Corsa’s DP2000 Brings Useful Programmability To WAN Switching
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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Snapshot: Certification Exam Attempts
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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CCNA R&S Track Changes: Should You Be Worried?
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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PQ Show 80: P4 – A Language For Programming Switches
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 Announces Ambitious Network Automation Platform
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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Take The 2016 Packet Pushers Audience Survey! (Please)
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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Datanauts 036: Busting The Security Silo In The Data Center
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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Network Break 89: Facebook’s Telecom Initiative; An IETF/LGBT Debate
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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Anki, My New Love
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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Back to Basics: Dijkstra SPF
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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Show 290: From Engineer To Manager
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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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 2 – Strategy
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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PQ Show 79: Building The Digital Workplace With Aruba
This episode of Priority Queue, sponsored by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, explores the ongoing evolution of the digital workplace and the key role that mobility plays.
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Citrix’s New Management Software Plays Nicely With Automation
Citrix announces a new management platform for its NetScaler products, with a YAML-driven automation component for its ADCs.
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Datanauts 035: Building Fortress Infrastructure With Skyport Systems (Sponsored)
Skyport Systems is sponsoring the Datanauts podcast to introduce its hardened virtualization platform to the infrastructure engineering audience.
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Datanauts 035: Building Fortress Infrastructure With Skyport Systems (Sponsored)
Skyport Systems is sponsoring the Datanauts podcast to introduce its hardened virtualization platform to the infrastructure engineering audience.
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Snapshot: Cable Management Survey
Check out the results to our quick survey on cable management!
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Snapshot: Cable Management Survey
Check out the results to our quick survey on cable management!
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Packet Pushers Podcast Gets Techical About VMware NSX with Hutto Independent School District
Based in Texas, the Hutto Independent School District comprises more than 6,000 K-12 students on 8 campuses. When they decided to virtualize their network, they had a number of factors to keep in mind. Would the technology support VDI implementation? How would a virtual network affect business as usual? Could they deploy NSX themselves? Could they deploy NSX alongside Cisco ACI?
If you’re familiar with VMware NSX, you may have an inkling about the answers to these questions. But that’s no reason not to listen to this entertaining episode of the Packet Pushers Podcast, our favorite podcast geared toward IT practitioners and professionals.
In this episode, hosts Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks sit down with representatives from theHutto ISD—Director of Technology Travis Brown; Network Administrator Keith Reynolds; and Network Administrator Christopher Harding—to talk about why Hutto decided to virtualize the network, and why they chose to #RunNSX
Take a listen!
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Network Break 88: Cisco’s Big Quarter, Dell’s Debt Deal
Take a Network Break! On today's episode we parse Cisco's latest quarterly earnings and future strategy, examine Dell's latest efforts to raise money for its EMC acquisition, and more.
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