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Service provider are driving IPv6 deployments in the US and globally. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we talk about why with guest Jeff Doyle. We discuss address depletion, the problems with Carrier-Grade NAT as a workaround, and more.

Lead? Or follow? Get involved? Or watch from the sidelines?

The answer depends a lot on your personal career goals. Want more opportunities? That special job?

Then most likely you have to put yourself out there by learning something new and trying something different, even if it makes you uncomfortable.

Today on the Datanauts we talk about the risks and rewards of getting outside your tech comfort zone. Our guest is Ken Nalbone, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Gestalt IT. He blogs at FullStackKengineer.

Ken and the Datanauts talk about how, after 10 years in the same job, Ken decided it was time for a change. That meant some investment of time and effort into acquiring new skills. It also meant getting out into the world, including attending a local VMUG.

They discuss internal barriers to change, including both imposter syndrome and smart kid syndrome, as well as having to overcome introversion.

Sponsor: VMware Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive

Join VMware live and in person at the Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive coming to your city. You’ll hear from VMware NSX® product experts on how you can grow your skills to create an agile, programmable network infrastructure that can meet the business and security demands of the multi-cloud world. Visit www.vmware.com/go/VCNDeepDive to register.

Show Links:

Live Outside Your Comfort Zone. It Will Be Worth It – FullStackKengineer (Ken Nalbone’s blog)

Episode of the Nerd Journey podcast where Ken first heard the term “Smart Kid Syndrome”

Ken Nalbone on Twitter

Tech Field Day

Lead? Or follow? Get involved? Or watch from the sidelines?

The answer depends a lot on your personal career goals. Want more opportunities? That special job?

Then most likely you have to put yourself out there by learning something new and trying something different, even if it makes you uncomfortable.

Today on the Datanauts we talk about the risks and rewards of getting outside your tech comfort zone. Our guest is Ken Nalbone, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Gestalt IT. He blogs at FullStackKengineer.

Ken and the Datanauts talk about how, after 10 years in the same job, Ken decided it was time for a change. That meant some investment of time and effort into acquiring new skills. It also meant getting out into the world, including attending a local VMUG.

They discuss internal barriers to change, including both imposter syndrome and smart kid syndrome, as well as having to overcome introversion.

Sponsor: VMware Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive

Join VMware live and in person at the Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive coming to your city. You’ll hear from VMware NSX® product experts on how you can grow your skills to create an agile, programmable network infrastructure that can meet the business and security demands of the multi-cloud world. Visit www.vmware.com/go/VCNDeepDive to register.

Show Links:

Live Outside Your Comfort Zone. It Will Be Worth It – FullStackKengineer (Ken Nalbone’s blog)

Episode of the Nerd Journey podcast where Ken first heard the term “Smart Kid Syndrome”

Ken Nalbone on Twitter

Tech Field Day

Tech Bytes are short, sponsored conversations on the latest technologies and products. Today’s episode is sponsored by Silver Peak, and we talk to their customer swyMed.

SwyMed makes telemedicine software, hardware, and solutions for the healthcare industry. On today’s episode we talk about swyMed’s DOT Telemedicine Backpack.

Designed for first responders and for use in remote locations such as oil refineries and factories, the backpack enables high-quality audio and video between responders on site and doctors and nurses at hospitals or clinics.

This telemedicine solution allows doctors and nurses to weigh in on treatment and make diagnoses without being on site. The product uses a small Silver Peak SD-WAN appliance to bond multiple LTE links to ensure persistent and high-quality connectivity.

Jeff Urdan, Chief Operating Officer of swyMed, talks with the Packet Pushers about how the backpack works, the role the Silver Peak appliance plays in enabling connectivity, and shares stories of how the technology is used to help save lives.

Tech Bytes are short, sponsored conversations on the latest technologies and products. Today’s episode is sponsored by Silver Peak, and we talk to their customer swyMed.

SwyMed makes telemedicine software, hardware, and solutions for the healthcare industry. On today’s episode we talk about swyMed’s DOT Telemedicine Backpack.

Designed for first responders and for use in remote locations such as oil refineries and factories, the backpack enables high-quality audio and video between responders on site and doctors and nurses at hospitals or clinics.

This telemedicine solution allows doctors and nurses to weigh in on treatment and make diagnoses without being on site. The product uses a small Silver Peak SD-WAN appliance to bond multiple LTE links to ensure persistent and high-quality connectivity.

Jeff Urdan, Chief Operating Officer of swyMed, talks with the Packet Pushers about how the backpack works, the role the Silver Peak appliance plays in enabling connectivity, and shares stories of how the technology is used to help save lives.

Today's Network Break news review looks at Apple's demand for a Bloomberg retraction, Arista's new 400GbE switches, the sentencing of an Equifax engineer for insider trading, quarterly financials from Check Point and Juniper, and more tech news.

On today's Weekly Show, sponsor Juniper Networks joins us to look at how disaggregation works across the network stack, and how it can drive innovation, operational efficiency, and cost savings.

Today we’re diving into disaggregation with sponsor Juniper Networks. Much of the current discussion about disaggregation focuses on decoupling software from hardware, but disaggregation can occur across the network stack.

We’ll look at the different layers of disaggregation, and the business drivers for this trend, including speeding innovation, enabling operational efficiency through automation, and reducing costs.

We  discuss Juniper’s own efforts, from making its Junos network OS available on whitebox switches to supporting P4 to directly program ASICs.

Disaggregation has operational impacts, and we dig into what it means for networking teams to embrace this trend. We also look at Juniper’s latest initiatives to make training tools and materials easily available for engineers.

Last but not least, we talk about how all these disparate components get re-bundled into consumable packages.

Our guest is Guru Shenoy, Senior Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks.

Show Links:

Juniper EngNet – Juniper Networks

NRE Labs – Juniper Networks

Juniper EngNet and New Automation Offerings: Bringing Automation to the Masses – J-Net Community

Junos Product Page – Juniper Networks

Use Cases On Network Automation And Analytics – Juniper Networks

Network Automation And Services With Guru Shenoy – YouTube

Guru Shenoy on Twitter

Guru Shenoy on LinkedIn

Network Break peels away the marketing layers of the latest tech news, including a newly launched Cisco Nexus switch, Arista's foray into campus WLANs, a new privacy policy from Apple, a creepy Amazon patent, and more.

What does your manager want? On today's Weekly Show we talk to two managers to find out how they work with their teams, what they see as their roles, how they hire, and much more. Our guests are Michael Bushong and Omar Sultan.