Weekly Shows

Show 150 – Self Congratulations, CLUS and Career Advice

12 June 2013 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Thanks to everyone who supports Packet Pushers and supports us. We could not do this without you. Greg & Ethan go solo to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Shows Tagged With: career, cisco, open daylight, SDN

Show 149 – Questions on the Sweet Spot for the Network Engineer Career

2 June 2013 by Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

A common discussion in the Packet Pushers Forums and on the #packetpushers IRC channel is questions about career … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: career, career advice, worklife

Show 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership

27 May 2013 by Ethan Banks 3 Comments

The Packet Pushers are joined by Brent Salisbury of networkstatic.net for a chat with some of the top brass on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: linux foundation, open daylight, Open Source, openflow, SDN

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

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 13 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

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 2 Comments

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

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

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

18 February 2013 by Greg Ferro 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: avaya, shortest path bridging, spb

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.