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ExtraHop is our sponsor for today's sponsored Tech Bytes conversation on traffic decryption. Packet data is a source of truth, and it's vital for security and operations teams to have that truth to find threats and get essential visibility into security and performance. We explore how ExtraHop's Reveal(x) NDR platform uses a variety of decryption techniques to bring visibility to encrypted data center traffic.

Understanding how the Internet carries your traffic is no longer optional.

The Internet is much of your WAN, and the Internet can have problems just like any wide area network. Beyond the Internet, the public cloud providers have their own networks.

Guess what? You need to understand how those are behaving as well.

Sponsor ThousandEyes is here to explain how you can understand Internet performance more deeply. Before we get into that part of the discussion, we’ll review the data turned up by their research arm in the second annual Cloud Performance Benchmark report. The report covers AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, and IBM.

That is, how do the  public clouds perform from a networking perspective? And what does that mean for you as you work with application architects placing workloads in the cloud?

Our guests are Archana Kesavan, Director, Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director, Product Marketing at ThousandEyes.

We discuss:

* Why ThousandEyes decided to develop this annual report

* How it measures cloud provider performance

* What’s new in the second report, such as the inclusion of performance details on AliCloud and IBM

* Result highlights and comparisons of cloud performance across geographical regions

* The introduction of Internet Insights, a real-time view of global Internet health

* More

Show Links:

Cloud Performance Benchmark – ThousandEyes

Internet and Cloud Intelligence Research – ThousandEyes

This week's IPv6 Buzz discusses getting IPv6 into enterprise wireless environments. We discuss what proper vendor support for v6 looks like, evaluate the impact of a lack of DHCPv6 support in Android, why running dual stack is more work than a clean cutover, and more. Our guest is Joe Neville, a technical consultant at HPE Aruba.

As more workloads get spread across private and public clouds, how do you operationalize and optimize connectivity, traffic design, and more? Can you stitch together services that reside in different clouds? What about the edge? On today's Day Two Cloud, sponsor VeloCloud, a VMware company, brings some answers. Our guest is Marco Murgia, Senior Director of Product Engineering.

Internet Exchanges (IXs) perform a core function of allowing provider networks to exchange traffic and data. IXs are key to the functioning of the Internet. However, there are relatively few physical locations in the United States where those exchanges exist.

That means traffic may have to trombone or take non-optimal routes to get from one network to another.

Thus, the emergence of edge exchanges. An edge exchange is a micro-data center positioned at the network operator side of a last-mile networks. That network can be wired or mobile.

The goal of an edge exchange is to provide direct interconnection and traffic exchange between provider networks closer to end users and mobile towers.

Our guest to walk us through the ins and outs of edge exchanges is Alex Marcham, Technical Marketing Manager at Vapor IO.

We discuss:

* The role of IXs in moving Internet traffic

* How edge exchanges differ from Internet exchanges (IXs)

* Why edge exchanges have emerged and the problems they are meant to address

* The Linux Foundation’s LF Edge project

* More

Sponsor: Ixia

Today’s show is sponsored in part by Ixia. Join Ixia for The Network Makeover, a unique event featuring >50 giveaways and tips & tricks designed to help you turn network data into dynamic network intelligence. Register now and then tune in December 2-13 for daily chances to win. Go to  www.ixiacom.com/packetpushers to sign up.

Sponsor: Pilot Fiber

Pilot Fiber is hiring network engineers for support and infrastructure roles! With hundreds of happy customers in NYC, we’re out to prove that a happy team means happier customers.  Pilot is looking for technical pros who share a passion for driving an unprecedented end-to-end experience. Find out more at pilotfiber.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: Tufin

Tufin has pioneered a policy-based approach to network security management using automation and analytics. As a result, you can make network changes in minutes instead of days, reliably and securely. Tufin. The Security Policy Company. Get details at www.tufin.com.

Show Links:

Alex Marcham on Twitter

Network Architecture 2020 – Alex’s Blog

LF Edge – Linux Foundation

Datanauts 135: An Introduction To Edge Computing – Packet Pushers

PQ Show 105: Will 5G Improve Rural Broadband? – Packet Pushers

On today's Tech Bytes, our sponsor is Tufin, and we’re going to dig into the concept of agility in the enterprise, particularly as organizations adopt cloud services and container-based applications. Our guest is Aleck Brailsford, Director of Sales Engineering for the Americas at Tufin.

Brad Casemore from IDC joins Network Break as a guest commentator, and we've got a ton to talk about, including a new campus automation framework from Pica8, new IPS capabilities in VMware's NSX, the release of a limited beta for VMware's Kubernetes wrangler Tanzu Mission Control, an Infoblox acquisition, and more FU than you can shake a virtual donut at.

Today on Heavy Networking our subject is: Stop treating your wide area network like a network.

What does that mean? Is it a Zen koan? If we meditate on the inherent contradictions in that sentence, will we achieve enlightenment?

Maybe not. But maybe we will learn to let go of old notions about how to design and run a WAN as more and more of our applications and infrastructure vanish into the cloud.

Open Systems is our sponsor for today’s episode and our Zen master for this discussion is Silvan Tschopp, head of solutions architecture at Open Systems.

We discuss:

* What Open Systems means by not treating the network like a network

* How SaaS and public cloud affect WAN design

* Using SD-WAN to get around traditional WAN limitations

* Benefits of integrating SD-WAN and security controls

* Potential tradeoffs that come with weighing down SD-WAN with features

* More

Show Links:

Open Systems

Silvan Tschopp on LinkedIn

Heavy Networking 474: Find Breaches With Continuous Monitoring From Open Systems (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

Heavy Networking 466: Securing The Network That’s Everywhere With Open Systems (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

Heavy Networking 446: How Open Systems Integrates Security And SD-WAN As A Service (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

The Day Two Cloud podcast is getting a new co-host, Ethan Banks; and becoming a weekly show! Now you can get deep dives on cloud and infrastructure topics including Kubernetes, cloud security, design and deployment, and more every week.

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are trying to sell SD-WAN services by convincing you that you don’t have the staff, training, or competence to operate an SD-WAN.

On today’s Heavy Networking, Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks pick this argument apart to see if there’s anything to it.

Short answer? There really isn’t.

Greg and Ethan discuss:

* Why SD-WAN is well-suited to being operated in house

* Why MSPs are not well-suited to managing a dynamic technology such as SD-WAN

* The mistaken notion that MPLS circuits are a must-have in your WAN

* Why it’s bad for your business to outsource a developing technology to a provider

* More

This discuss is based around the whitepaper “SDWAN: Get A Managed Service Or Do It Yourself? (Your Incompetence Is My Opportunity” by Greg Ferro. The whitepaper is available for Ignition subscribers. Membership is $99 per year.

Sponsor: Tufin

Tufin has pioneered a policy-based approach to network security management using automation and analytics. As a result, you can make network changes in minutes instead of days, reliably and securely. Tufin. The Security Policy Company. Get details at www.tufin.com.

Sponsor: Ixia

Join Ixia for The Network Makeover, a unique event featuring more than 50 giveaways, plus tips and tricks designed to help you turn network data into dynamic network intelligence. Register now and then tune in December 2-13 for daily chances to win. Go to  www.ixiacom.com/packetpushers to sign up.

Show Links:

Packet Pushers Ignition

SDWAN: Get A Managed Service Or Do It Yourself? (Whitepaper – Subscription required)