On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we discuss the importance of getting the underlay network architecture correct with sponsor Singtel. And we don’t mean just the circuits. We mean the management of the underlay as well.
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This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on April 16, 2021. If you work with network devices long enough, you will eventually encounter a device that is not working as expected. The phone calls from on-site personnel take the same general shape: Yes, the building has no connectivity; Yes, the router is […]
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Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about disaggregated optical networks and what they mean for both customers and carriers when it comes to issues such as service delivery and cost. Our sponsor is Arelion.
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This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on April 16, 2021. We’ve explored the various filesystems on Cisco devices, but you may have wondered how we get new files onto our devices. How do we backup files from our devices? This article explains copying files to and from a Cisco device. Additionally, […]
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This is a blog post that could’ve and perhaps should’ve been written many years ago. Knowing what happened in 2008 might only help very few with their CCIE journeys today. But on that summer afternoon, I made up my mind when the plane made a noisy landing in Tokyo, where many passengers had masks on, […]
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Introduction I’ve been itching to introduce Pulumi to you all for the longest time. I heard about Pulumi in the mid-point of 2021. At the time I was going through Microsoft AZ-700 studies and figured it would be fun to double up the learning and get my hands on Pulumi. Long story short, I really […]
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On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we speak with Opmantek, a FirstWave company. Opmantek's NMIS is a suite of network monitoring applications for managing fault, performance, configuration, compliance and automation. It supports multi-vendor, multi-tenant and multi-server solutions. We discuss the latest features and real-world use cases.
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Fortinet’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) lets network and security teams enforce fine-grained access policies for users working remotely and in the office. It can control access to applications hosted on premises, in the public cloud, or delivered via SaaS. This post walks through the elements required to deploy ZTNA and offers advice on transitioning to a zero-trust approach.
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What makes a technology strategy ? Where do you start ? Are you business or solution centric ? Being a leader means risk and funding, being a follower is simpler and faster. What questions should you be asking when establishing an IT strategy ? Heavy Strategy is where the questions are more important than the […]
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Johna believes that API management is part of IT operations. Greg doesn't understand the question and so we set off in search of answers.
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In the final video of this series on data center fabrics, Russ White walks through a set of considerations you might want to ponder as you design your data center fabric. These considerations include whether to single-home or dual-home a server in a fabric (it depends!), why Russ isn’t a fan of MLAGs in a […]
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Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, which is expanding its cloud partnership by integrating with Azure to help customers achieve a multicloud strategy.
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