About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

Show 146 – Arista 7500 – One Switch to Rule Them All – Sponsored

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Arista is shipping a serious round of upgrades for the 7500 switch chassis. In this sponsored podcast, Doug Gourlay from … [Read more...]

Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN

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A community show where we get Brent Salisbury and Ivan Pepelnjak to talk about the events of the last few weeks. In the end, … [Read more...]

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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, … [Read more...]

Nuage Networks VSP – Delivers SDN in a Big Way – White Paper – Sponsored

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Nuage Networks announces their Virtualised Services Platform and demonstrates that software defined networking (SDN) is … [Read more...]

Show 142 – Huawei – End to End SDN Strategy – Sponsored

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SDN innovation has been primarily focused on the data center where centralized network programmability has been shown to be … [Read more...]

PQ Show 23 – OpenFlow and SDN – ONF Testing & Interoperability With Michael Haugh

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In this show we speak with Michael Haugh, the chairperson of Testing and Interoperability Working Group … [Read more...]

Show 140 – Introduction OpenStack and Quantum Projects

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OpenStack is progressively developing into a product that networking needs to be a part of. One way to describe OpenStack is … [Read more...]

Show 136: Avaya – Considerations for Turning Your Network Into an Ethernet Fabric – Sponsored

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We’ve done a few shows now on Ethernet Fabrics where we have been getting deep into the different technology options and … [Read more...]

PQ Show 22 – Spirent Axon – Rapid Answers to the Question, “Will It Work?” – Sponsored

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Spirent Axon: Rapid answers to the question, “Will it work?” The average enterprise needs to do a considerable amount … [Read more...]

Show 135 – Change Control Causes Constipation

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Ethan & I talk about recent events in the industry and their workday. I have a head cold so apologies for the sniffles / … [Read more...]

Show 132 – Spirent Axon Test Gear – Sponsored

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Introducing the Spirent Axon network testing tool for real engineers that delivers proactive testing and validation for … [Read more...]

Show 131 – Golf Cart in My Fibre Tunnel

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Talking with Senior Engineers from University Campus in the US with tens to hundreds  of thousands of Ethernet ports, and … [Read more...]

PQ Show 20 – Open Network Foundation – FAWG Update

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In this show we speak with Curt Beckmann as chairperson of Forwarding Abstractions Working Group (FAWG)  at the Open … [Read more...]

Show 128 – Big Switch Networks Demos Big Virtual Switch & Big Tap

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After all the discussions about OpenFlow and SDN, it's time to look at real products. In this podcast, you can hear Dan … [Read more...]

Show 127 – We Still Don’t Get LISP

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Continuing from a previous recording, this is Part 2 of discussing events that have happened in the last month or … [Read more...]