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Podcast Planning – Got A Great Network Down Story?
Greg and I want to record a “Nightmare Before Christmas” podcast, where folks come on and tell us their most grisly, horrifying network down story. The idea is a relaxed show chatting around the holiday fire, telling war stories, and being glad it’s all over now. So…got a good story? Want to come on a […]
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Show 172 – Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security In The Data Center – Sponsored
It’s an exciting time to be a networking geek, with the introduction of new technologies like network virtualization and established vendors like Cisco jumping into the SDN market. But, what about network security? What happens when you move from traditional data center architectures to virtualization, cloud and SDN environments? Palo Alto Networks builds a next-generation […]
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Show 171 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive Part 2
Cisco FabricPath is a TRILL-based layer 2 forwarding technology that can take the place of spanning-tree. Allowing a fully-meshed layer 2 network to forward traffic across all links, FabricPath helps customers to make the most of their expensive 10GbE and 40GbE interconnects. In this show, Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass, and Ed Diaz discuss real-world FabricPath […]
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Show 169 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive Part 1
Cisco FabricPath is a TRILL-based layer 2 forwarding technology that can take the place of spanning-tree. Allowing a fully-meshed layer 2 network to forward traffic across all links, FabricPath helps customers to make the most of their expensive 10GbE and 40GbE interconnects. In this show, Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass, and Ed Diaz discuss real-world FabricPath […]
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Show 168 – Juniper QFX5100 & Virtual Chassis Fabric – Sponsored
Juniper Network’s Doug Hanks & Satish Surapaneni join Juniper customer (and Kool-Aid drinking fanboy) Kurt Bales in a discussion about the newly announced QFX5100 line of switches with Ethan Banks & Greg Ferro. Along the way, we talk about useful new technologies enabled by the QFX5100, such Virtual Chassis Fabric & TISSU. This is one of […]
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Show 165 – Running Code Is What Defines The Rules
Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro are joined on this week’s Packet Pushers podcast by Teren Bryson, Paul Stewart, and Michele Chubirka. This is a community show, meaning it’s just a bunch of engineers chatting about the industry and our experiences. No vendors looking over our shoulders at all. Here’s what we yammer on about. Topics […]
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Show 164 – Cool or Hot? Lapukhov + Nkposong’s BGP SDN
On this Packet Pushers podcast, hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro are joined by Petr Lapukhov for a discussion about his IETF draft on BGP SDN, co-authored with Edet Nkposong. Guests Russ White and Ivan Pepelnjak also join in the discussion, quizzing Petr about the details of the draft and how implementation has worked out thus far […]
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Show 163 – Open Source perfSONAR Finds The Flaws Impacting The Flows
In this week’s show, we dive into the networking community ocean, and come up with Brian Tierney and Nick Buraglio for a discussion about perfSONAR. perfSONAR is an open-source package of network testing tools that can run in a mesh across diverse network infrastructure, and help determine why you’re not getting the network throughput on […]
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Show 162 – The Bourbonator Rises at #NFD6
The mostly nonsense title masks several discussions we have with many of the Networking Field Day 6 delegates around the following topics: Spirent’s new Avalanche NEXT testing platform for network transit and security platforms. What it is, what it does, and what we thought of the live demo we got. Our introduction to the ThousandEyes […]
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Forum Going Away – But New Things Are Coming
Roughly a year ago, we built forum.packetpushers.net. This was a forum site built on vBulletin. The idea was to give the community another place to exchange ideas, share information, and help each other with challenges. After considering the matter for a couple of months, Greg and I are going to shut the site down. For […]
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Show 155 – Integrating OTV, FabricPath & LISP – Sponsored
At Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando, Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro sat with Nexus 7000 champion Ron Fuller and network design expert Russ White to discuss how, when and why you might choose to deploy FabricPath, OTV, or LISP. In particular, we get into the specifics of what each protocol does, where […]
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Show 154 – A Bit of Swamp Ass to Lift Your Day – CLUS 2013 Community Show
In this community show recorded at Cisco Live US 2013 in Orlando, Cooper Lees, Lauren Mahoit and Colin McNamara join Packet Pushers hosts Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks in a happy chat about the coming world of networking automation. We discuss the following high-level topics. Automation, orchestration and devops in the network is becoming an ever-bigger deal. We apply this in a Cisco […]
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PQ Show 29 – How To Prepare for the CCDE
At Cisco Live US 2013 in Orlando, Packet Pushers co-host Ethan Banks was joined by CCDE program manager Elaine Lopes, CiscoPress author Russ White who was closely involved with the CCDE program creation, quad-CCIE & CCDE Scott Morris, and CCIE & CCDE Jeremy Filliben who instructs a CCDE bootcamp. We discuss (what else) how to […]
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Don’t Alienate Your Co-Workers With Your Passion
We geeks love our tech. Really love it. I mean…really, really get down deep into a technology, decide it’s the best thing ever, and then wave the flag around high. Make the wallpaper. Wear the t-shirt. Evangelize the ignorant. Shout down the naysayers. Mock the competitors. Fan the flames of rivalry. Linux vs. Microsoft. Mac […]
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Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day
At Cisco Live US 2013, we were able to get together a nice group of folks to share their opinions on the announcements we found most interesting. You’ll know some of them from Tech Field Day, an event Greg and I have been a part of several times. This show is good conversation with smart […]
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Show 152 – Nexus Announcements from Cisco Live 2013 with Ron Fuller – Sponsored
Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro are joined by Brent Salisbury for a discussion with Cisco’s Nexus-geek-at-large Ron Fuller about a whole lot of things happening in the Cisco data center product line in this sponsored edition of the Packet Pushers Podcast. First up, we review the announcement from the previous Cisco Live (London 2013) about […]
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PQ Show 28 – UCS Director Overview – Sponsored
In this show recorded in a small little room with a great big fan (which we were mostly able to edit out) in the “Meet the Expert” lounge at Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando, Packet Pushers Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks discuss Cisco’s UCS Director product (formerly Cloupia) with folks from the UCS Director team. […]
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PQ Show 25 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 2
New voices gather in the Packet Pushers virtual boardroom for a discussion of Cisco’s layer 2 extension technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV). Ethan Banks hosts a recording of about two hours worth of content about OTV; this show is the second hour (well, almost another hour). Joining Ethan are first-time guests Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass and Ken Matlock. Jamie, Colby and Ken have […]
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Packet Pushers – Planned Shows & TweetUps at Cisco Live US 2013
Next week, the Packet Pushers are sponsored by Cisco to take the mobile recording studio to Cisco Live US (CLUS) in Orlando. We’ve been planning a lot of shows around what is the biggest IT conference of the year for those of us in the networking industry. The inimitable Mr. Ferro has posted some thoughts […]
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PQ Show 24 – Cisco OTV Deep Dive Part 1
New voices gather in the Packet Pushers virtual boardroom for a discussion of Cisco’s layer 2 extension technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV). Ethan Banks hosts a recording of about two hours worth of content about OTV; this show is the first hour. Joining Ethan are first-time guests Jamie Caesar, Colby Glass and Ken Matlock. Jamie, […]
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