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PQ Show 27 – Cisco XNC Controller – First Look – Sponsored
Cisco eXtensible Network Controller (XNC) can provide greater business agility, through a cost-effective, scalable, Software-Defined Network (SDN)-based approach to traffic monitoring. What is the XNC? What’s it for? Comparing XNC Controller to OpenDaylight. What’s the same? What’s a value-add? What are the northbound capabilities of XNC? Southbound? Let’s give some examples of what we can […]
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PQ Show 26 – Cisco Live Network, IPv6 and Hugs All Round – Sponsored
Guests Patrick Warichet Alain Fiocco @alainfiocco Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch Kumar Reddy @kumarreddy Show Notes You can follow the Cisco IPv6 Lab Team on Twitter at @cisco6lab “Happy Eyeballs” – RFC6555 – Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555 Test your IPv6 http://test-ipv6.com/ IPvFoo – https://code.google.com/p/ipvfoo/ 6lab.cisco.com/stats Sessions on Cisco Live 365 from Orlando, 2013. […]
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Show 151 – Defining Software Defined Whatever
The hosts of the Speaking in Tech podcast join the Packet Pushers to discuss “not networking” just ahead of the Cisco Live conference. CLUS roving reporter Chris Wahl @chriswahl takes part in the melee. Dropping insults on ITIL and ITSM once again. Defining Software Defined Whatever because “My Other Software Defined is Your Mom” Software […]
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Show 150 – Self Congratulations, CLUS and Career Advice
Thanks to everyone who supports Packet Pushers and supports us. We could not do this without you. Greg & Ethan go solo to talk a little about 150 weekly shows Cisco Live US 2013 – Tweet UP – http://networkingnerd.net/2013/05/23/cisco-live–2013-tweetup/ Greg has Published an eBook Greg wrote an eBook on blogging – The Arse First Guide to Technical […]
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Show 149 – Questions on the Sweet Spot for the Network Engineer Career
A common discussion in the Packet Pushers Forums and on the #packetpushers IRC channel is questions about career development, focus and doing a good job. These are always good discussions so Greg invited Giulio Chiappini - @its_gcand Jon Garrison – @jpwgarrison to bring their questions & Greg’s does his best to give a perspective, opinions and ideas on worklife as a […]
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Show 146 – Arista 7500 – One Switch to Rule Them All – Sponsored
Arista is shipping a serious round of upgrades for the 7500 switch chassis. In this sponsored podcast, Doug Gourlay from Arista returns to the Packet Pushers to give an unvarnished view of the new products and why Arista can deliver 100GbE at a new price point while maintaining technical features and capabilities. Show Topics: 1) It’s […]
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Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN
A community show where we get Brent Salisbury and Ivan Pepelnjak to talk about the events of the last few weeks. In the end, the only thing we seemed to cover was OpenDaylight, ONS and various SDN topics. Open Networking Summit – Brent reports in. Talking SDN and OpenDaylight Ivan asks “will you install open […]
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It Works and It Should Be Better
You say, “It works – don’t fix it.” I hear, “It works – don’t touch it.” I’m also thinking that if you don’t touch it, then it’s never upgraded or changed. Is a static, unchanged network the best you can do to support your business ? Are you happy with just doing more of the same […]
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Nuage Networks VSP – Delivers SDN in a Big Way – White Paper – Sponsored
Nuage Networks announces their Virtualised Services Platform and shows that SDN Networking is closer than you think. VSP is a multi-layer solution with a SDN app, controller & network agent with some technical chops. It's derived from Alcatel-Lucent's Service Routers and offers multi-data centre networking that's fully integrated with your MPLS WAN ? Find out more in the very first Packet Pushers Sponsored White Paper where we scratch it's technical under belly.
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Show 142 – Huawei – End to End SDN Strategy – Sponsored
SDN innovation has been primarily focused on the data center where centralized network programmability has been shown to be capable of providing many benefits to the complex and dynamic (on-demand) data center environment. Service provider networks will also benefit from SDN. Traversing a service provider network involves crossing different network types, technologies, layers and administrative domains. SDN solutions, including OpenFlow’s programmatic control, will provide capabilities unique to these service provider technologies. Huawei presents an architecture that expands SDN into multiple, task specific, controllers and domains and extends networking control across all of the service provider network dimensions.
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PQ Show 23 – OpenFlow and SDN – ONF Testing & Interoperability with Michael Haugh
In this show we speak with Michael Haugh, the chairperson of Testing and Interoperability Working Group https://www.opennetworking.org/working-groups/testing-a-interop at the Open Networking Foundation. Michael is a Senior Product Line Manager and oversees Ixia’s Carrier Ethernet go-to-market strategy and product line on the Ixia core and IxN2X platforms. Michael has been in networking for 17 years and […]
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Show 140 – Introduction OpenStack and Quantum Projects
OpenStack is progressively developing into a product that networking needs to be a part of. One way to describe OpenStack is to say it’s an API for infrastructure. OpenStack is a combination of open source plus a significant number of hardware vendors who see contributions to OpenStack as a way of growing or maintaining their own markets and customers.
Customers want OpenStack as an alternative to VMware or other commercial software - not all applications and service need to have expensive software licenses and maintenance. We need to be able to build a core of functional services that can deliver services.
In the future, it seems likely that OpenStack Quantum API will be important. We discuss Open Vswitch and how it’s changing from being a “switch” to including routing, firewall and load balancing features. If you don’t like that, you could consider using Quantum API as a way to consume load balancers from your preferred vendor - the API exists to simplify the consumption of network resources.
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Show 136: Avaya – Considerations for Turning your Network into an Ethernet Fabric – Sponsored
We’ve done a few shows now on Ethernet Fabrics where we have been getting deep into the different technology options and different vendor implementations. Avaya has sponsored this show where we actually interview customers who were early adopters of fabric-based and talk about what drove these customers to implement a network fabric, how they went […]
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