The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods

Take a Network Break! Broadcom ships its fastest ASIC yet, the 15.6Tbps Tomahawk 4; Juniper Networks gets a new CTO, enables cloud control of its EX switches; and rolls out new CPE; Palo Alto Networks reports its latest quarterly financials, and we cover lots of listener follow-up.

Vitec Group has transformed its global WAN with an SD-WAN rollout from Silver Peak. The company has boosted the performance of critical business applications, reduced backup latency by 70%, and decommissioned expensive MPLS circuits in favor of DIA. Find out how in this sponsored Tech Bytes podcast. Our guest is Ben Skinner, head of corporate networks and infrastructure at Vitec Group.

Here are some things your SNMP-polling based network monitoring station probably doesn’t do:

1. Consume inbound streaming telemetry

2. Comprehend YANG models

3. Analyze network events and percolate up the things you need to address

This matters because network monitoring is moving from graphing what happened during the last polling cycle to interpreting network events in real time and letting you know what to do about it.

Joining us from Juniper is Javier Antich. Javier is Senior PLM Director in the Automation Software team at Juniper, with a focus on automation, programmability, telemetry, and analytics.

Javier and the Packet Pushers discuss:

* What’s driving automation in the enterprise and why it matters

* The differences between telemetry and traditional monitoring data

* How to make telemetry consumable and relevant

* The role of AI and machine learning

* An overview of Juniper’s HealthBot automation tool

* More

Show Links:

Contrail HealthBot – Juniper Networks

Automated Network Operations – Juniper Networks

Apparently this is a controversial idea.

Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. Aviatrix has built a networking solution that’s multi-cloud capable and leverages cloud-native constructs wherever possible. And they do it in a way designed to make the life of IT engineers better. Our guests are Rod Stuhlmuller, VP Marketing; and Nauman Mustafa, VP Solutions Engineering.

Segment routing is a mechanism for sending packets over a specific path through the network. There are several ways to do segment routing and multiple elements that go into the technology.

On today’s Heavy Networking podcast we explore segment routing as it’s used in a production network; specifically, ESnet, an international network that moves science data all over the world, including data from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe to scientists in the United States.

Our guest is Nick Buraglio, a network engineer at ESnet and a regular guest on Packet Pushers.

We discuss:

* The flavor of segment routing that ESnet went with and why (SR-MPLS vs. SRv6)

* The problems ESnet was trying to solve

* Whether segment routing reduces complexity

* The role of IS-IS in the network

* Path Computation Element (PCE) and how forwarding decisions are made

* More

Sponsor: Cradlepoint

The future of the WAN is wireless, but a wireless connection is only as good as the edge. Cradlepoint unlocks the power of advanced cellular through wireless edge solutions that are delivered the way you consume everything IT: as a service. Reliable. Elastic. Simple to manage from anywhere. Learn more about Cradlepoint’s cloud-managed LTE solutions at cradlepoint.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: Cumulus Networks

Today’s show is sponsored by Cumulus Networks. Build a private cloud environment that is open, modern, and simpler to manage with Cumulus Linux – the Linux-based open network OS that gives you total interoperability, and NetQ – which gives you end-to-end actionable insight from the host to the switch. To learn more about open networking, head to https://cumulusnetworks.com/open.

Show Links:

Heavy Networking 477: Segment Routing Boot Camp With Juniper Networks (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

A Glimpse At Two Approaches To Segment Routing – Ethan Banks

Show 370: Cisco & IPv6 Segment Routing (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

Yet another blog about Segment Routing-Part 1 – Diptanshu Singh via Packet Pushers

Yet another blog about Segment Routing-Part 2 : TI-LFA – Diptanshu Singh via Packet Pushers

Yet another blog about Segment Routing-Part 3: SR-TE – Diptanshu Singh via Packet Pushers

Nick Buraglio on Twitter

Forwardingplane.net – Nick Buraglio’s blog

On today's Tech Bytes episode, sponsor Arista Networks introduces us to CloudEOS, a cloud-native version of Arista's network operating system. CloudEOS is designed to provide a common operational experience from private clouds to public clouds and all the way down into your Kubernetes hosts. Our guest is Doug Gourlay, VP and GM, Cloud Networking Software, at Arista Networks.

Today's Network Break is an Analyst Holiday Party. Instead of news coverage, we examine a few broad topics including whether Kubernetes has legs in the enterprise, the complexities of multi-cloud, the recent financial woes of legacy networking vendors, and more. Our party guests are Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research; Brad Casemore, Research VP of Data Center Networks at IDC; and Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor.

Heavy Networking visits with Snehal Patel. A global network architect for a brand-name retailer, Shehal has been deploying SD-WAN since before it became the biggest buzzword to bet your business’s behind on.

With one of the largest active enterprise SD-WAN deployments in the world, we asked him if he’d be willing to come on the show and let us know how it’s going.

How large? More than 2,800 retail locations in North America alone, all live and in production on an SD-WAN fabric. His WAN connections are a mix of Internet broadband, LTE, and MPLS.

Snehal joins us to discuss his experiences, both good and bad, with deploying and running SD-WAN at scale.

We explore:

* The general environment he’s rolling out SD-WAN for

* How branches connect to HQ and cloud services

* Security and compliance requirements that have to be met

* How ZTP isn’t quite Zero Touch, but still an improvement

* The cutover process and how it’s been refined

* The good and bad of centralized management

* Much more

Sponsor: ITProTV

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Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Show Links:

Snehal Patel on Twitter

ProSDN – Snehal’s blog

Snehal Patel on LinkedIn

From the virtually limitless supply of IPv6 addressing to good vendor support to IPv6-only efforts and beyond, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss what they’re most thankful for when it comes to IPv6 in this holiday episode of IPv6 Buzz.