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Show 85 – Sponsored – The Span Port You Always Wanted – Gigamon
In this Sponsored show we talk to Gigamon about ” making the SPAN port what it always wanted to be”. In short, Gigamon makes switch devices that allow for powerful ways to capture traffic from your network, then slice, dice and forward it. If you have ever had problem with “not enough SPAN ports” for [...]
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Show 84 – Cisco WAAS – The Sleeping Giant Awakens – Sponsored
Liad Ofek from the Cisco Borderless team joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to discuss the state of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) in this sponsored show. WAAS is Cisco’s WAN optimization platform, competing against products from Riverbed, SilverPeak, Exinda and others. If you’re wrinkling your brow while remembering a bad WAAS experience back [...]
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Show 83 – We Are an Independent Show
This week it’s just Greg and Ethan talking over a few topics. What was intended to be a quick half hour chat for the new year about Packet Pushers turned into a more than an hour on a whole range of topics that interest us, especially on independence and community. Some technical, some industry stuff [...]
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Show 82 – Security Failures, No IPv6, No Network Management – Another Good Year
Guests This week a bunch of new faces to talk about 2011 and it’s many failing: Scott Morris – well known industry figure and CCIE trainer. Chris Marget – Fragmentation Needed who works for a large reseller. And some regulars return: Tony Bourke @tbourke [Data Center Overlords](http://datacenteroverlords.com/ Hosts and Regulars And the blow hards Mrs. [...]
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Show 81 -Tail-F and Network Configuration Management – Sponsored
Network Configuration is still done by hand. Each engineer types in each command after thirty years of “progress”. Does this seem right to you ? Tail-F systems sponsored today’s show to talk about their Network Configuration System and the advantage of using decent software with good quality tools like NETCONF and YANG to make configuring [...]
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Show 80 – SFlow and IP Accounting
During the EuroNOG conference I recorded a conversation about SFlow with Elisa Jasinska who is Senior Packet Herder at Limelight Networks. ( That’s what is says on her business card). Joining me is Ivan Pepelnjak to cover the SFlow basisc and some f the more advanced ideas that you need to be thinking of when [...]
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- Show 79 – Elfiq & Link Load Balancing – Sponsored
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- Show 77 – Cisco Nexus 1000V and VXLAN With Han Yang and Victor Moreno – Sponsored
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- Show 75 – Introducing Aerohive Branch on Demand – Sponsored
- Show 74 – Juniper Certification Track Update
- Show 73 – Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall – Sponsored
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- Show 71 – OpenFlow, SDN, Controllers, VXLAN & Wishing for Fishes
- Show 70 – Preview of Tech Field Day and OpenFlow Symposium
- Show 69 – HP Talks Tech at Interop NYC on OpenFlow, Optical Backplanes, IRF, and IPv6
- Show 68 – Practical Introduction and Application of OpenFlow Networking
- Show 67 – CCIE Security Track Update With Natalie Timms, Program Manager
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