In my previous blog post I looked at the benefits and limitations of SPAN ports. SPAN or mirror ports are a convenient way of getting access to network packets without having to be inline like a firewall. Once you have got your network packet source in place, the next question is, what applications are available […]
This recent article from IEEE Spectrum discusses our impression that as we age, we lose the ability to learn quickly — fluid intelligence, as it’s called. An accompanying chart shows this in some degree through the skill of chess players across a range of ages. There’s something suspicious about this chart, though, and it’s pairing […]
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How does the internet work - We know what is networking
Simply said, time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter. Jitter is specific issue that normally exists in packet networks and this phenomenon is usually not causing any communication problems. TCP/IP is responsible for dealing with the jitter impact on communication. On the other hand, in VoIP network environment, or better […]
I just ran across a pointer to this research on Bruce Schneier’s blog: Networking system components that are well-behaved in separation may create counter-intuitive emergent system behaviors, which are not well-behaved at all. For example, cooperative behavior might unexpectedly break down as the connectivity of interaction partners grows. “Applying this to the global network of […]
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Announcing the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia from Mrs. Y featuring the case of Terry Childs, the infamous former Network Administrator arrested for refusing to provide passwords for San Francisco’s FiberWAN system to management. She’s joined by Jeana Pieralde, Chief Security Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, along with two members of the […]
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I have worked in technology full-time for nearly fifteen years. Prior to this, I built PCs and was somewhat of a technical hobbyist. Occasionally, I am faced with the question, “How does one get into computers?” or “How can I get into computer networking?” There are many paths and correct answers to these questions. The […]
The post The Technical Mind appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Stewart.
Today we are announcing our new 7500E modular switch, the fastest and densest modular switching platform in the industry, enabling cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines.
The Arista 7500E is a remarkable 3X better than its predecessor. It offers 3X the number of ports, 3X the fabric bandwidth, 3X the packet buffer, 3X the supervisor performance, and 3X the power-efficiency, without a chassis or power upgrade.
But the real story of the 7500E it that it enables customers to build a universal cloud networking infrastructure for the worldʼs largest data centers that can handle even the most demanding workloads with ease.
Letʼs take a look inside this remarkable new switch.
The 7500E has 3.84 Tbps fabric bandwidth per slot, or 30 Tbps per 8-slot chassis, three times the bandwidth of the first generation 7500.
The 7508E supports 1152 10G, 288 40G or 96 100G wire-speed ports in a 11U chassis, the highest port density in the industry and three times the number of ports of the first generation 7500.
The 7500E comes with a world-record 144 GByte of packet buffer per 8-slot chassis, Continue reading
I have to admit I’m a big VMware fanboy. Wanting to master the art of virtualization, I’ve set out to build out a personal lab. My primary goal is to work my way up to the VCDX certification. The curious thing about building a VMware lab is that all parts need to be on the […]
The post VMware VCDX Lab: The Hardware appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Douglas Hanks.
A community show where we get Brent Salisbury and Ivan Pepelnjak to talk about the events of the last few weeks. In the end, the only thing we seemed to cover was OpenDaylight, ONS and various SDN topics. Open Networking Summit – Brent reports in. Talking SDN and OpenDaylight Ivan asks “will you install open […]
The post Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
Wow the title of this post is a mouthful.
Similar to my previous post on the Nexus 2000 (Nexus 2000 Model Number Cheat Sheet), this post will explain what the letters and numbers mean in the Nexus 7000 IO module part numbers. This will allow you to quickly identify the characteristics of the card just by looking at the part number which in turn should help you out as you're building BOMs and picking the right card for the job.
Update July 2, 2013: Updated to reflect release of the Nexus 7700 and F3 modules.
Dinner with His Toadishness, Derick Winkworth, the other night rolled into a 3+ hour discussion of avant garde ways to do networking. One of the adjunct topics that came up was that of ownership within IT. Ownership is a complex problem in the data center, because there’s many complex technologies at work. No one single […]
The post A Data Center Delivers Apps – So Shouldn’t We Monitor App Delivery? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Yesterday, a “breaking news” tweet at 1:07 PM EDT from the Associated Press reported that two explosions had occurred at the White House and President Obama had been injured. The news immediately sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 143 points, as this graph at the London Telegraph shows. There’s also a lovely animated display […]
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You have recently joined a new company that still uses Frame Relay. For monitoring purposes, you implement a script that pings all interfaces of a router, but you notice that some of them are not ping-able. Why ?
You say, “It works – don’t fix it.” I hear, “It works – don’t touch it.” I’m also thinking that if you don’t touch it, then it’s never upgraded or changed. Is a static, unchanged network the best you can do to support your business ? Are you happy with just doing more of the same […]
The post It Works and It Should Be Better appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
