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Why I Do Not Use Underscores in DNS, A ‘War’ Story.

My ‘do not use underscores in DNS’ war story: Back in the day when NetBIOS name services (NBNS) mattered more than DNS, people would put names on the their machines so they could access the shared resources from the Windows finder. Developers and certain types of ‘security professionals’ who have opinions on underscores vs dashes […]

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Why Cisco is Not A Networking Company Anymore

I wanted to put down some evidence on why Cisco is more than a networking company. I consider this useful information for people who are planning their careers and particularly those peopel who are investing in certification programs. Its my view that Cisco has outgrown networking. Some reasons are: Cisco no longer dominates the networking […]

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Cisco Sees Service Providers as Three Sales Models

Reading a transcript where Jonathan Davidson is taking to analysts and investors at the recent conference. He is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Business since August 2018.  He stats that the SP market is three distinct businesses” What SP buy for their own networks What SP consume as corporate IT […]

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Heavy Networking 451: Intelligent Network Automation And Intent Engineering With Gluware (Sponsored)

On today's Heavy Networking, recorded live at Gluware Intent 19, the Packet Pushers dive into network automation, learn about sponsor Gluware's capability to bring automation into brownfield environments and derive business intent from existing networks, and explore real-world use cases from customers Merck and Terracon.

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Datanauts 165: IT Roundtable – Chaos Engineering And More From Google Next 19

Today's Datanauts podcast was recorded live at Google Next 19. Greg Ferro, Packet Pushers cofounder, comandeers the Datanauts bridge for a roundtable conversation with three IT pros on a variety of topics, including chaos engineering, business intelligence, cloud migration, and more.

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Heavy Networking 448: An Inside Look At What’s New In Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today's Heavy Networking podcast is a sponsored conversation with Juniper Networks on what's new in its Contrail SD-WAN, including a cloud-managed option. We also examine competitive differentiators such as scale, and how Juniper is integrating Mist with Contrail SD-WAN to enable SD-Branch.

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