About Ethan Banks

Ethan is a network engineer, blogger, editor, freelance writer, and CCIE #20655. He's also a host on the Packet Pushers podcast, an independent show covering the data networking industry. Find most of his content at PacketPushers.net. He also contributes to CCIE Flyer & Tech Target. Follow him on Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn.

Network Operations – Network Engineer – Amazon

Location: Dublin, Ireland or Seattle, Washington, USA Amazon.com is looking for best-in-class Network Support Engineers … [Read more...]

NetPrivateer – Senior Network Engineer

http://netprivateer.com/srneteng.html Location: Douglassville, PA, USA About the Job: This position is for an … [Read more...]

The Packet Pushers at Cisco Live US San Diego 2012

Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks will be attending Cisco Live US in San Diego. We've bought our plane tickets. We're on our way. … [Read more...]

Show 104 – Is SDN a TRILL Killer?

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Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks conclude their chat begun in Show 103 - Choking on Cookies, but take the conversation in a … [Read more...]

Senior Network Engineer/Architect: CCIE – Service Provider + Core Network Services

http://www.relationalit.com/find-work/search-it-jobs/ Location Manchester, New Hampshire, USA - some relocation … [Read more...]

A New Blog Category: Jobs

Here at Packet Pushers, we've gotten requests from recruiters as well as readers and listeners to offer a job listing … [Read more...]

Show 103 – Choking on Cookies

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Podcast hosts Ethan Banks & Greg Ferro have a good old-fashioned chinwag about things that are on their minds in this, … [Read more...]

Another Teaser From the Packet Pushers

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We hinted at something coming from the Packet Pushers in an earlier post. Well, here's another hint... Wookieepedia shares … [Read more...]

Show 102 – A Layer of Indirection: Is MPLS Tunneling?

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Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks dive into a deep, dark hole of nerdery with Ivan Pepelnjak, Marko Milivojevic, and Petr Lapukov … [Read more...]

Does TRILL Stand a Chance at Wide Adoption?

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TRILL (TRansparent Interconnect of Lots of Links) is considered by some to be the heir-apparent to spanning-tree's throne. … [Read more...]

Coming Soon From the Packet Pushers

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We have an announcement to make...but not yet. Here's a couple of clues!   … [Read more...]

Fatalism Is Sexy: Security’s New Mindset of the Inevitable Hack

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In my industry reading this week, I came across the following notion a few times: getting hacked is inevitable - therefore, … [Read more...]

Stereotypes in the #PacketPushers IRC Channel

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A little light-hearted post for your Friday, this one taking a stab at stereotyping the good people in the #packetpushers IRC … [Read more...]

Brand Inertia: Is Cisco Your Most Trusted IT Partner?

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Jim Duffy wrote an article covering the 16th annual Cisco Partner Summit in San Diego, which you can read here. Jim reports … [Read more...]

Certified Ethical Hacker V7: Certification Review

Overview Like a lot of folks who run campus and enterprise networks, most of my network engineering roles have had a network … [Read more...]