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PQ Show 23 – OpenFlow and SDN – ONF Testing & Interoperability With Michael Haugh

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:45:21 +0000

In this show we speak with Michael Haugh, the chairperson of Testing and Interoperability Working Group https://www.opennetworking.org/working-groups/testing-a-interop at the Open Networking Foundation. Michael is a Senior Product Line Manager and oversees Ixia’s Carrier Ethernet go-to-market strategy and product line on the Ixia core and IxN2X platforms. Michael has been in networking for 17 years and [...]

PQ Show 22 – Spirent Axon – Rapid Answers to the Question, “Will It Work?” – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:34:56 +0000

Spirent Axon: Rapid answers to the question, “Will it work?” The average enterprise needs to do a considerable amount of verification to ensure applications and networks run properly. However IT operations teams don’t typically have the time for complex testing setups and executions. Take for example a new video conferencing service that will allow remote employees and multiple branch offices to seamlessly connect with other staff members in virtual rooms. Before such a setup is deployed, there are many unknowns and potentially some “growing pains” such as packet loss problems and non-optimal QoE. Network engineers need a test tool that is able to perform the most complex tests, but can be configured and present results in simple terms. The typical IT operations personnel does not need or want to know all the ins and outs of the various testing methodologies (in this case IPv4 and HTTP among others), they just want to know if their configuration works, and if it doesn’t, do they have the information to find the problem quickly.

PQ Show 021 – Cisco Data Center Certs With Tony Bourke

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:05 +0000

Ethan Banks and Tony Bourke discuss the Cisco Data Center certifications, focusing on the CCNA & CCNP tracks. We take a look at what the tracks cover, who the right candidates are for these tracks, and how to prep. Inevitably, a few rabbit trails are followed as we pontificate about FCoE adoption or lack thereof, Tony’s [...]

PQ Show 20 – Open Network Foundation – FAWG Update

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:55:54 +0000

In this show we speak with Curt Beckmann as chairperson of Forwarding Abstractions Working Group (FAWG) at the Open Networking Foundation. The FAWG is a vendor focussed committee that aims to bridge the art of the possible in the silicon chip manufacturing space of the network vendors and the drive to deliver new features. Silicon takes years to design test and manufacture, and the OpenFlow /SDN standards are racing to add new features. The FAWG stands in the middle of that debate. Lets discuss the competing requirements and how the vendors are working to support the current OpenFlow standards, while balancing the requirements to deliver products.

PQ Show 019 – Big Switch Webinar Q & A Session

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:08:38 +0000

On December 13, 2012, the Packet Pushers published show 128, a video podcast with Big Switch Networks, where Dan Hersey & Andrew Harding discuss & demo the Big Switch controller, and applications that run on the Big Switch controller such as Big Virtual Switch and Big Tap. If you haven’t seen that show yet, you [...]

PQ Show 18 – Bits Is Bits-Cisco’s Michael Enescu on Open Source & Neutrality – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +0000

Cisco contributes quite a bit of code to the open source world, and Michael Enescu, CTO for Open Source Initiatives, is just the guy to tell the Packet Pushers audience about it. In this discussion with hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro, Michael discusses the what, why and how of Cisco’s open source efforts. What We [...]

PQ Show 17 – Reviewing the Brocade VDX Launch With Ivan Pepelnjak

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:17:10 +0000

Shortly after the Brocade launch of the Brocade VDX in September 2012 I got Ivan Pepelnjak on the show to talk about the reality check ( OK, so this one has been sitting in the vault for too long, so shoot me). Lets get underneath the glamour of the launch event and talk performance, capacity [...]

PQ Show 16 – Cage Match – MPLS Is Dead. Or Not.

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:05:48 +0000

In this impromptu and live recording, after having twitpiss about it, Greg & Derick go head to head on the topic whether MPLS is dead in an SDN world. Lets have the debate in full and proper order, and see who can convince the listeners.

PQ Show 015 – Cisco Hybrid Switching and OnePK – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:13:46 +0000

Hybrid Switching is the next evolution in the OpenFlow/SDN market and focusses on the "How do we get from today's network to tomorrows infrastrucutre". We've been talking about OpenFlow for some time now, and more recently the HOW of configuring OpenFlow has been discussed more and more with the title of Software Defined Networkling. To some extent, we have answers to those questions and we are moving to implementation and we realise that most networks will need to run OpenFlow, SDN and programmable networking on their existing topologies. That's Hybrid Switching.

PQ – Show 14 – NFD4 Statseeker Wrap UP

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:19:39 +0000

We had some time following the Statseeker presentation to talk about reactions to Statseeker.

PQ – Show 13 – Impromptu Packet Party 15 July 2012

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:55:08 +0000

Ethan and I haven't had enough spare time to organise these events lately but here is the recording from the last Packet Party where we opened up the laptop microphone to anyone who wanted to ask questions.

PQ Show 12 – Cisco vPath 2.0 and Nexus 1000v With Prashant Ghandi – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:45:10 +0000

Cisco vPath 2.0 is part of the Nexus 1000v software switching architecture and it's important part of the Nexus 1000V purpose and product architecture. In this sponsored podcast, Prashant Ghandi talks about the latest vPath 2.0 feature in the Nexus 1000v and what it means for customers. And we are deep diving......

PQ – Show 11 – Brocade VDX 8770 – Technical Deep Dive

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:32:36 +0000

While I was at the Brocade analyst day, I got two of product leads for the VDX8770 chassis into a room to talk about the recent product announcements and go over some of the details of the new “big switch”. Lets face it, big chassis switches don’t come around very often and sometimes you don’t [...]

PQ Show 010 – Cisco Virtual Symposium – Virtual Machine Networking – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:00:57 +0000

This is a recording of the Cisco Virtual Symposium on Virtual Machine Networking. This is a sponsored event that was held live on 25th July 2012. Virtual Symposiums are where we bring a panel of people experts to have discussion about deeper concepts in networking. It’s about keeping it nerdy, technical and throwing the questions [...]

PQ Show 009 – Cisco Nexus Deep Dive Part 2.5 – Virtual Port-Channel Concluded

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:00:37 +0000

Tony Mattke, Chris Marget, and Jeff Fry continue a discussion begun in Priority Queue Show 007 with Ethan Banks about deploying virtual port-channel technology with the Cisco Nexus 5K and 7K series of switches in this continuation of the Cisco Nexus deep-dive podcast series. What We Discuss Traffic-flow through a virtual port-channel infrastructure. HSRP behavior in a vPC domain. Spanning-tree [...]

Priority Queue Show 008 – Cisco and Network Programmability – Virtual Symposium

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:15:38 +0000

This is a recording of the Cisco Virtual Symposium on Network Programmability. Network Programmability refers to the capability where an external application can configure including modify and update the configuration, and operationally manage network devices. In particular, we want to discuss the impact of OpenFlow and SDN on the corporate network environment. How will Network Programmability work ?

PQ Show 007 – Cisco Nexus Deep Dive Part 2 – Virtual Port-Channel

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:42:02 +0000

Tony Mattke, Chris Marget, and Jeff Fry join Ethan Banks for a discussion about deploying virtual port-channel technology with the Cisco Nexus 5K and 7K series of switches in this continuation of the Cisco Nexus deep-dive podcast series. What We Discuss What is vPC? What are some use-cases for vPC? vPC terminology: domains, peer links, vPC VLANs, keepalives. The [...]

PQ Show 006 – Nexus 1000V Update With Han Yang – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:49:35 +0000

This podcast discusses the latest announcements at Cisco Live on the Nexus 1000V with Han Yang from including the following: expanded support for Open Source Hypervisors, including Citrix XEN, KVM and others coming the in next few months. REST APIs for programmable networking VXLAN termination capabilities for bridging between virtual and physical VLANs in the [...]

PQ Show 005 – Cisco Nexus Updates With Ron Fuller – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:00:54 +0000

Ron Fuller, CCIE, CiscoPress author, tweeter, blogger, and Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, talked to Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro about announcements made at Cisco Live US 2012 related to the Cisco Nexus product line. What We Discuss Supervisor 2 & 2E bring more control-plane power to the Nexus 7000 series. More VDCs, including a special [...]

PQ Show 004 – Catalyst 4500X and 4500E – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:02:55 +0000

Sometimes you would think that Campus LANs don't actually exist. In this podcast, we are looking at the Catalyst 4500X product with a team from Cisco. Greg specifically requested to discuss this product to cover products that are used often, but not necessarily so "cool" or fashionable ( thanks to listeners who asked!).

PQ Show 003 – Cisco onePK With Richard Pruss – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:00:40 +0000

Richard Pruss, a Principal Engineer in NSSTG Architecture Group of the Cisco Network Software Services Technology Group, joins Derick Winkworth, Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks in a discussion about Cisco’s onePK API strategy to enable SDN and network programmability. What We Discuss What is onePK? What’s different about onePK versus SNMP? How is onePK impacted by [...]

PQ Show 002 – Cisco Cloud Services Router With Prashant Shenoy – Sponsored

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:33:50 +0000

During Cisco Live 2012, the Cloud Services Router was announced by Cisco. We we able to convince Prashanth Shenoy, Product Manager to come and talk about what we know so far.

PQ Show 001 – Introducing New Show – The Priority Queue

packetpushers@gmail.com (The Packet Pushers) — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:23:46 +0000

This is Packet Pushers Priority Queue - a Special Features podcast where the Packet Pushers take our hardest of hard core, industry event coverage, nichest of niche, and most specific of special content and create whole new category of networking podcast.