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Today's Heavy Networking dives into data center fabrics with guest Russ White. Russ has some thoughts to share about data center fabrics, such as an over-reliance on BGP in the underlay, why terms used to describe the physical topology may not mean…
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Given the arguments from the first article in this series, if privacy should be and is essential—what does the average network engineer do with this information? How does privacy impact network design and operations? To answer this question, we need to look…
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Our Heavy Networking topic of the day is home IoT at scale. We’re going to get into the weeds with two network engineers who’ve gone way beyond lighting and a few smart plugs in their home automation setup. Our guests are Chris…
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The following post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers' Ignition site on November 13, 2020. 5G has long been declared the future of mobile networks by both tech analysts and the popular press, but scratch the surface and IT pros will find…
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This article was originally posted on Packet Pushers Ignition on April 26, 2021. Data center virtualization exacerbated problems for network security designs that relied on a handful of appliance-based (whether physical or virtual) control points, which typically focused on external threats. With…
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Network Admission Control (also called Network Access Control), or NAC, is our topic today. Roughly stated, NAC is about whether to allow a wired or wireless “thing” (a user, a device) onto your network. And if you do allow them, what will…
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Take a Network Break! This week we discuss how startup Rockport Networks brings switchless networking to the data center. Cisco releases new routing silicon in its Silicon One portfolio, and crows about Webex being used for the COP 26 climate summit. VMware…
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Today's Heavy Networking continues our Future of Networking series by diving into the notion of taking a systems approach to networking with Bruce Davie, Ph.D. Dr. Davie got his start at Bell Corp. in 1988, developing hardware for gigabit networking. Since then…
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Today's topic on Day Two Cloud is complex multi-cloud networking. In this episode, we focus on the challenges of stitching together a fabric across more than one public cloud. How do you architect a fabric given the constraints of each cloud? We…
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PacketFabric lets you provision point-to-point and hybrid cloud connectivity as a service. Built on a private fiber network, the company's goal is to let you set up WAN networking as if it was software. The company has colocation facilities around the world,…
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On today's episode we peel back the covers on networking in Azure. We get details on the ability to inspect packets in Azure and the use of third-party virtual appliances, the role of network security groups, the design implications of how Azure…
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Cloud networking has changed in the past two or three years as major cloud providers have rolled out extensive new features and capabilities for connecting users and workloads to public cloud applications and services. Cloud networking is moving well beyond basic IPSec…
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