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The prime directive of the Datanauts podcast is to bust silos and get all the IT disciplines around the table to design solutions together.

Today’s episode, sponsored by HPE and Intel, explores how HPE helps companies unify their silos and build a modern IT infrastructure. Our guest is Garth Reid, Senior Strategist – Enterprise Portfolio at HPE.

We discuss key areas of the infrastructure stack including storage and compute, and examine the concepts of hyperconverged and composable infrastructure.

We also drill into specifics on how HPE brings software-defined capabilities to its portfolio, including Nimble, Simplivity, and Synergy.

Show Links:

Nimble Storage – HPE

Simplivity – HPE

Synergy – HPE

The prime directive of the Datanauts podcast is to bust silos and get all the IT disciplines around the table to design solutions together.

Today’s episode, sponsored by HPE and Intel, explores how HPE helps companies unify their silos and build a modern IT infrastructure. Our guest is Garth Reid, Senior Strategist – Enterprise Portfolio at HPE.

We discuss key areas of the infrastructure stack including storage and compute, and examine the concepts of hyperconverged and composable infrastructure.

We also drill into specifics on how HPE brings software-defined capabilities to its portfolio, including Nimble, Simplivity, and Synergy.

Show Links:

Nimble Storage – HPE

Simplivity – HPE

Synergy – HPE

Today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Silver Peak, discusses how SD-WAN can give you more leverage over your MPLS providers and improve performance for users.

Our guest is Bruce Jarrett, Infrastructure Team Lead and Network Architect, at Gentherm, a global developer of thermal management technologies such as heated car seats.

Gentherm has 20 facilities in 13 countries—includes business offices, R&D, manufacturing, and distribution.

Bruce describes how SD-WAN let the company roll out fast, high-performing broadband connections to supplement the company’s traditional MPLS deployment, while also improving user experience.

We also discuss how features such the controller-based architecture and zero-touch provisioning streamlined global deployments for Bruce’s three-person networking team.

Today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Silver Peak, discusses how SD-WAN can give you more leverage over your MPLS providers and improve performance for users.

Our guest is Bruce Jarrett, Infrastructure Team Lead and Network Architect, at Gentherm, a global developer of thermal management technologies such as heated car seats.

Gentherm has 20 facilities in 13 countries—includes business offices, R&D, manufacturing, and distribution.

Bruce describes how SD-WAN let the company roll out fast, high-performing broadband connections to supplement the company’s traditional MPLS deployment, while also improving user experience.

We also discuss how features such the controller-based architecture and zero-touch provisioning streamlined global deployments for Bruce’s three-person networking team.

On today's Network Break we analyze Dell's move back onto the public market, Arista's partnerships for container networking, startup funding, new products, and more of what's happening in IT.

On today's Network Break we analyze Dell's move back onto the public market, Arista's partnerships for container networking, startup funding, new products, and more of what's happening in IT.

The Weekly Show returns to the University of Idaho to continue the real-world network design session we started in Show 418. Today's episode focuses on the university's wireless architecture and design with guests Brian Jemes, Mike Rusca, and Jake Snyder. We cover 5Ghz, PoE, next-gen APs, and more.

Today’s Weekly Show episode returns to the University of Idaho, where we continue the real-world network design session we started in Weekly Show 418.

Guests Brian Jemes, Network Manager; and Mike Rusca, Network Engineer are back. We’ve also invited Jake Snyder, a mobility solutions architect.

Today’s episode focuses on the university’s wireless architecture and design.

We discuss how wireless has gone from a best-effort, don’t-count-on-it medium to an absolute requirement for faculty, staff, and students. In fact, wireless accounts for approximately 80% of devices on campus.

The conversation touches on the role of 5Ghz and small cell sizes, PoE, how the next generation of APs will affect WLAN design and operations, and more.

Sponsor: InterOptic

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Sponsor: Cumulus Networks

By building innovative data center products with Linux, Cumulus offers unprecedented interoperability, agility and scale, and makes integrating your open source software with your proprietary software seamless and efficient. To learn more about Cumulus’ open source philosophy and contributions, head to cumulusnetworks.com/openpod.

In today’s sponsored show with Juniper Networks, we dive into the world of silicon and ASICs. Our guest is Chang-Hong Wu, a VP and Juniper Fellow.

The Packet Pushers start the conversation by breaking down the differences between ASICs, FPGAs, and NPUs.

We discuss how Juniper uses both custom and merchant silicon in its gear. We also examine how Juniper enables programmability in its Penta ASIC, and how that compares to its fixed-pipeline Express ASIC.

Chang-Hong dives into the programmability features and capabilities of the Penta, and explains how use cases determine which ASIC Juniper chooses to go in which devices.

He also discusses advanced silicon designs such as silicon photonics and liquid cooling.

This episode is a great opportunity to get up to speed on networking ASICs.

Show Links:

Networking Innovation Built to Contend with the Unknowns  – Juniper Blog

Trio Packet Processing – Overview – Juniper Blog

Today's Priority Queue dives into Juniper's programmable Penta ASIC in this sponsored episode. Guest Chang-Hong Wu shares details on how the Penta ASIC works and discusses the future of silicon design for networking.