Podcasts

Show 147 – Avaya Fabric Connect Makes Multicast Simple (Really) – Sponsored

13 May 2013 by Ethan Banks Leave a Comment

For many network engineers, IP multicast routing is evil. Difficult to design, complicated to implement, painful to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: avaya fabric connect, multicast routing, paul unbehagen, shortest path bridging

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

6 May 2013 by Greg Ferro 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: arista, sponsored

Healthy Paranoia Show 12: The Saga of Terry Childs

2 May 2013 by Mrs. Y 4 Comments

Announcing the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia from Mrs. Y featuring the case of Terry Childs, the infamous former Network … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Paranoia, Podcasts Tagged With: cisco, mrs. y, network, Network management, network security, networking, security, worklife

Show 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN

29 April 2013 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Weekly Shows Tagged With: openflow, podcast, SDN

Show 144 – Open EIGRP With Russ White + Cisco’s Donnie Savage

20 April 2013 by Ethan Banks 11 Comments

EIGRP is a distance vector routing protocol that for many years was unique to Cisco networking environments. Created and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: donnie savage, ieft, open eigrp, routing, russ white

Show 143 – Anuta Networks Demonstrates nCloudX Controller – Sponsored

10 April 2013 by Ethan Banks 1 Comment

On March 26, 2013, the Packet Pushers held a sponsored webinar with Anuta Networks to introduce their nCloudX controller to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Webinars, Weekly Shows Tagged With: anuta networks, cloud provider, controller, iaas, ncloudx, orchestration, SDN

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

31 March 2013 by Greg Ferro 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: huawei, openflow, SDN

Healthy Paranoia Show 11: Bro – The Outer Limits of IDS

28 March 2013 by Mrs. Y 4 Comments

Join Mrs. Y, Taylor Banks and esteemed Nerd Captain Ivan Pepelnjak for another exciting episode of Healthy Paranoia! In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Paranoia, Podcasts Tagged With: firewall, ids, intrusion detection, Intrusion prevention system, mrs. y, podcast, SDN, security

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

27 March 2013 by Greg Ferro 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Priority Queue Tagged With: onf, open networking foundation, openflow, SDN

Show 141 – The Pace of Change Is Picking Up – #NFD5 Discussion

23 March 2013 by Ethan Banks 4 Comments

Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks of PacketPushers.net host a discussion with Dr. Peter Welcher, Brent Salisbury, and Stephen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, cisco, juniper, nfd5, openflow, plexxi, SDN, vyatta

Show 139 – Making Your Way Down the Path to Nirvana

10 March 2013 by Ethan Banks 2 Comments

Regular hosts Greg Ferro & Ethan Banks are joined by Brandon Carroll, Josh O'Brien, and Tom Hollingsworth in Packet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: cisco onepk, onf, openflow, SDN, virtualization, vxlan

Show 138 – HP’s Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution

2 March 2013 by Ethan Banks 1 Comment

Show 138 – HP’s Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution [Written by HP.] There has been a lot of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: Bryan Stiekes, Dave Tucker, hp, hp sentinel security application, hp tippingpoint repdv, hp virtual application networks sdn controller, hp virtual cloud networks application, openflow, openstack, Sarwar Raza, SDN

Healthy Paranoia Show 10: Beware the Shmoo

25 February 2013 by Mrs. Y Leave a Comment

Darkness falls across the land, The hacker hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of 0-days To terrorize your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Paranoia, Podcasts Tagged With: conferences, hackers, healthy paranoia, makers, mrs. y, network security, podcast, security, worklife

Show 137 – Gartner Is Not for Sale With @Aneel Lakhani

23 February 2013 by Ethan Banks Leave a Comment

Summary Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks & Greg Ferro chat with Aneel Lakhani, a research director at Gartner about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: analyst, aneel lakhani, gartner, independence

Who is 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.

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Who is Ethan Banks?

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations. Ethan is a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over ten thousand listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is also the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net. Follow @ecbanks.