In this Short Take, Eyvonne explores how to think about your career trajectory and covers 5 questions you should ask yourself when planning your career. Eyvonne Sharp Host The post Short Take – Thinking About Your Career Trajectory appeared first on Network Collective ....
Few technologies are as ubiquitous as email. In Part 2 of this two-part series, Dave Crocker joins us to talk about the History of Email. Listen in as he talks about the early days of message exchange and how the technology evolved to be an integral part of modern day communication. Dave Crocker Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org...
On June 4, 2018, Microsoft announced it will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. What does this acquisition mean for developers, the projects that use GitHub, and the online community surrounding it? Listen is as Network Collective discusses with this acquisition means for Microsoft, GitHub, and the many projects and developers that rely on GitHub. Alistair Woodman Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Cre...
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ talks about practical concepts network engineers need to know to succeed in their careers. Russ White The post Short Take – Practical Career Advice appeared first on Network Collective ....
Few technologies are as ubiquitous as email. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Dave Crocker joins us to talk about the History of Email. Listen in as he talks about the early days of message exchange and how the technology evolved to be an integral part of modern day communication. Dave Crocker Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org...
When it comes to NAT, network engineers love it, they hate it, or the love to hate it. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and Nick Buraglio join us to talk about NAT, why it exists, and its continued role in networking. We would like to thank Core BTS for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Core BTS focuses on partnering with your company to deliver technical solutions that enhance and drive your business. If you’re looking for a partner to help your technology teams take the next ste...
In this Network Collective short take, Russ shares a story about his time as an electrical engineer and the lesson he learned from it about fixing the problem. Russ White The post Short Take – Fixing The Problem appeared first on Network Collective ....
Today, every network vendor sells a solution labeled “software-defined”. But in the 2000’s, the networking stack was driven by constraints in hardware that could not be changed. In this History of Networking, Martin Casado joins us to talk about the ideas that drove his research in software-defined networking and his thoughts on hardware and software in networking. Martin Casado Guest Russ White Host Jordan Martin Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) ...
In this episode Russ White talks about how security absolutism is actually detrimental to securing important data and systems, and how shifting our view of security to a balance of tradeoffs would be a much better approach. Russ White The post Short Take – Security As A Tradeoff appeared first on Network Collective ....
In this episode we’re changing things up a bit. Eyvonne, Russ, and Jordan come together to chat a bit about the past year and share some exciting news about where we are heading as a podcast. Thank you for making Network Collective possible and we’re looking forward to producing even more great content over the coming year. Jordan Martin Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Russ White Host...
In this Short Take, Russ White shares his thoughts on the pros and cons of telecommuting and what you can do to be a better remote employee. Russ White The post Short Take – Telecommuting appeared first on Network Collective ....
Recent history tells us that even after decades of pervasive use, BGP is far from a fully secure protocol. In this episode of History of Networking on Network Collective, Geoff Houston joins us to talk about how we got here and why previous attempts at BGP security have fallen by the wayside. Geoff Houston Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Jordan Martin Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creative...
In this Network Collective Short Take, guest commentator Nick Buraglio shares his thoughts on field area networking after watching Cisco’s presentation on the topic at Networking Field Day 17. You can see the original NFD17 presentation here: https://vimeo.com/253197120 Nick Buraglio Guest Contributor The post Short Take – Cisco Field Area Networking appeared first on Network Collective ....
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White discusses how the subsidiarity principle can be applied to network design decisions. Russ White The post Short Take – The Subsidiarity Principle appeared first on Network Collective ....
In this History of Networking episode Tony Przygienda joins us to discuss his involvement in the origins of BIER (Bit Index Explicit Replication). BIER is a new take on an old problem, the efficient forwarding of point-to-multipoint (multicast) traffic. Tony Przygienda Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The post History Of Networki...
In this Short Take Russ White argues that the traditional seven layer model for network communication is antiquated and inadequate in explaining modern networking. He also proposes an alternative model and invites everyone to the eventual funeral of the OSI seven layer model. Russ White The post Short Take – Death Of The Seven Layer Model appeared first on Network Collective ....
To celebrate the first anniversary of Network Collective, we invite a stellar panel of guests to share their networking war stories. We discuss challenging outages, difficult problems, and what we’ve learned along the way. Terry Slattery Guest Ethan Banks Guest Jordan Martin Host...
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White explores how disaggregation can be expanded to everyone’s favorite security appliance, the firewall. Russ White The post Short Take – Disaggregation and Firewalls appeared first on Network Collective ....
In this History of Networking episode of Network Collective we chat with Dino Farinacci about his contributions to the Locator/ID Separation Protocol, or LISP. Dino Farinacci Guest Russ White Host Jordan Martin Host Donald Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The post History Of Networking – Dino Farinacci – History of LISP appeared first on Network Collective ....
In this Network Collective short take, Eyvonne discusses the role of a sales engineer. She highlights the value sales engineers can bring to enterprises and outlines some ways you can get the most out of your relationship with your vendor or VAR sales engineer. Eyvonne Sharp Host The post Short Take – In Defense of Sales Engineers appeared first on Network Collective ....
In a new protocol deep-dive series, Nick Russo and Russ White return to discuss MPLS. In part one, we discuss the primary use cases for MPLS, label allocation, and what SD-WAN means for the future of MPLS. Show Notes: MPLS solves 3 fundamental problems, individually or in concert Multi-tenancy/VPNs Traffic engineering Fast reroute 4 bytes in a shim header, technically not a label, but we call it that 20 bits for label value, 2^20 ~= 1 million values (this is important) 3 bits for EXP, QoS really...
In this Network Collective short take, Jordan Martin shares his thoughts on the recent announcement from Cisco that they will be offering disaggregated solutions. Has Cisco seen the light? Will Cisco abandon hardware completely? Or are the doing all of this for other reasons? Related Episodes: Off the Cuff – Disaggregation Episode 18 – Whitebox Networking Jordan Martin Host The post Short Take – Cisco Disaggregation Announcement appeared first on Network Collective ....
The operation and management of compute and networking are unique in the the tools and skill-sets required, but do they necessarily need to be? Dinesh Dutt joins Network Collective to talk about the divergence of compute and networking, how it hasn’t always been this way, and why he believes it should return to being a unified effort. Dinesh Dutt Guest Russ White Host Jordan Martin Host Donald Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: B...
The need for resiliency in network infrastructure is almost a given, but how do you get there? John Herbert, Jody Lemoine and Pete Welcher join the Network Collective team to talk through the complexities involved in a highly available infrastructure. We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is offering you, our listeners, a completely free O’Reilly ebook on the topic of BGP in the data center. You can get your copy of this excellent tech...
From processors, to FPGAs, to ASICs, and back again, Tony Li joins Network Collective’s History of Networking to talk through the impact that the Cisco SSE and hardware switching has had on the networking industry. Tony Li Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Jordan Martin Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The post History Of Networking – Tony Li – SSE and Hardw...
Miguel Villareal and Scott Wheeler come back and join Network Collective for a second episode, discussing the complexities involved in connecting to cloud infrastructure services and some strategies on how to mitigate them. We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus invites you to find out more about how Linux is changing the data center networking space by downloading their free ebook “Linux Networking 101” here: http://cumulusnetworks.com...
We often take dynamic routing protocol failover for granted but there’s a lot of complexity that goes into ensuring resilient loop free alternative paths. In this episode of History of Networking, Alia Atlas joins Network Collective to talk about her contributions to IP fast reroute. Alia Atlas Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Eyvonne Sharp Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/...
In part 3 of our deep dive into BGP operations, Nick Russo and Russ White join us again on Network Collective to talk about securing BGP. In this episode we cover topics like authentication, advertisement filtering, best practices, origin security, path security, and remotely triggered black holes. We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is offering you, our listeners, a completely free O’Reilly ebook on the topic of BGP in the data cent...
In this History of Networking episode of Network Collective, Joel Halpern joins us to talk about the history of network modeling and policy based management in the standards bodies. Joel Halpern Guest Russ White Host Donald Sharp Host Jordan Martin Host Outro Music: Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The post History Of Networking – Joel Halpern – Policy Based Management appeared fir...
In this episode of Network Collective, Hank Yeomans and Jonathan Davis join us to take a look at some of our favorite tools as network engineers. Whether it’s hardware or software, tools are the things that help us do our jobs well, and if used correctly, can help set you apart. We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus invites you to find out more about how Linux is changing the data center networking space by downloading their free ebook...
