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Network Break 301: Samsung Dials Up A 5G Contract; Broadcom Announces Fast, Power-Efficient New Jericho Chip

Network Break analyzes Samsung's multi-billion 5G contract from Verizon, a new Jericho ASIC from Broadcom, the insiders driving Zoombombing, the persistence of DDoS attacks, and more tech news.

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Heavy Networking 539: Preventing The 4poKalypse With Inter-Domain Multicast

The 4poKalypse is coming, and service providers need more tools in their toolbox to combat congestion in eyeball networks. Local content caches close to the eyeballs (pretty much how we do it today) isn’t going to be quite enough. Jake Holland of Akamai is here to tell us just why inter-domain multicast is important, and why...this time...we can make it work.

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Day Two Cloud 065: Building Your Cloud On-Ramp With SD-WAN

SD-WAN vendors offer a variety of mechanisms to connect end users to cloud applications while incorporating policy and performance requirements. Day Two Cloud co-host Ethan Banks interviewed many of these vendors to understand the architectural nitty-gritty of different approaches. In this episode, he shares the fruits of his research.

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Network Break 300: Cisco Mixes Microservices And SD-WAN; Broadcom Rolls Out Gen7 Fibre Channel Switches

Network Break dives into a new Cisco project that ties microservices to SD-WAN, a CenturyLink outage, new vulnerabilities in IOS-XR, Broadcom's new Gen7 Fibre Channel switches, and more IT news.

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Heavy Networking 538: Running An Open, Automated Data Center Fabric With Nokia (Sponsored)

Today's show dives into Nokia's approach for automating and operating data center fabrics. In this sponsored episode we examine key elements of Nokia's approach including the SR Linux network OS and its Fabric Services Platform. Our guest is Steve Vogelsang, CTO for IP and Optical Networks at Nokia.

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Tech Bytes: Balancing Remote Access Security And User Experience (Sponsored)

Today’s Tech Bytes sponsor is secure remote access company NetMotion Software, and we’re going to talk about how to achieve secure remote access without compromising on user experience. Our guest is Chris Edgmon, Systems Engineer at NetMotion.

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Day Two Cloud 064: Bringing Ansible Into A Windows Shop

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast makes the case for bringing Ansible into your Windows automation toolkit with guest Josh Duffney. Josh is an SRE, a Microsoft MVP, and author of a book on Ansible. We discuss key elements of Ansible, how it fits in a Windows shop, using Ansible with the Chocolately package manager, and more.

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Tech Bytes: UCT’s Global WAN Performance Sparkles With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes is a conversation with Silver Peak customer UCT about how it adopted SD-WAN to boost performance and minimize the downtime of critical business applications. With 21 sites in 8 countries, the company relies on its WAN to support in-house applications and manage the logistics of its global operations. Our guest is James Mccoll, Network Engineer at UCT.

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Tech Bytes: UCT’s Global WAN Performance Sparkles With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes is a conversation with Silver Peak customer UCT about how it adopted SD-WAN to boost performance and minimize the downtime of critical business applications. With 21 sites in 8 countries, the company relies on its WAN to support in-house applications and manage the logistics of its global operations. Our guest is James Mccoll, Network Engineer at UCT.

Network Break 299: Cisco Acquires Audio Filter BabbleLabs; Apple Update Hits Facebook In The Ads

Today's Network Break shares listener follow-up, then dives into a new Cisco acquisition of an audio company; discusses how Facebook is responding to an Apple update that will hurt a part of Facebook's business; covers financial results from HPE, VMware, and Nutanix; and more tech news.

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