After I get an interesting if it is not weird question about switch selection from someone couple days ago I decided to share my ideas about this specific and actually important topic. Question was exactly like this; ‘ Which one I should buy 24 port or 48 port switch ‘. What would you give […]
The post Give me one 24 port switch please ! appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Orhan Ergun.
This is Part 2 in a special series looking at the silicon and hardware inside your network device. Although software will be at heart of network innovation, it will still run on hardware and it’s time to expose the internals of our network hardware and understand the hardware architecture inside a typical device. Many people […]
The post Show 187 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 2 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
This blog post is written by Steve Francis, Founder and Chief Product Officer, LogicMonitor. LogicMonitor is a SaaS-based IT infrastructure monitoring company, monitoring the performance, capacity and availability of thousands of different kinds of devices and applications for thousands of customers. Where possible, we don’t rely on SNMP traps – and neither should you. “Why […]
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So your host queries a DNS server to map the name to a location (an IP address), which sets off a chain of queries across a number of servers throughout the Internet. But who pays for all these servers, and how do they make money? To understand the answer to these questions, we need to […]
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Topics Cisco Reveals OpenFlow SDN Killer:OpFlex protocol for ACI offered to IETF, OpenDaylight Researchs […]
The post Coffee Break 7 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break.
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Note: Some of this will be really basic for a lot of folks, but bear with me — in looking at the entire system as a system, there are going to be parts of each piece you’ll already know, and other parts you don’t know. Let’s begin where most users will recognize they’re interacting with […]
News of the Networking Industry in the time it takes to drink a coffee (more or less). This week we are joined by Amy Engineer to parse the news and dig into the business of technology.
The post Coffee Break – Show 6 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
News of the Networking Industry in the time it takes to drink a coffee (more or less). This week we are joined by Amy Engineer to parse the news and dig into the business of technology.
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I’ve been thinking about this question quite a bit over the last year [0] and interestingly a debate over just this issue has recently erupted in the blogosphere (and elsewhere). Vidya Narayanan, who reignited the discussion with her blog “Why I Quit Writing Internet Standards” [1], calls for a “radical restructuring” of the IETF, IEEE and what […]
The post It was Inevitable… appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Russ White.
This is Part 1 in a special series looking at the inside of your network device. Although software will be at heart of network innovation, it will still run on hardware and it’s time to expose the internals of our network hardware and understand the hardware architecture inside a typical device. Many people are surprised […]
The post Show 186 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Vidya Narayana, in a piece at Gigaom, said recently: So, why did I actually stop contributing to standards definitions? The primary one is the fact that while the pace at which standards are written hasn’t changed in many years, the pace at which the real world adopts software has become orders of magnitude faster. Standards, unfortunately, […]
Okay, so we all know some little slice or another of the Internet. But how do all these slices really fit together? How does each player in the system make money by getting your device to connect to someone else’s server to grab content (whether or not you just asked for it)? Let’s put it […]
Through a court-mandated decision, access to Twitter has officially been blocked across all of Turkey. Weather or not this was the right decision; it is evident that people are not happy about it at all. As you already may know, I am originally from Turkey but have been living elsewhere for many years now while […]
The post Twitter War ! appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Orhan Ergun.
Last month I had the opportunity to work with a company to perform an IPv6 pilot. There are a lot of elements to light up for an organization to use IPv6, most of them (but not all) being technical in nature. One of the mechanism I used was ISATAP. In the past I have not […]
The post Windows ISATAP Client, Part 1 appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Dan Massameno.
“It’s impossible to solve significant problems using the same level of knowledge that created them!” –Albert Einstein Outages happen- it’s a simple fact of running any type of system, be it network, server, application, aviation, nuclear, etc. Urs Hölzle, a Distinguished Fellow at Google and it’s first vice president of engineering, plainly states it this […]
The Dell networking team has asked the Packet Pushers to co-host a couple of Interop sessions at their booth. Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks will be at the Dell booth on Tuesday, 1-April and Wednesday, 2-April at 3:45pm. In the Tuesday session, we’ll be discussing the new Dell Z9500. In the Wednesday session, we’ll discuss […]
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