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Getting Started This show is #53, and was recorded on July 12, 2011. In this show, Ethan Banks, Tom Hollingsworth, Greg Ferro, Kurt Bales, and Nicolas Michel talk about the process of preparing for Cisco’s fabled CCIE lab exam. The show gets rolling with Tom checking in from CiscoLive and Ethan explaining how to set […]
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This week Tom is at Cisco Live and in a short sharp show, got a hold of Tony Mattke to talk about the conference and what their experiences are. Somewhere along the line, Tony told us some of his poor experiences with the Nexus 2000 and design tips for a Nexus-centric data centre. Greg is […]
The post Show 52 – Cisco Live Quickie appeared first on Packet Pushers.
The much anticipated show about Juniper QFabric has finally arrived. Juniper QFabric is a different approach to building a switched network core - using what I call "expanded backplane" concept - to create a single Layer data centre switch fabric that uses a different approach from what we are used to by extending the backplane from a single switch to a multiswitch design.
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This show was recorded Thursday, 6/23/2011. Greg was away at Glastonbury, so joining Ethan on the mic are Kurt Bales, Jeff Fry, and Mrs. Y for a design-oriented discussion revolving around the emerging one-tier data center. First – the news. New Zealand Herald 6/23/2011 – Free service hides your online life from prying eyes – […]
The post Show 50 – Collapsing Layers appeared first on Packet Pushers.
A show about Cisco Nexus 1000V where we poke and prod at some of it’s inner workings. 1. Virtual Machine Networking – the Nexus 1000V VEM data plane, port profiles, etc. VSM control plane (Nexus 1010) 2. Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) – VM-level firewall for multi-tenant environments 3. VM-FEX – 802.1Qbg/h comparison – Virtual Machine […]
The post Show 49 – Cisco Nexus 1000v appeared first on Packet Pushers.
This week we talk to Juniper about their Junosphere emulator and make the case for why the current version is very good but not suited for the Enterprise market ( because its actually too good ) and question why they are charging a customer for the hosted service. junosphere, unlike other emulators, is a fully […]
The post Show 48 – Juniper Junosphere appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Value market versus Enterprise Market There is the load balancing market that most in networking are aware of, with vendors like Cisco and F5, and then there is the value market. Load balancers you can get for $2,500-$10,000 a piece (redundant coming in at around $5K to start, USD of course) that have many of […]
The post Show 47 – Load Balancers – Good Thing We Didn’t Step In It appeared first on Packet Pushers.
We just wandered around the topics this week, talking about whatever took our fancy and taking time for some laughs. Ethan has returned to add his voice to the debate, and “Mrs Y” turns up late but more than makes up for it in a crushing review of the security industry. Again. Rumours of Cisco […]
The post Show 46 – Gum Flapping Fun appeared first on Packet Pushers.
This is the recording of the sponsored Arista Networks Webinar on the EOS Software Architecture. EOS is the operating system that runs on the Arista Networks switches. Arista Networks has been shaking up the switching business with their use of merchant silicon and Linux-based OS for a new and unique networking that is completely different […]
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Today its a special show focussing SPB – Shortest Path Bridging. The not quite finished, any day now, IEEE standard to offers a successor to Q-in-Q bridging and delivers L2 mulitpath technology. After a fine rant by Greg on a blog post Rant: Why SPB Doesn’t Get Any Attention, some members of the SPN group […]
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