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Tech Bytes: NetBeez Enables Active Monitoring For The Distributed WAN (Sponsored)

NetBeez provides network monitoring for the WAN, Wi-Fi, remote workers, and the cloud. On today's sponsored Tech Bytes, we discuss how NetBeez customer AmWINS Group uses NetBeez sensors in conjunction with a Cisco IWAN deployment to better understand the end user experience. Our guests are NetBeez cofounder Panos Vouzis; and Brad Addington, Network Engineer at AmWINS Group.

Heavy Networking 557: User Experience Is A Full-Stack Responsibility (Sponsored)

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is the topic on today's Heavy Networking. IT folks tend to view user experience from their own particular area of responsibility--networking, security, app development--but the reality is there's a common set of data that IT should consume and understand. Sponsor Catchpoint joins us to discuss its DEM platform and how it measures user experience using metrics that are relevant across the IT stack. Our guest is JP Blaho, Director, Product Marketing at Catchpoint.

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Heavy Networking 557: User Experience Is A Full-Stack Responsibility (Sponsored)

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is the topic on today's Heavy Networking. IT folks tend to view user experience from their own particular area of responsibility--networking, security, app development--but the reality is there's a common set of data that IT should consume and understand. Sponsor Catchpoint joins us to discuss its DEM platform and how it measures user experience using metrics that are relevant across the IT stack. Our guest is JP Blaho, Director, Product Marketing at Catchpoint.

Managers Must Prep Their Teams For Kubernetes – Video

If the boss demands a Kubernetes deployment, and flies in a team of consultants to get the project off the ground, what should the IT staff be prepared for once the consultants depart? That’s the question in this excerpt of Day Two Cloud podcast “Why Kubernetes Is Wrong For You.” You can listen to the […]

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Interconnecting GNS3 Virtual Machines – Video

GNS3 co-founder and developer Jeremy Grossman and networking instructor David Bombal talk with Ethan Banks about how separate GNS3 VMs communicate. You can listen to the full episode, “Heavy Networking 556: The State Of GNS3 For Network Labs,” by clicking this link. Heavy Networking is part of the Packet Pushers network of technical podcasts, including […]

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Network Break 315: Pluralsight Sold For $3.5 Billion; Dent NOS Hitchhikes To The Edge

This week's Network Break discusses the jaw-dropping $3.5 billion purchase of Pluralsight; welcomes a new network OS to life, the universe, and everything; debates whether ICANN was cautious or tardy in implementing DNSSEC for gTLD name servers, catches up on the SolarWinds hack, and more tech conversation.

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Give The Network Designer That Came Before You A Break

When you take over a network as a technical lead, you often run into design elements that make you do a spit-take. They did WHAT? Really? Were they...stupid? Clueless? Stupid AND clueless? Maybe they were, but I argue that you should give those humans that came before you a break. You weren't there. You don't know what constraints they were operating under. Since you don't know those things, it's hard to pass fair judgement. Unfair judgement? Oh, yeah. All day long, and you can even feel righteous while doing so. Super smug.

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Understanding GNS3 Appliances – Video

The labbing tool GNS3 has a capability called “appliances” but it may not mean what you think it means. GNS3 co-founder and developer Jeremy Grossman and networking instructor David Bombal talk with Ethan Banks about what appliances mean in the context of this software. You can listen to the full episode, “Heavy Networking 556: The […]

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Tech Bytes: SD-WAN Helps Medical Imaging Company Get The Picture Faster (Sponsored)

This Tech Bytes podcast explores how SimonMed, a medical imaging company, turned to an SD-WAN deployment from Silver Peak to reduce image delivery time from minutes to seconds, improve performance of VoIP, and begin a migration from expensive MPLS circuits.

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Heavy Networking 556: The State Of GNS3 For Network Labs

GNS3 is a tool for building virtual networks for labbing. Heavy Networking welcomes GNS3 co-founder and developer Jeremy Grossman and networking instructor David Bombal. We cover the state of GNS3 in 2021, including what GNS3 can do that maybe you didn’t know, and what’s on the roadmap.

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Heavy Networking 555: Top Network Design Trends Of 2020

Today's episode is the last Heavy Networking of 2020. In the spirit of an end-of-year reflection, we're going to talk about network design trends from this year, some of which were driven, or at least accelerated, by the pandemic hellscape that was 2020. Our guest is Zig Zsiga, a network designer, architect, CCDE, and instructor.

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Tech Bytes: Accelerating Cloud Applications With Riverbed’s Cloud SteelHead (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes is a customer story with sponsor Riverbed. It’s a tale of latency and its impact on network performance when moving applications to cloud. Our guests from Riverbed are Aly Walowski, whose title is roughly “Cloud Goddess” at Riverbed; and Jack Sweeney, Major Account Manager.

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