Community Show – Our Briefing Review for February 2015
In this show, we discuss recent briefings we received from CloudGenix, Light Cyber, VMware, and Meru. We also go on a little rabbit trail about Brocade, because they came to mind. You know how we are.
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HTIRW: The IETF Draft Process
In our deeper investigations of the IETF as a “sample standards body” in this (apparently forever running) series on how the Internet really works, let’s take a look at the IETF standards process. This is a rather sanitized, informal review — I may leave out some steps, or describe things in a way that doesn’t […]
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The post HTIRW: The IETF Draft Process appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
Show 223 – Viptela and the Software Defined WAN
As the industry adoption of SDN gains rapid traction, the Wide Area Network is emerging as the leading use-case (read 2015 is all about SD-WAN). Aging architectures make the WAN the dinosaurs of enterprise infrastructure. While WAN optimization can address a short-term capacity problem, the bigger problems of high circuit costs, network rigidity and poor […]
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The post Show 223 – Viptela and the Software Defined WAN appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Use Rate-Limiting to Alleviate Link Saturation
At some point in time you may come across a scenario in which you notice a WAN link at a branch site is being saturated. You then have to weigh your options to mitigate the saturation because it can cause intermittent network outages and other issues. In this scenario we will use rate-limiting on the […]
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The post Use Rate-Limiting to Alleviate Link Saturation appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Korey Rebello.
Network Break 27
Coffee, doughnuts and networking. A perfect combination.
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The post Network Break 27 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
PQ Show 45 – Talking About PR & Marketing
I was lucky enough to attend the Powering the Cloud Conference in October last year. While I was there I say down with Federica Monsone from A3 Communications to talk about the role of PR, Marketing and Social media. While we poke fun at marketing it is a deadly serious business. We need our vendors […]
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The post PQ Show 45 – Talking About PR & Marketing appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Network Break 26
We are back after the Christmas Break with the Networking News.
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SDN: What Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Need to Know in 2015
Guest blogger Alex Hoff is the VP of Product Management at Auvik Networks, a cloud-based SaaS that makes it dramatically easier for small and mid-sized businesses to manage their networks. Our thanks to Auvik for sponsoring the Packet Pushers community blog today. It’s January and the network industry pundits are calling for 2015 to be the […]
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MPLS TE Design -Part 3
This is a continuation from Part 2 Fast Reroute Why Fast Reroute? Many NSP’s like ACME have traffic with tight SLAs. For instance below is an ITU delay recommendation for Voice. One Way Delay Characterization of Quality 0-150ms Acceptable for most applications 150-400ms May impact some applications Above 400ms Unacceptable ITU G.114 delay recommendations Having […]
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MPLS TE Design -Part 2
This is a continuation from Part 1 Case for LDPoRSVP As we mentioned at the very beginning that ACME provides L3VPN and L2VPN services, which requires end to end LSP between the PEs. But due to scaling reasons, ACME decided not to extend RSVP to the edge routers. This creates a problem as there is […]
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MPLS TE Design -Part 1
In this post we will be exploring different aspects of Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) from a design perspective using fictional ISP as a reference. The intent of the post is to not necessarily recommend a particular solution, but to bring up different aspects involved in the design. I am assuming that the reader already has somewhat […]
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The post MPLS TE Design -Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Diptanshu Singh.
PQ Show 44 – The OPNFV Project with Margaret Chiosi
Margaret Chiosi, president of the OPNFV project hosted at the Linux Foundation, discusses OPNFV in a briefing with Ethan Banks.
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The post PQ Show 44 – The OPNFV Project with Margaret Chiosi appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Confessions of technical interviewer
A technical interviewer, or technically an interviewer. I was interviewed quite a few times since I set of to join the networking crowd, 12 years ago. I also had opportunity to sit on the opposite side, and interviewed people on multiple occasions. Some of my fondest memories of working for my current employer are connected […]
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The post Confessions of technical interviewer appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Marcin Latosiewicz.
Destination Based NAT
Here is the scenario: There is a public server on the internet that you have requested access to. The “admins” that control the server agree to allow a single public IP from your entity/company to access the server. The issue arises due to the fact that you “luckily” have more than 1 Public IP at […]
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The post Destination Based NAT appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Korey Rebello.
Show 222 – Introducing The OpenClos Project
Doug Hanks and Moloy Chatterjee join Packet Pushers host Ethan Banks to discuss the OpenClos project. What is OpenClos? OpenClos is open-source software written in Python that helps stand up a leaf-spine data center. Why? Standing up a DC is a fussy business – lots of cabling, IP addressing schemes, and routing protocol configuration to […]
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The post Show 222 – Introducing The OpenClos Project appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
PQ Show 43 – HP Networking – Beyond Traditional Network Management
This is the last in a series of podcasts sponsored by HP, all recorded at HP’s Discover conference in Barcelona, Spain in early December 2014. The series is made up of interviews and technical discussions with HP engineers and lab geeks about products in HP’s networking portfolio. Ken Gott, Product Line Manager, joins Chris Young, Senior Solutions […]
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The post PQ Show 43 – HP Networking – Beyond Traditional Network Management appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Wi-Fi: The jungle of the Unlisenced
This is a follow-up on the recently published Packet Pushers Show 221 – Marriott, Wifi, + the FCC with Glenn Fleishman & Lee Badman. Let me begin by stating my role in the ecospace: I am currently overseeing the expansion of broadband into Indianfield Co-operative Campground (indianfieldcampground.com) in the town of Salem (A less populous […]
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PQ Show 42 – HP Networking – Location Aware Wireless
This sponsored podcast is another in our series of recordings made at HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Once again, our special thanks to Chris Young for bringing us technical guests and not just fluffy marketing folks. Technical Marketing Engineer at HP Networking Yarnin Israel and Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs Souvik Sen join Packet […]
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The post PQ Show 42 – HP Networking – Location Aware Wireless appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Show 221 – Marriott, Wifi, + the FCC with Glenn Fleishman & Lee Badman
A funny thing happened on Twitter a week or so ago. I saw this message from Glenn Fleishman. If anyone wants me on a podcast to explain why Marriott wants the FCC to give it license to block personal hotspots, let’s talk. — Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) January 2, 2015 I thought that the topic would be a […]
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Transit vs peering: what makes sense when?
Iljitsch van Beijnum, Network Engineer and author, is our guest blogger today with a post about peering sponsored by Noction Intelligent Routing Platform. Most farmers most of the time sell their produce to super market chains. Most consumers most of the time buy their produce from super market chains. Alternatively, some farmers bring their produce […]
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