The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods

I got together to Chris Swan @cpswan to record a two beer networking. Through my own staggering incompetence the video hasn’t turned out but the audio is just fine.

Chris a leader in service practice and the conversation talks about how organisational scar tissue. He recently attended the European IDC CIO summit in Lisbon which made it possible for him to meet on the harbourside and have a couple of beers to talk about how organisations tend to damage themselves when it comes to technology.

On today's Network Break we examine Bloomberg's controversial claim that China implanted microchips on Supermicro motherboards to spy on US businesses and government agencies. We also drill into news from Edgecore Networks, Cisco, and the Wi-Fi Alliance.

On today’s Packet Pushers Weekly Show, we discuss how the broadcast media industry leverages IP networks, the initiatives behind the standards and protocols, and why it all matters to data networking professionals.

Once upon a time, we sat in front of glowing square boxes, and broadcasters delivered signals through a cable sticking out of the wall.

We watched what they told us to watch when they said we could watch it. Today, content consumers stream anything they want, as much as they want, whenever and wherever they want. And it’s got to be there instantly and look really good.

The demand for streaming content at very high bit rates has forced broadcasters to rethink their infrastructure models, triggering distributed video over IP. This is bringing together broadcast engineers and IT departments that used to be completely separated.

On today’s Packet Pushers episode, we discuss how the broadcast media industry leverages IP networks, the initiatives behind the standards and protocols, and why it all matters to data networking professionals.

Our guests are François Legrand and Maxime Caron from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Video Transport: SDI vs IP—Timing Is Everything – The Broadcast Bridge

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores using the Wireshark protocol analyzer to understand and troubleshoot IPv6. Our guest is Jeff Carrell, an expert instructor in IPv6 and Wireshark.

Chris Wahl goes on a solo away mission to Microsoft Ignite 2018 to explore the cloudy world of Azure.

Recorded live at the show, today’s episode delves into Azure data services and storage announcements, including Data Box, a hardware appliance for shipping data into the cloud; and a preview announcement of Data Box Edge for local storage such as IoT use cases.

Chris and his guests also explore the latest news on Azure Stack, the on-premises version of Azure; new networking features in Microsoft’s cloud; updates on Windows Server 2019; and more.

Today’s guests are Jeffrey Snover, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect for Azure Storage, Media, and Cloud Edge; and Mike Nelson, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Rubrik.

Note that today’s show wasn’t sponsored by Microsoft, but the company did fly Chris to the event.

Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic 2

Regiseter now for the Packet Pushers’ second Virtual Design Clinic on October 11. This live, online event includes deep-dive technical presentations for network engineers and Ask Me Anything sessions with expert panelists. It’s free to sign up. Go to packetpushers.net/vdc to register. And get videos from the first VDC when you join our membership site Ignition.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 round-up: all the key announcements and news – Microsoft

Jeffrey Snover on Twitter

Mike Nelson on Twitter

Chris Wahl goes on a solo away mission to Microsoft Ignite 2018 to explore the cloudy world of Azure.

Recorded live at the show, today’s episode delves into Azure data services and storage announcements, including Data Box, a hardware appliance for shipping data into the cloud; and a preview announcement of Data Box Edge for local storage such as IoT use cases.

Chris and his guests also explore the latest news on Azure Stack, the on-premises version of Azure; new networking features in Microsoft’s cloud; updates on Windows Server 2019; and more.

Today’s guests are Jeffrey Snover, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect for Azure Storage, Media, and Cloud Edge; and Mike Nelson, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Rubrik.

Note that today’s show wasn’t sponsored by Microsoft, but the company did fly Chris to the event.

Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic 2

Regiseter now for the Packet Pushers’ second Virtual Design Clinic on October 11. This live, online event includes deep-dive technical presentations for network engineers and Ask Me Anything sessions with expert panelists. It’s free to sign up. Go to packetpushers.net/vdc to register. And get videos from the first VDC when you join our membership site Ignition.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 round-up: all the key announcements and news – Microsoft

Jeffrey Snover on Twitter

Mike Nelson on Twitter

Today's Network Break delves into news from Microsoft Ignite, including a virtual network tap in Azure and SD-WAN integrations. SolarWinds aims to go public, Michael Dell touts public cloud repatriation, and more tech news.

Today's Weekly Show is a roundtable discussion with network engineers on dealing with a lack of carrier diversity, equipment refresh cycles for the 100GbE data center, and more nerdy topics.

Welcome to the Packet Pushers Weekly Show. We’re going back to our roots with a community roundtable discussion.

In this format, a group of network engineers chew the fat about what’s on their minds related to IT, projects being worked on, the latest sputterings from vendors, and so on.

Put in your very favorite earbuds and join us for a frank chat about what’s up.

We’ll opine on handling hurricanes with a lack of carrier diversity, refresh cycles for 100GbE, cheap access to Safari Books Online, the all-wireless office, phone home failures, and more.

Our guests are

* Jordan Martin

* Tom Hollingsworth

* Jeremy Filliben

* Josh O’Brien

* Dana Dawson

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Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic 2

Regiseter now for the Packet Pushers’ second Virtual Design Clinic on October 11. This live, online event includes deep-dive technical presentations  and Ask Me Anything sessions with expert panelists.  Go to packetpushers.net/vdc to register for free. And get videos from the first VDC when you join our membership site Ignition.

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The Year of 100GbE in Data Center Networks – Data Center Knowledge