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Response: Bare-metal Switches And SDN controllers At Facebook
Facebook has telling people more about it's in-house designed and developed whitebox Ethernet switching based on Broadcom silicon (not sure if it's Trident2 or Arad), their own Linux distribution and OpenCompute standards.
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Coffee Break – Show 8
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Thanks to Steven Hill from Current Analysis for joining us this week. Show Links […]
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Coffee Break – Show 8
[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Thanks to Steven Hill from Current Analysis for joining us this week. Show […]
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Coffee Break – Show 8
[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Thanks to Steven Hill from Current Analysis for joining us this week. Show... Read more »Response: SDN Disruption to Networking Monitoring & Gartner’s NPMD
Gartner has defined itself a new market segment in “Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics” (NPMD) that highlights “solutions from AppNeta, CA Technologies, Corvil, Fluke Networks, Genie Networks, HP, Infovista, JSDU (via Network Instruments acquisition), Lancope, NetScout Systems, Niksun, Orsyp, Paessler, Riverbed, and SevOne.” These are all good companies but these companies mostly rely on hardware […]
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Musing: Cisco UCS is leading vendor for server blades, in the Americas, by revenue
There are two sides to Cisco's success with UCS announced today. It's a great achievement that has a hidden challenges.
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Elephant Detection in Virtual Switches & Mitigation in Hardware
These are notes from a “Elephants and Mice” on elephant flow detection and mitigation in software switches. The result of tests demonstrate that integration between overlay and underlay networks has value. This solution uses low cost networking components and highlights some competitive positioning against Cisco ACI.
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Show 190 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 3
The third and final episode in the very popular series on where we attempt to discover what really happens inside your network device.
Although software will be at heart of network innovation for the enxt decade, it will still run on hardware and it's time to expose the internals of our network hardware and understand the hardware architecture inside a typical device. Many people are surprised to find that CPUs, memory, storage and buses are similar to computers while the forwarding engines are rather spectacularly different.
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PQ Show 31 – Dell, Cumulus Networks and the Open Networking Revolution – Sponsored
Packet Pushers Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks recently sat down with Arpit Joshipura, VP of Product Management for Dell Networking and J.R. Rivers, CEO of Cumulus Networks, to discuss their recent historic announcement to make Open Networking solutions available to consumers worldwide.
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News Roundup: Embrane, Cisco Prime NCS, F5 and VMware
Cisco Live happened in the US this week and it seems like a good time to briefly summarise a few of the anouncements that I saw. Embrane Pivots Embrane announced that they will be offering: …. lifecycle management for virtual network service delivered within Cisco ACI™. The company also announced plans for integrating the Embrane […]
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The Difference Between SDN, Automation and Orchestration
An explanation of the difference between SDN, Automation and Orchestration.
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Response: NFV: Will vRouters ever replace hardware routers?
I'm not the only person pointing out the software routers are reaching unprecedented performance levels.
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Show 189 – Connecting VMware to the Network
I managed to get Chris Wahl to sit down for a while and talk about where VMware ESX and networking connect. In this podcast we talk through the nature of the “VMware vSwitch” and how it’s advanced patch panel capabilities can be integrated with the physical network. Chris is well known figure in the VMware scene and recently […]
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Lying Headline From Business Insider: Cisco Is Going To Crush VMware
Received an email about this article Chambers: Cisco Is Going To Crush VMware – Business Insider. The title strongly suggests that John Chambers said “Cisco is going to crush VMware” but it’s a lie. The closest that the article content gets is: A cheerful John Chambers told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday that his plan to crush […]
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How SDN Has Changed In 12 Months
Early last year I drew a strategy map of all the elements in a Software Defined Ecosystem for a client. I drew another one a couple of weeks back to explain how the current vendor focus on controllers, and specifically, OpenDaylight is changing the nature of the market. The comparison is striking.
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Response: Math and Monitoring
Monitorama has posted the videos from their conference PDX 2014 and I’ve been watching them during concentration breaks. Most of them are very good story telling from real practitioners who have real world experiences. I wanted to call out just two that impressed me deeply. Noah Kantrowitz’s session from Monitorama PDX 2014 talks about using […]
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Poster: Network Visibility Dual State Diagram
Network visibility is difficult design problem. After years of research and customer engagements, Ive been able to prove that network visibility can be reduced to two states. I present the results in this chart.
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Musing: Ethernet Connected Hard Drives, Network Designs
Ethernet Hard Drives are coming. Nothing to do with networking.
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Show 188 – Introducing A10 Networks
In this sponsored show we introduce A10 Networks and it's all about application deliver controllers, load balancers and speed like you have never seen because of smart software architecture.
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You Won’t Get Better Internet Until Old One Is Broken. 500K BGP Routes Good Start.
Some people have pointed out the Internet BGP table is now at 500,000 IP Routes. I'm must say I'm disappointed. If you people don't hurry up and blow this to a million entries, we will never get decent routers and greater bandwidth in the carrier backbones.
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