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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

OpenFlow Switching Performance: Not All TCAM Is Created Equal

1 February 2013 by Bill Owens 7 Comments

The fundamental promise of OpenFlow - that any switches and any controllers can be used to build a network - was perhaps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, SDN, Switching Tagged With: brocade, flow entries, hp, nec, open vswitch, openflow, pica8, tcam

Show 127 – We Still Don’t Get LISP

9 December 2012 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, dynamic, lisp, VDX, virtualization

PQ Show 17 – Reviewing the Brocade VDX Launch With Ivan Pepelnjak

30 November 2012 by Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Shortly after the Brocade launch of the Brocade VDX in September 2012 I got Ivan Pepelnjak on the show to talk about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Priority Queue Tagged With: brocade, VDX

Show 121 – Tweet My Meat – Network Field Day 4

13 October 2012 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

In this Network Field Day episode of the Packet Pushers, we talk about the happenings of the first two days. Because there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, cisco, itest, openstack, podcast, quantum, spirent, tech field day, Testing, ucs, VCS

PQ – Show 11 – Brocade VDX 8770 – Technical Deep Dive

14 September 2012 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

While I was at the Brocade analyst day, I got two of product leads for the VDX8770 chassis into a room to talk about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Priority Queue Tagged With: brocade, switch, VDX

Brocade Virtual Symposium – Soft Core and Hard Edges (Sponsored)

29 May 2012 by Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

The fourth discussion in the Tech Field Day/Packet Pushers Virtual Symposium with Brocade, this video focuses on Ivan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Virtualization Tagged With: ampp, brocade, software, switching, virtualization, vSwitch

Understanding Brocade’s ISLs and ECMP Just a Wee Bit More

11 May 2012 by Michael Schipp 6 Comments

In the Brocade Virtual Symposium hosted by Packet Pushers and Tech Field Day, Part 3: Multi-Path vs. Multi-Chassis shows … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Switching Tagged With: brocade, ecmp, fabric, ISL, trill, VCS, VDX

Show 101 – Brocade Virtual Symposium Part 1 – Sponsored

3 May 2012 by Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Introducing the Brocade Virtual Symposium. In a special video session, we brought Chip Copper from Brocade into a room to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, data center, datacenter, ecmp, fabric, switch, trill, vendor

Show 57 – Fat Cast Free for All – Virtual Workbench

19 August 2011 by Greg Ferro 3 Comments

The virtual workbench convened on August 9, 2011 with Greg Ferro, Ethan, Kurt Bales, Tom Hollingsworth, Josh O'Brien, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: alcatel, blackhat, brocade, cisco, nexus, podcast, security, worklife

Show 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics From Juniper, Brocade and Cisco

25 March 2011 by Greg Ferro 14 Comments

Kurt Bales has a customer who wants to buy a new Data Centre Network and the three main networking vendors (Juniper, Cisco … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, cisco, data centre, juniper

Show 13 – Turning to the Dark Side

25 July 2010 by Ethan Banks 2 Comments

Josh O'Brien, who consults in the world of Data Center 3.0 and blogs at staticnat.com, joins the Prime Pushers for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weekly Shows Tagged With: brocade, check point, cisco asa, it management, juniper netscreen

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.