robot Earthquakes appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Show 245 – What Makes Citrix Netscaler Different? – Sponsored
What features does the Netscaler platform have that make it unique? This isn’t just a bunch of fluffy marketing points. Rather, we opted to focus on some of the nuts and bolts of how NetScaler handles more interesting things like L7 packet manipulation, policy declaration, the use of promise theory, IPFIX extensions, that sort of thing.
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Show 245 – What Makes Citrix Netscaler Different? – Sponsored
What features does the Netscaler platform have that make it unique? This isn’t just a bunch of fluffy marketing points. Rather, we opted to focus on some of the nuts and bolts of how NetScaler handles more interesting things like L7 packet manipulation, policy declaration, the use of promise theory, IPFIX extensions, that sort of thing.
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Show 244 – Design & Build #3 – Dual Stack IPv4 + IPv6
In this third entrant into the design & build series, Guilherme Goes & Jeff Carrell join Ethan Banks for a discussion of running IPv4 & IPv6 dual stack.
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Show 244 – Design & Build #3 – Dual Stack IPv4 + IPv6
In this third entrant into the design & build series, Guilherme Goes & Jeff Carrell join Ethan Banks for a discussion of running IPv4 & IPv6 dual stack.
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The post Show 244 – Design & Build #3 – Dual Stack IPv4 + IPv6 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.