The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods

It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.

Like anything in the world of IT, TLS has gone through various versions. TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are still commonly used, but TLS 1.3 is really where it’s at. Our guest is Ed Harmoush. Ed’s a professional instructor who’s researched TLS 1.3 and more as he’s prepped for his latest course offering, Practical TLS, which you can find at http://pracnet.net/tls. Use coupon PacketPushers100 to get $100 off this deep dive course from Ed.

Kris Nóva, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio, claims that managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform isn't that far away from just writing your own code to do the job yourself. Kris joins co-hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to challenge the notion that ops folks can't become developers. Kris says they can.

Its not widely that DDOS attacks also cause damage from state exhaustion in devices. A recent study why Netscout surprised me that many engineers are aware of overload bandwidth or routing devices but give less considerations to state exhaustion in application aware devices.

Firewalls, IPS and reverse proxies are subject to overload failure when the internal state is exceeded. This includes server side caches (Varnish, memcache etc) and all this elements should be part of your DDOS strategy.

Roland Dobbins talks about the nature of these attacks and how to implement stateful protection while using stateless DDOS technology.

More Information

Netscout has more information on the topics covered in this tech byte podcast at the following links:

The Protect Firewall service – www.netscout.com/ProtectFirewall

Solution description on Protect Firewall – https://www.netscout.com/solutions/omnis-smart-edge-protection/protect-firewalls

Situational awareness comes from threat analysis and insights. Netscout Horizon provides data and insights into the threat landscape. – https://www.netscout.com/horizon

Netscout Atlas security and response team – keeping you up to date and finding the bad things – https://www.netscout.com/asert

The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell'oro pitches that Education and Government markets will be spending big on WiFi6E - we aren't so sure that campus spending will be big just some spending but Dell'oro told us that government economic stimulus is the driver. Most will focus on distributed work.

Huawei posted 29% revenue reduction as the trade sanctions impact their overall business. A reminder that political solutions are slow if you have to make plans. And in space networking, SpaceX acquires pico-satellite company Swarm for IOT networking.

On today’s Heavy Networking, we drill into VMware’s vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) to learn how it provides end-to-end monitoring, how it uses flow records and other data sources, and its architecture. We’ll also discuss modeling/digital twin capabilities, and applying vRNI to security, troubleshooting, and other use cases. VMware is our sponsor.

In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we discuss IPv6 allocations, which are critical to successful IPv6 adoption. Topics include allocation sizing, address planning, and differences among Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), service providers, and government agencies.

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast walks through a massive outage that hit CDN provider Bunny.net. An automated update triggered cascading failures that essentially took the company offline for two frantic hours. The company shared a detailed postmortem of what happened, and we're joined by company founder Dejan Pelze to walk us through the issues and share lessons learned about infrastructure, automation, and dependencies.

This week's Network Break podcat discusses Marvell's Innovium buy and its impact on the high-end Ethernet market, new Juniper security software for applications, Arista financial results and component concerns, and more IT news.

Today on the Tech Bytes sponsored podcast we're talking SD-WAN with Ascent Health & Wellness, a digital healthcare platform for pharmaceutical distribution. We discuss how the company deployed Aruba EdgeConnect to ensure uptime for critical pharmaceutical fulfillment services, speed up order processing, and provide robust performance for cloud-based business apps.