Show Fundamentals
Can I download the show manually?
Yes. There is a direct download link in every post on the podcast website, just under the media player at the bottom of the post.
Download Delay
We use a podcast hosting provider and the content pushes into a CDN. It seems that it can take a few hours for the CDN to push the content around the network. If you can’t download the podcast about six hours after it’s published, then let me know via the contact page. We will check out what’s happening.
How do you choose guests for the show ?
All sorts of ways. Mostly they are people that we have met or know or heard of in some way. Some are people we know from Twitter or their blogs. Sometimes we will approach a vendor with a specific issue that we want to talk about. Sometimes a vendor will approach us with a topic; if we like it, we’ll set up a recording. Occasionally, people will ask questions or email us and we find a way to bring them onto the show.
What we are looking for is someone who can speak well, is knowledgeable, and has something to add to the conversation or topic at hand.
Content and Topics
Why not Service Provider ?
Because we don’t work in Service Provider companies and don’t know much about it. And because SP has plenty of sharing and content already. NANOG, mailing lists, IRC are all well supported by SP people and companies. If you are in SP technology you will know where to go, or ask your colleagues, to have discussions on SP topics.
Vendor Questions
Why do you talk about Cisco so much ?
Because that’s the product and vendor that we know most about. If you think that Cisco has 85% market share, then about 85% our time should be on Cisco related topics.
Certification
Why don’t you talk more about certification exams and test topics ?
Because 1) it’s boring and repetitive 2) it’s a bit big headed to talk about yourself all the time 3) there is plenty of other content on studying from people who make lots of money out of it.
We wanted to make a show that talks about things that we do everyday that aren’t covered elsewhere. In other words, real life topics and issues.
Time, Energy and Money
How much time does it take for each show ?
The main show takes around 1.5-2.0 hours to record. Then it takes around 2-4 hours to edit down and publish. In addition, we spend several hours a week (not less than four hours on average) lining up guests, researching topics, and writing the show outlines.
Money / Sponsorship / Advertising
We started the show because it’s something that we wanted to do. We felt it was important to support the networking industry by talking about our issues, topics and technology.
We recoup some of the costs of the show (hosting, recording software, microphones, etc.) through vendor sponsorship and advertising. We have guidelines for ourselves to make sure that we handle conflict of interest, and we disclose any interestsor conflicts. Advertisements will be clearly different and disclosed as sponsors. We won’t take cash for comment, or less salubrious forms of sponsorship. Basically, we will act as honestly and directly as possible. We are genuinely vendor agnostic, and don’t play favorites.
Who is Thropos Ltd ?
Thropos Ltd is a limited company, incorporated in the UK. Company No. 05816201 VAT No: 916 8803 01 and owned by Greg Ferro.
We need a corporate entity to work with sponsors. All the costs for Packet Pushers are paid for by the business therefore the business needs to own the copyright to the content because it paid for tools, hosting, wordpress themes, podcast hosting, computers, Internet connections etc etc.
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