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You’re listening to Tech Bytes from the Packet Pushers, a 15-minute podcast that gives you a quick but comprehensive look at products and technologies in the real world.

Today’s sponsor is Oracle, and we’re talking about SD-WAN. In particular, we look at the notion of failsafe SD-WAN and what that means for how Oracle sets itself apart in a very competitive market.

Our guest is Andy Gottlieb, VP, SD-WAN Solutions at Oracle.

We discuss:

* How Oracle emphasizes high availability and quality of experience to provide a failsafe SD-WAN

* Key capabilities including continuous unidirectional measurement and sub-second response to network events

* Product differentiation

* More

Show Links:

Oracle.com/sd-wan

https://www.talari.com/white_paper/failsafe-software-defined-wans/

https://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/solutions/sdwan.html

Today's Tech Bytes dives into failsafe SD-WAN with sponsor Oracle. We discuss how Oracle provides Quality of Experience through techniques such as continuous unidirectional measurement and sub-second response to network events. Our guest is Andy Gottlieb, VP, SD-WAN Solutions at Oracle.

Today's Heavy Networking welcomes back sponsor Arrcus to discuss the latest advancements in its ArcOS NOS, including support for Jericho2 ASICs, the new ArcIQ Analytics platform, and the vote of confidence from investors in the form of a $30 million funding round. Our guests are Keyur Patel, CTO and founder; and Murali Gandluru, VP of Product Management.

Today’s Heavy Networking is a sponsored show with Arrcus. Their ArcOS network operating system takes a fresh approach to routing.

ArcOS is a 64-bit, Internet-scale, modular NOS that enables programmability and runs on a variety of OEM platforms and ASICs.

We’ll explore new features in ArcOS including a forthcoming analytics platform, support for 100G/400G ASICs, the startup’s latest funding round, and more.

Our guests are Keyur Patel, CTO and founder; and Murali Gandluru, VP of Product Management.

We discuss:

* ArcOS’s support for Broadcom’s Jericho2 ASIC

* New features available in Jericho2 that ArcOS leverages

* How ArcOS enables routing-centric transformation

* How ArcIQ Analytics ingests telemetry and provides real-time visibility, control, and security

* Arrcus’s $30 millions Series B funding round

* More

Show Links:

ArcOS – Arrcus

Tech Bytes: How Arrcus Uses LSVR To Build Scalable Data Center Fabrics (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

PQ 160: Inside ArcOS®: The Internet-Scale, Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

Packet Pushers host Greg Ferro found slides from a presentation he gave in 1999, and many of the points he raised are still relevant 20 years on. Why does networking take so long to change? The Packet Pushers and guests Jeremy Filliben, a CCDE trainer; and Emma Cardinal-Richards, a senior network architect; share their insights and opinions.

In a discussion on the Packet Pushers’ Slack channel, Greg shared some slides from 1999, where some of the same points he raised 20 years ago are still true today. Why is networking so slow to change?

That’s the focus of our discussion today. Joining us is Emma Cardinal-Richards, Senior Network Architect at University College in London. This is her first time appearing on Heavy Networking.

Also joining us is Jeremy Filliben. Jeremy is the Owner/Consultant/Instructor at Pristine Packets. You might know him as a CCDE trainer.

Please welcome both Emma and Jeremy into your earbuds, and let’s get into our discussion on what it is about networking that makes it slow to change.

Here’s the slides that spurred this episode:

Sponsor: Tufin

Tufin has pioneered a policy-based approach to network security management using automation and analytics. You can make network changes in minutes instead of days, reliably and securely. Tufin. The Security Policy Company. Find out more at tufin.com

Sponsor: ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt.

Show Links:

Emma Cardinal-Richards on Twitter @emsk1g

Jeremy Filliben’s Blog

Jeremy Filliben on Twitter

Ignition – Packet Pushers Premium

The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps: Elite performance, productivity, and scaling – Google Cloud Blog

QoS is hard to monitor. How do you know you’ve gotten it right? If it’s not working the way you want, how can you tell? To help us form a network design strategy to cope with these QoS gotchas is Peter Welcher, a network architect at NetCraftsmen.

QoS is difficult to implement over the Internet, because hey, you don’t own all the gear between you and the destination.

And even if you do own all the bits, QoS is hard to monitor. How do you know you’ve gotten it right? If it’s not working the way you want, how can you tell?

When you’ve got all of that sorted, what do you do about it?

These, among other things, are QoS “gotchas” you’ve maybe run into. To help us form a network design strategy to cope with these gotchas is Peter Welcher, a network architect at NetCraftsmen, a consultancy in the Washington DC area that supports folks around the world.

We’re going to hit some QoS limitations to lead off the show, and then spend the rest of our time focused on how to monitor QoS in an actionable way.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

Today’s show is sponsored in part by ExtraHop, 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:

Some QoS Gotchas – NetCraftsmen

NetCraftsmen

Peter Welcher’s blogs at NetCraftsmen

Peter Welcher on Twitter

Quality of Service (QoS) Fundamentals In 27 Lessons – Packet Pushers Ignition

Take a Network Break! Guest Ed Horley, co-host of the IPv6 Buzz podcast, stops by with a dozen virtual donuts and sharp commentary in today’s episode.

IDC reports that server sales slumped in the second quarter of 2019, IP transit prices are falling across the globe, and an AWS outage in the United States resulted in unrecoverable data loss for a very small number of customers.

Oracle warns of the risks of gratuitous AS path prepending, Microsoft requires a cloud migration company, and Commvault spends $225 million to buy a software-defined storage startup.

WeWork considers cutting the company’s valuation ahead of its IPO, and VMworld’s FutureNET mulls some big ideas in networking.

Sponsor: ThouandEyes

ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt.

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Show Links:

Worldwide Server Market Revenue Declined 11.6% Year Over Year in the Second Quarter of 2019, According to IDC – Businesswire

The Inevitable Slowdown In Server Spending – Next Platform

Checking In: Yup. Price Erosion is Still Very Real. – Telegeography

AWS celebrates Labor Day weekend by roasting customer data in US-East-1 BBQ – The Register

Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud is Not Always Safe – Bleeping Computer

Excessive BGP AS Path Prepending is a Self-Inflicted Vulnerability – Oracle Internet Intelligence

Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools – Microsoft

Handy, that: Microsoft inhales cloud migration outfit for undisclosed amount – The Register

Today's Network Break podcast delves into an AWS outage, tracks a slump in server sales, examines acquisitions by Commvault and Microsoft, and shares highlights from VMworld's FutureNET program. Guest Ed Horley stops by to share commentary and insights.