Heavy Networking 473: Synthetic Transactions, SD-WAN Readiness, And Internet Outage Autopsies With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

Summary: Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.<br> Today is a sponsored show with <a href="https://thousandeyes.com/packetpushers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ThousandEyes</a> and we’re going to feast on a smorgasbord of topics: first, a new synthetic transaction monitoring tool from ThousandEyes.<br> Second, we’ll discuss why performance monitoring is critical to your SD-WAN readiness and ongoing operations.<br> Third, we’ll explore postmortems on a couple of 2019’s Internet outages, including a major route leak that affected CloudFlare, and what that means when you’re relying on the Internet for critical business applications.<br> Our guests from ThousandEyes are Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://thousandeyes.com/packetpushers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ThousandEyes</a><br> <a href="https://www.thousandeyes.com/solutions/browser-synthetic-monitoring" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Browser Synthetic Monitoring</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://blog.thousandeyes.com/introducing-internet-aware-synthetic-transaction-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Introducing Internet-Aware Synthetic Transaction Monitoring</a> – ThousandEyes Blog<br> <a href="https://www.thousandeyes.com/press-releases/internet-aware-synthetics-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ThousandEyes Addresses Critical Enterprise Application Performance Visibility Gap With Internet-Aware Synthetics</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://marketo-web.thousandeyes.com/rs/thousandeyes/images/ThousandEyes_White_Paper_Application_Delivery.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ThousandEyes for Application Delivery</a> – ThousandEyes (PDF)<br> <a href="https://www.thousandeyes.com/solutions/hybrid-wan-monitoring" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Visibility for Your Hybrid WAN and SD-WAN Traffic</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://blog.thousandeyes.com/cloudflare-users-burned-by-internet-routing-pile-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-Up</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://blog.thousandeyes.com/whatsapp-disruption-just-one-symptom-of-broader-route-leak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WhatsApp Disruption: Just One Symptom of Broader Route Leak</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://blog.thousandeyes.com/internet-outage-reveals-reach-of-chinas-connectivity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet Outage Reveals Reach of China’s Connectivity</a> – ThousandEyes<br>