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Citizens of Tech 010 – Vinyl Glacier Robot Earthquakes

On today’s show recorded July 8th, 2015, we cover news from Amazon, review a cheap IP surveillance camera, dive deep on retina displays and how your eyeballs work, and do not discover extraterrestrial life. Also, robots duel, and glaciers cause earthquakes. Among other things!

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Show 245 – What Makes Citrix Netscaler Different? – Sponsored

What features does the Netscaler platform have that make it unique? This isn’t just a bunch of fluffy marketing points. Rather, we opted to focus on some of the nuts and bolts of how NetScaler handles more interesting things like L7 packet manipulation, policy declaration, the use of promise theory, IPFIX extensions, that sort of thing.

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Show 245 – What Makes Citrix Netscaler Different? – Sponsored

What features does the Netscaler platform have that make it unique? This isn’t just a bunch of fluffy marketing points. Rather, we opted to focus on some of the nuts and bolts of how NetScaler handles more interesting things like L7 packet manipulation, policy declaration, the use of promise theory, IPFIX extensions, that sort of thing.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Datanauts 003 – Opening the OpenStack Stack

OpenStack is an open source platform for creating cloud services. Special guest Eric Wright, who leads the Toronto VMUG and Virtual Design Master competition, joins Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks to bring some clarity to this cloudy topic.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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Startup Radar: Fiber Mountain Blends Optics & SDN For Data Center Efficiency

The startup Fiber Mountain aims to make data center networks more flexible and efficient using a combination of fiber optics and SDN.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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Risky Business #373 — Hacking Team gets owned. Quite a lot.

Obviously the Hacking Team breach is the big story of the week and we'll be jumping right into that.

It's a jam packed podcast this week -- we check in with Dave Aitel of Immunity to talk about the impending Wassenaar Arrangement disaster about to hit America. We're also joined by Claudio Guarnieri.

Claudio has spent years tracking Hacking Team's malware to the darkest regions of the planet. For a long time he's been claiming Hacking Team were up to no good, now we know he was right. We get him on to the show for a well-earned gloat.

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Network Break 43

Network Break episode 43 looks at Cisco's OpenDNS acquisition, the OpenDaylight Lithium release, a global IT spending forecast, and Amazon's s2n open source TLS implementation

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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IPv6 “RFP Requirements” – What do you include?

I was working with several peers in Asia over the last few years on big network build outs. As everyone should know, limited IPv4 space means you really need to engineer everything for IPv6 with IPv4 as the “extra” protocol. The real state of vendor IPv6 readiness was a shocker. It was rare to find […]

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The post IPv6 “RFP Requirements” – What do you include? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Barry Greene.

Show 244 – Design & Build #3 – Dual Stack IPv4 + IPv6

In this third entrant into the design & build series, Guilherme Goes & Jeff Carrell join Ethan Banks for a discussion of running IPv4 & IPv6 dual stack.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Microsoft Acquisition Rumors & Drones Vs. People

Tech media speculates on Microsoft acquiring AMD and Docker. And here's why drones and people don't always mix.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

The post Microsoft Acquisition Rumors & Drones Vs. People appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.

Network Break 42

Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Sponsor: Sonus Networks This week’s show was sponsored by Sonus Networks. Sonus wants […]

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Network Break 42

Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Sponsor: Sonus Networks This week’s show was sponsored by Sonus Networks. Sonus wants […]

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns

Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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