In this episode we discuss whether a switch can achieve desired state without needing a complete reboot on every config change. You can find the inspiration for our conversation on Twitter. Apple Spotify Google Podcast TuneIn CastBox Hosts: Bruce Wallis and Erwan James...

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Remember the episode where we analyzed Juniper acquiring Apstra? Well Michael Bushong, VP of Datacenter at Juniper, was the brains behind that idea – he had a listen to the episode and reached out to have a chat. We had a great time with Mike and talked about of course the acquisition but much more including where AI/ML fits in the network, network disaggregation, SONiC, SmartNics… have a listen!

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We’re back for part 2 with Rob Shakir. In this episode we hear from Rob on his reasoning for developing and using gRIBI rather than leveraging the likes of PCEP. We also chat about the various ways of collecting information from the network to make traffic engineering decisions – BGP-LS anyone? Apple Spotify Google Castbox Hosts: Bruce Wallis and Erwan James Guest: Rob Shakir 3:00 Motivations of...

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Finally we were able to put this together! Rob joins us and shares his wisdom and insight in a two part series where we discuss OpenConfig, gNMI, gNOI, PCEP, gRIBI, P4…and more! Tune in for a lengthy but awesome discussion. Special thanks to Rob for recording this a second time as we were not able to release the first recording we did due to some audio issues. Apple Spotify Google Castbox Hosts...

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Continuing in our network automation mini-series we start looking tools and frameworks – today its NAPALM. Join us for a look into what NAPALM is and brings to the table. Spotify Apple Google Castbox Hosts: Bruce Wallis and Erwan James...

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Yikes a couple weeks and no podcast, really sorry about that, have a listen to find out why…But we’re back with some interesting news in Juniper acquiring Apstra – what does Apstra bring to the Juniper table? What happens when you throw SONiC in the equation? Spotify Apple Google Castbox Hosts: Erwan James and Bruce Wallis...

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Network Automation…a very large topic…so large in fact that we’re going to do a series within a series on this topic. In this episode we cover the areas of networking where automation can and probably should be applied – we don’t talk specific tools or frameworks quite yet, but rather network automation philosophy. Apple Google Spotify Castbox Hosts: Bruce Wallis and Erwan James...

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In this episode of Expedited Forwarding we look into what 128 Technology does, who they were and who they may be under Juniper. We also discuss AMD’s latest acquisition of Xilinx, will they now be able to compete with Intel and Nvidia in the DC? Finally we touch on Marvel acquiring Inphi. Apple Google Spotify Stitcher Castbox Hosts: Erwan James and Bruce Wallis...

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We’re back with an episode of Best Effort! In this episode we address the history and differences between NETCONF and gNMI as programmatic interfaces into a NOS. This was a topic brought to us by a couple of listeners of our BE: Data Models episode, hope you enjoy it! Apple Google Spotify Stitcher Castbox Hosts Erwan James and Bruce Wallis...

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Two firsts in this episode. Firstly its a new series! Assured Forwarding is a series where we will try and help you be the best interviewee possible for your dream networking job! Secondly (firstly 2?) we have our first guest! In this episode we talk to Ramzi from We The Sales Engineers. Ramzi hosts his own podcast as part of his We The Sales Engineers initiative where he aims to bring together...

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