New to networking? Or maybe just new to Packet Pushers? Want to know which shows will help you build a foundation? Here you go. These shows cover major networking concepts, take on emerging technologies, and provide context for what we might talk about in other shows.
Have a listen!
Data Center Fabrics
Weekly 5 – Deep Diving on Data Centre Switching
Weekly 7 – Hiding In Plain Sight – Enterprise MPLS
Weekly 16 – Big Hot & Heavy Switches – Part 1
Weekly 17 – Big Hot & Heavy Switches – Part 2
Weekly 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics from Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
Weekly 44 – The Case for Shortest Path Bridging
Weekly 66 – VXLAN & NVGRE with Ken Duda
Weekly 54 – Speaking with a LISP Expert – Cisco’s Victor Moreno
Weekly 97 – The Future of TRILL & Spanning Tree – Part 1
Weekly 98 – The Future of TRILL & Spanning Tree – Part 2
Weekly 169 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive – Part 1
Weekly 171 – Cisco FabricPath Deep Dive – Part 2
Weekly 210 – SPB Implementation Fundamentals
Show 284: Design & Build 10: Data Center Fabric
Show 340: OpenFlow, Fabrics & Network Virtualization
Datanauts 011: Understanding Leaf-Spine Networks
IPv6
Weekly 21 – IPv6 for the Win! – Part 1
Weekly 21 – IPv6 for the Win! – Part 2
Show 86 – Connect To The IPv6 Internet For Free Using TunnelBroker.net
Weekly 244 – Dual Stack IPv4 & IPv6
PQ Show 54 – IPv6 Adoption Trends With Alain Fiocco
Datanauts 006 – Assessing IPv6 Readiness
SDN, NFV, & OpenFlow
Weekly 40 – Openflow – Upending The Network Industry
Weekly 68 – Practical Introduction And Application Of OpenFlow Networking
Weekly 76 – Why OpenFlow Has Mind-Melting Potential
Weekly 112 – SDN’s Potential As A Displacement Technology With Jeff Doyle & Bill Koss
Weekly 145 – Talking OpenDaylight and SDN
Weekly 148 – Talking With OpenDaylight Leadership
Weekly 164 – Cool Or Hot? Lapukhov + Nkposong’s BGP SDN
Show 194 – SDN Northbound Interfaces with Sarwar Raza + Colin Dixon
Weekly 203 – SDN Policy + Congress With Martin Casado & Tim Hinrichs
Weekly 220 – OpenFlow + Table Type Patterns With Curt Beckmann
Show 291: What Is SDN In 2016? – Recorded Live
Show 335: A Deep Dive Into NFV
Priority Queue 44 – The OPNFV Project With Margaret Chiosi
Priority Queue 50 – Network Service Header (NSH) Deep Dive & Use Cases
Routing
Weekly 89 – OSPF vs IS-IS Smackdown – Where You Can Watch Their Eyes Reload
Weekly 102 – A Layer Of Indirection: Is MPLS Tunneling?
Weekly 134 – OSPF Design Part 1 – Debunking The Multiple Area Myth
Weekly 218 – OSPF Design Part 2 – The Case for Areas
Weekly 144 – Open EIGRP With Russ White + Cisco’s Donnie Savage
Weekly 196 – EVPN Introduction & Use-Cases With Russ White + Jeff Tantsura
Weekly 252 – BGP In The Data Center
Show 285: IETF Routing Area Update
Show 286: Busting Anycast TCP Myths
Show 302: BGP – The Most Successful Virus?
PQ 58: Alibi Routing With UMD’s Dave Levin
PQ Show 89: Implementing EVPN for Enterprise DCI
PQ Show 109: A Look Inside DMEVPN
PQ Show 112: Free Range Routing At IETF 98
PQ Show 115: BIER, RIFT & BGP+SFC At IETF 98
VoIP
Weekly 58 – The Packet Speaks!
Management
Weekly 80 – SFlow And IP Accounting
Weekly 108 – Wireshark With Gerald Combs
Weekly 131 – Golf Cart In My Fibre Tunnel (managing large networks)
Weekly 192 – Logging Design & Best Practices
Weekly 250 – How To Document A Network
Datanauts 033: Making Telemetry A Snap With Intel’s Open Framework
Datanauts 068: System Management With Redfish
Hardware
Weekly 88 – Server Internals And Network Performance
Weekly 186 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 1
Weekly 187 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 2
Weekly 190 – The Silicon Inside Your Network Device – Part 3
Show 315: Future Of Networking – Pradeep Sindhu
QoS
Weekly 125 – Bufferbloat – What Can You Do Today To Suffer Less
Priority Queue 57 – Improve Your Home Internet Performance Using CoDel
Security
Weekly 56 – Securing An Internet-Facing App – Part 1 – Host Hardening
Weekly 61 – Securing An Internet-Facing App – Part 2 – Border Routers, Firewalls, IDS/IPS
Weekly 96 – Hack The Hackers: Fyodor On Nmap & The Security Industry
Datanauts 081: Building Secure Email Infrastructure
Datanauts 086: AWS Identity & Access Management Policies
Datanauts 087: The Future Of Infrastructure Security
PQ Show 92: Network Or Endpoint: Where To Put Security?
Orchestration
Weekly 140 – Introduction OpenStack And Quantum Projects
Weekly 227 – OpenStack Neutron Overview With Kyle Mestery
Show 332: Don’t Believe The Programming Hype
Show 333: Automation & Orchestration In Networking
Datanauts 003 – Opening The OpenStack Stack
Datanauts 058: Kubernetes – A Deep-Dive Introduction
Datanauts 072: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Infrastructure & Automation
Automation
Weekly 176 – Intro To Python & Automation For Network Engineers
Weekly 198 – Kirk Byers On Network Automation With Python & Ansible
Datanauts 010 – Automation For Fun And Profit
Datanauts 019: PowerShell For Data Center Automation
Datanauts 053: Automate Some Of The Things
Datanauts 080: The Current State Of Network Automation & Telemetry
Datanauts 169: Understanding RESTful APIs For Infrastructure Engineers
Storage Networking
Weekly 183 – Storage Network Design
Weekly 214 – Storage Versus Networking
Datanauts 045: The Fascinating World Of iSCSI
Datanauts 093: Erasure Coding And Distributed Storage
Virtual Switching
Weekly 189 – Connecting VMware To The Network
Weekly 219 – Open vSwitch Obtains Ludicrous Speed
PQ Show 85: FD.IO & VPP Open Virtual Switch
Datanauts 009 – Designing a vSwitch
Application Layer
Show 47 – Load Balancers – Good Thing We Didn’t Step In It
Weekly 224 – HTTP2. Its The Biggest (Network) Thing Happening On The Internet Today
Weekly 226 – What Is A Load Balancer, Anyway?
Datanauts 039: The Silo Series – Resource Allocation for Virtualized Workloads
Optical
Weekly 248 – GPON For Campus Use Cases
Layer 8
Weekly 239 – A New Network From Scratch
Weekly 246 – Data Center Migration
Weekly 255 – Future Of Networking With Douglas Comer
What else should we add here? Any episodes you remember as foundational that we should include in this list? Leave a comment!
Last updated 25-July-2017.
