This week on Packet Pushers we talk with two VMware NSX customers who’ve implemented NSX in production. We'll look at SDN use cases including microsegmentation and network virtualization.
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On today's Priority Queue, Matt Oswalt shares details about ToDD (Testing On Demand: Distributed), an open source tool he developed for validating network changes.
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Today's Datanauts episode gets into the sticky details of integrating public cloud services, particularly AWS & Azure, with a production environment.
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Netronome has announced server adapter support for P4, a language for programming packet-forwarding devices, to make x86 servers better suited for virtual networking.
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Lots of product news in this Network Break episode, including a new Arista switch, new Mellanox adapters, and a new home at the Linux Foundation for the OpenSwitch network OS
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Teridion provides visibility into the performance of routes across cloud service providers and uses cloud-based networking to send your traffic across the best-performing link in real time.
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In this Packet Pushers podcast, recorded live at Interop Las Vegas, Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks check in on the state of SDN in 2016.
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Troubleshooting and managing a network is much easier when you have the proper tools. Anybody who has been in the IT world for a time likely has a stash of small, portable, and often free programs they use to help in this area. Here is a list of my most-used utilities. To skip the descriptions […]
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Corsa's DP2000 is a big-bandwidth WAN switch featuring a mix of merchant silicon, FPGAs, and a range of programmability options.
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How many tries did it take you to past your most recent certification exam? Here's the results from a quick Packet Pushers survey.
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Learning@Cisco recently announced some changes to the CCNA routing & switching track to now include a taste of software defined networking, among other emerging technologies. With some consternation, CCNA candidates are scratching their heads, wondering what, exactly, this new tech means to them. After all, SDN "still does nothing," at least to hear some folks tell the tale. ;-) And yet, here we have Cisco starting to test on this stuff, right down at the associate level of their certification ladder.
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Nick McKeown joins us on today's episode to talk about P4, an open-source language for programming packet processors, especially switches. P4's goal is to make network hardware more flexible & customizable.
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Brocade has announced Workflow Composer, an automation platform to provision, monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot data center networks. It's based on StackStorm Technologies, a startup Brocade acquired in March 2016.
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Please take the Packet Pushers audience survey. The results will help us improve our content & provide some useful info to share with sponsors.
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Yes, security people can be annoying and their requirements a pain, but security is also essential. Here's how to build better, less adversarial relationships and rethink how you integrate security in the data center.
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On today's Network Break we look at Facebook's initiative to rethink how providers build and roll out services, debate whether the IETF should take a stand on LGBT rights, and more
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Until now, I was never one to use flashcards. I could not see their value, and I was too lazy to actually write things down on a paper flashcard (and my handwriting is horrible). I recently discovered a program called Anki. On the surface, it is just a flash card program, but underneath, it can be as […]
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Since I had been dealing with Graphs for the past few months, So I thought of writing on something basic rather than some new shiny thing. In this post we will take a look at Dijkstra, Pseudocode and code. As we all know that Dijkstra is a shortest path algorithm which is used by OSPF […]
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On today's episode, Amy Arnold joins us to talk about moving from engineer to manager, including lessons learned, mistakes made, dealing with people & more.
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In my last post I discussed the first part of the Architects job namely to create a Vision for the future state of the infrastructure based on business needs and requirements. In this blog I want to go into the second piece of work the architect has to create being the Strategy. The Architect as […]
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