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On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using (scripts, Ansible, etc.) and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy. Itential enables automation across physical, virtual, and cloud domains and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers. Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential's co-founder and CTO.
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After introducing FRRouting architecture, Donald Sharp dived deep into configuration and performance optimizations, including asynchronous data plane, next hop groups, and commit-and-rollback.
After introducing FRRouting architecture, Donald Sharp dived deep into configuration and performance optimizations, including asynchronous data plane, next hop groups, and commit-and-rollback.
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Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.
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During Networking Field Day 22 last week, a lot the questions that were directed at the presenters had to do with their automation systems. One term kept coming up that I was embarrassed to admit that I’d never heard of. Closed-loop automation is the end goal for these systems. But what is closed-loop automation? And why is it so important. I decided to do a little research and find out.
To understand closed-loop systems, you have to understand open-loop systems first. Thankfully, those are really simple. Open-loop systems are those where the output isn’t directly affected by the control actions of the system. It’s a system where you’re going to get the output no matter how you control it. The easiest example is a clothes dryer. There are a multitude of settings that you can choose for a clothes dryer, including the timing of the cycle. But no matter what, the dryer will stop at the end of the cycle. There’s no sensor in a basic clothes dryer that senses the moisture level of the clothes and acts accordingly.
Open-loop systems are stable and consistent. Every time you turn on the dryer, it will run until it finishes. Continue reading
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