Show 110 – Live From the CLUS 2012 Social Media Lounge

1 July 2012 by 1 Comment

At Cisco Live 2012 in San Diego, we tweeted that anyone interested could gather at the Social Media Lounge to record a podcast with the Packet Pushers and No Strings Attached shows. Perhaps 20 people showed up at the beginning, but by the end I think double that number had wandered up and joined the crowd. The show was recorded by Blake Krone and me. We each had hand-held microphones and walked over to folks as they were speaking. There was a lot of good conversation and opinion, along with some laughs.

What We Discussed

  • Is Cisco trying to redefine the SDN market with their “network programmability” approach?
  • A Cisco app store & community to encourage onePK adoption seems necessary. Or should we (the networking community) build our own code exchange?
  • Are you a programmer? What languages are your familiar with?
  • Why is an API is better than SNMP?
  • There are security concerns around community-based code sharing. What do we do about that?
  • C & Java are the first languages to support onePK. What languages are next, and when?
  • The Cisco Cloud Services Router: opinions & use-cases.
  • Is there a license-limited version of CSR or some other IOS flavor coming so that engineers can build labs in a Cisco-sanctioned way?
  • Will onePK introduce a whole new class of bugs? What about bugs introduced by users writing their own apps?
  • BreakingPoint – cool product seen on the CLUS “World of Solutions” show floor.
  • CCDE & CCAr: why is a CCIE not a prerequisite?
  • CiscoLive365.com – the place to get video and slide presentations from Cisco Live.

Quotable Quotes

  • “Simple is stable.” – Marko Milivojevic
  • “You should not care where your workload sits.” – Omar Sultan
  • “Complexity goes against robustness.” – Tony Mattke
  • “You can take a unicorn to water, but you can’t make it drink.” – Omar Sultan
  • “When it comes to certifications, it’s time we stop drawing a pyramid, and start drawing a tree.” – Brandon Carroll
  • “CCIE is not really that difficult. All you have to do is not fail the test.” - Marko Milivojevic

Voices (in order of appearance)

There’s a few of you I missed because we didn’t get an intro from you when recording. You know who you are, so if you want to be listed, please let me know!

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About 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.

  • http://twitter.com/networkstatic Brent Salisbury

    Talk about a list of sharp folks! Now thats a blogroll. Great show.
    P.s those are a beautiful pair of Unicorns. Tempted to forsake engineering for Unicorn artistry.