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This week's Network Break discusses NetBox Labs's $20 million funding round and why it spun itself out of NS1's IBM acquisition, Intel Foundry and Arm teaming up on SoC manufacturing, why Amazon sees headwinds for public cloud spending (and why the opportunity is still huge), how the juice-jacking threat got hyped, and more tech news.

On today’s Heavy Networking we get into IPv6 essentials for network engineers, including how to incorporate IPv6 support in upcoming projects, how IPv6 affects NAT and subnetting, what the heck Happy Eyeballs and nibble boundaries are, and why you should approach IPv6 with a mindset of abundance not scarcity. The post Heavy Networking 674: IPv6 Essentials For Network Engineers – Think Abundance, Not Scarcity appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Day Two Cloud we dive into how the public clouds spend their money and what IT and engineering folks can learn from those spending patterns. We also look at the notion of cloud repatriation and how prevalent (or not) it is. Our guest is Charles Fitzgerald, a CapEx obsessive who writes the Platformonomics blog.

AIOps is been a buzzword but public generative AI and LLMs like ChatGPT mean there is a lot more awareness and demand. In todays sponsored show we are talking to Vitria about VIA AI Ops and how you can add it to your IT strategy. The post HS045 Seize Opportunities for Modern IT Operations with VIA (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into gNMIc with sponsor Nokia. gNMIc is open-source software you can use to configure devices and collect device telemetry. It can output telemetry to InfluxDB, Prometheus, and SNMP traps. Nokia has contributed gNMIc to the OpenConfig project. We talk with gNMIc creator Karim Radhouani, Technology and Architecture Consulting Engineer at Nokia, about why he developed the tool and how customers are using it. The post Tech Bytes: Configure Devices, Stream Telemetry With Nokia’s Free, Open-Source gNMIc (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Heavy Wireless is a new addition to the Packet Pushers podcast network. Well-known wireless expert Keith Parsons will be hosting the show. Subscribe now and be able to say "First!" when episode 001 drops on May 2, 2023.

This week's Network Break examines Security Copilot, the latest AI-infused assistant in Microsoft's growing arsenal; discusses optical advancements from Arelion and Infinera that sent 400Gb wavelengths over 1,800 kilometers; examine a news report that claims Tesla workers shared "highly invasive" images recorded by vehicle cameras; plus even more tech news.

You know all those Apple and other IoT devices connected to your wireless network? Lots of them run apps that discover services on your network via multicast DNS (mDNS). All of that mDNS traffic can have a significant impact on your WLAN’s performance. On today's Heavy Networking we talk with guest Bryan Ward who has actually measured the impact of mDNS on a production wireless network to see what would happen if he let mDNS traffic run wild. The post Heavy Networking 673: Multicast DNS Gone Wild On Your WLAN appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores why you need a plan for IPv6 security. Even if you haven't actively deployed IPv6, you've got v6-enabled hosts on your LAN and remote workers connecting to you over v6 networks. We discuss key elements to consider in your plan, evaluating IPv6 support in security products and services, and more.

Today on Day Two Cloud we explore what it takes to transition from traditional networking to a career as a cloud network engineer. Guest Kam Agahian shares insights from his own career journey about what's the same and what's different between on-prem and cloud networking, what skills might you want to pick up to make the transition, recommended certifications, and more.

So much wasted marketing on Digital Transformation. Was it all bollocks or was there something real underneath the bombast and hype ? The post HS044 Is Digital Transformation Bollocks ? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Network Break podcast we cover Amazon opening its Sidewalk low-power IoT wireless network to developers, Cisco putting the expiration date on Prime Infrastructure, HAProxy adding QUIC support in its enterprise load balancer, Huawei touting revenue stability, and more IT news.

Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make it, right? To handle the cognitive dissonance of impostor syndrome, we overcompensate. In doing so, we pay a personal price. Today's Heavy Networking guest is Matt Vitale. He's here to share what he's learned about coping with and overcoming imposter syndrome. The post Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk through out-of-band management network design with sponsor ZPE Systems. If your idea of OOB management is a jump box and some terminal servers, there’s a lot more to the story when you bring automation tooling into the picture. We'll learn how ZPE gear works and talk with customer Vapor IO about using ZPE gear in its edge compute sites.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we get into Secure Access Services Edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services. You can integrate parts from different vendors, but Palo Alto Networks is here to make a case for why you might want to consider a single-vendor approach. The post Tech Bytes: Choosing Single-Vendor SASE For Networking And Security (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

This week's Network Break covers Arista's new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debates whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign of problems or opportunity, and discusses an update on the size of the SASE market. We also look at an HPE acquisition, the use of exploding USBs to target journalists, space networking, and more.

Arista Networks has announced two hardware WAN routers, the 5510 and the 5310, which are targeted at branch, edge, and remote sites. The routers run EOS with a full routing stack. The new hardware can run as standard routers, or be used for SD-WAN with all the features you’d expect, including support for multiple links and app identification. Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray share what they learned in a briefing with the company and debate the strategy behind Arista's entry into the SD-WAN market. The post Briefings In Brief 103: Arista Enters The SD-WAN Arena appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions. The post Heavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we explore the topic of using IPv6 networks to provide IPv4 as a Service (IPv4aaS). Enterprises may become more interested in IPv4aaS as they connect disparate services in their environments. We discuss how IPv4aaS works, and enterprise and service provider use cases.

Today on Day Two Cloud we talk with developer Herman Martinus about his open-source blogging platform Bear. We talk about how a developer views infrastructure and operations, and how he went about building his platform.