Packet Pushers - Fat Pipe

The latest Network Break episode covers new switches from Extreme, a digital whiteboard from Google, Apple and Nokia's friendly patent settlement and more.

Today's Weekly Show is a wide-ranging discussion on OpenFlow (and what happened to it), network disaggregation, and network virtualization. Our guest Wes Felter and the Packet Pushers explore the current state of networking and speculate about where the industry is going.

Today's Priority Queue explores network modeling and programmability. Our guest Michael Kashin has been working with YANG models, python, and a variety of supporting tools. We discuss how to work with network models and how they tie to the future of network configuration.

Today's episode is all about Chris s adventures at the 5th annual PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit.

Take a Network Break! This week we have stories on HPE and Nutanix, a mysterious CCDE exam cancellation, an open source telemetry project finding a home in the Linux Foundation and more.

Today's Weekly Show is a conversation with JR Rivers, cofouner and CTO of Cumulus Networks, our sponsor for this episode. We talk Web-scale IT, automation, Free Range Routing and more.

Today's Priority Queue explores three IETF draft projects for routing, including BIER, RIFT, and the use of BGP as a control plane for service function chaining. Our guests are Alia Atlas and Antoni Przygienda.

Today on the Datanauts we explore the depths of vSphere 6.5 host resources to help you maximum performance of your virtual infrastructure and provide a deeper understanding of essentials such as CPU, memory, storage, and Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). Our guests are Frank Denneman and Niels Hagoort, authors of the forthcoming book "vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive."

Take a Network Break! We analyze Cisco's $610 million purchase of Viptela and discuss a new report that shows enterprise data centers doing just fine in a cloudy world. And stay tuned for a Coffee Talk with CloudGenix and Jax Federal Credit Union.

Today's Weekly Show brings you tales from the trenches with our sponsor Connection. As a national solutions provider, Connection sees all sorts of things at all sorts of sites, and thus has interesting stories to tell.

Today's Priority Queue looks at hackathons at the IETF. Hackathons provide real-world feedback for working groups, validate implementations of standards, and help drive adoption in the broader tech community.

On today's Datanauts episode we recount the journey of a technical professional to teach ops folks how to talk to APIs, code in various languages, and embrace the programmability of networking. Our guest is Lauren Malhoit.

Take a Network Break! This week we have details on new products from Avaya and Cisco, plus stories on Oracle, HPE, Apple vs. Qualcomm, and quarterly earnings updates from Intel, Amazon, Juniper and more.

Today's Weekly Show episode is part 2 of the Packet Pushers' Ask Me Anything series. We answer listener questions on certifications, skills development, imposter syndrome, and preferences for fighting giant ducks or small horses (we did say you could ask anything).

Today's Priority Queue is all about DNS, including scale, security, privacy, and DDoS protection. We'll also get into mechanisms for DNS authentication and operational issues. This episode was recorded live at IETF 98 with guest Tim Wicinski.