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This week we have Tommy, John Osman, Greg Lipschitz, Jeremy Austin and Dan Siemon to talk about Preseem as our new sponsor

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

Preseem.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

0:00:59 Introduction

0:05:30 Preseem elevator pitch

0:09:16 Tommy’s Story with Preseem

0:12:28 What is QOE?

0:15:35 Onboarding Time and what Preseem boxed look like (Hardware requirements)

0:19:50 Question “How many queues can you handle?”

0:22:40 CGNAT?

0:25:04 QOS is Bunk!

0:28:59 Is Preseem afraid of the availability of FQ_Codel/Cake in commodity (Mikrotik) hardware?

0:32:40 Is Preseem only for Wireless? What about other Tech? (DSL, Fiber, Cable, PTMP technologies)

0:34:29 The value of Preseem, our access networks need improvement. Why Preseem

0:50:30 Does not replace actually having sufficient bandwidth! But can help.

0:53:41 The classical solution of throwing bandwidth at all of the problems doesn’t help either.

0:57:40 Where does Preseem+ fit in?

0:59:48 What about when you have multiple ingress/egress paths? (diverse upstreams in your network)

1:04:30 What about when the Preseem box fails?

1:06:30 Is Docker an option?

1:08:50 What about integration with other platforms? (Billing software)

1:10:30 Can I just get Preseem+?

1:12:05 IPv6 support?

1:16:10 Multi-Queueing?

1:20:56 Transport Technologies beyond IPv4 and IPv6? (VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS)

1:20:20 Why the WISP Market and what’s the future look like for other technologies?

1:28:40 Goal is improving customer’s experience. (both you and your customer’s)

1:32:00 How to get ahold of Preseem.

1:36:45 How to get ahold of Greg

1:38:07 How to get ahold of John

https://www.youtube.com/c/Preseem

John’s site: https://www.miscreantsinaction.com/

This week we have Tommy and Jon

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Ubiquiti 60 GHz gear announcements, various 60 GHz gear and a cool teardown video, AF60 and AF60LR are Class A Radios Use Caution when placing them!

1 Petabit per second per strand of Fiber

Ubiquiti Edgeswitch s16 Issues and Switch/Power Discussion.

Mikrotik ROS V7.3 RC1 & 2 and Comments on Cake Queues

Flat network woes and recommendations for avoiding annoying things 1:19:00 TCP Windowing issue?

Mimosa Announcements

Subscription Models and how unpopular they are.

Tom Smith BGP on BSD, X86 Routers

Relevant Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxC5R…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9fv…

https://newatlas.com/telecommunicatio…

Fiber Store’s Mux ponder https://www.fs.com/products/148739.html

https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom…

Tom Smith did a presentation at BSDCan about BGP on BSD https://www.bsdcan.org/events/bsdcan_…

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This week we have Greg, Tommy, and Nick.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Greg retires from TBW podcast…bye everyone

BEAD program

ROS 7.3 beta 40, CAKE disabled?, added BGP names, more verbosity on bridge loop detection. When do we get more STP info in logs?!?!

No CAKE for you; thanks Ole

magic SFP notes from Chad

Testing over a backup WAN link

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This week we have Greg, Greg, and more Greg.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

MaGiC-SFP : Solving the Last Mile Bandwidth Challenge

Unifi Dreamwall

Every US ISP to block sites

Travel to Argentina

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This week we have Greg, Zach, and Collin Z travel there and back again.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Little Brother Employment Advancement (Proof it’s not a static group!)

Ubiquiti identity management

PoE Switches Capable of Being Powered by PoE

Have we talked Omada yet?

What are we automating these days?

zachs links

collins links

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This week we have Greg, Tommy C., and friendly new(almost Canadian) face Zach Biles!

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Getting better at git

using git in your environment

batfish

SuzieQ

Arista ZTP blogpost

Mikrotik 100Gb switch CRS504-4XQ-IN

Mikrotik 7.2 stable release

CRS326 port extender mode; if extended switch gets a loop the main switch goes hard down.

Let’s say you wanted to make sure someone could use a cell phone for a video call in the middle of a concert where there is massive 5ghz and 2ghz interference and cell service is also overloaded. What would you do?

Universal Service Fund Administration Testing

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This week we have Greg and Nick Arellano. Zoom FTW bruh.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

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This week we talk about:

7.2RC5 *) bgp – added BGP advertisements display (requires output.keep-sent-attributes to be set);

Arista purchasing untangle

What is Greg automating – AWS inventory and Arista ZTP

ICANN refusal of services suspension Russia

Suspension of services for Russia LINX

Russian creates its own certificate authority

Cogent pulled out of russia – pulled IP space too

Lumen pulled out of russia

Govt sanction notes

Documentation written vs video

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This week we have Greg, Nick A., and Miller. Good news: this one was smooth with a LOT of great info/banter. Bad news: the recording is all kinds of bricked and only gets about 20 minutes of the conversation. Burned for the last time, we are transitioning off of Skype.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Mikrotik Wireless wave 2 supported on only 4 devices currently

Mikrotik ARM based routers that have stability issues should try ROSv7.2 – supposedly contains fixes

Mikrotik is on the fence about adding BGP Max Prefix limit

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This week we have Greg, Andrew Thrift, and Nick Arellano! Thrift was on a loaner machine, so his audio has a little noise here and there, but I believe I’ve edited most of it out.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ – $2795

2216 product video

2216 switch chipset spec sheet – 98DX8525

802.1Qbg

Dynamic balancing of mice and elephant flows

802.1BR bridge extender

ccr2004-1g-2xs-PCIe – $200 – also supports SFP+

2004 product video

2004 original block diagram, not this router, but same chipset

Cube 60Pro ac

CubeSA 60Pro ac

Cube vs nRAY?

CRS310-1G-5S-4S+IN

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This week we have Greg and Mike do the last duo cast for a while; Mike is about to join the elite club of fatherhood.

**Sponsors**

Sonar.Software

Towercoverage.com

**/Sponsors**

This week we talk about:

Doom on a 2011

map lite is perfect travel router…just wish it had 5ghz

What’s going on with Ansible AAP2.1?

Zhone Stuff

Ping Infrastructure

Sonar Communication

CCR2116 BGP Performance vs Juniper MX and Cisco ASR9k

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