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What about changing the work we do ? Perhaps with orchestration / automation and even AI ? So many questions, not many answers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking WAN architectures and how to simplify and secure them with sponsor Cloudflare. Cloudflare's Magic WAN is a network-as-a-service offering. Customers can connect data centers, branches, and users to Cloudflare's private network; add security services; and integrate with third-party SD-WANs. The post Tech Bytes: Cloudflare Simplifies Wide Area Networks With Magic WAN (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

This week's Network Break podcast discuss Intel's roadmap for its Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs). We get more insight into Nokia's deal to provide hardware for Azure, and examine why Juniper has extended its Contrail SDN platform to Kubernetes (hint: because of the cloud). Plus Cisco releases new Wi-Fi capabilities.

Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores two new offerings from sponsor Palo Alto Networks. First is Okyo Garde, a home wireless mesh appliance to connect and secure remote workers while reducing the management burden from IT. We also discuss a new licensing program to make provisioning bandwidth for branch and remote offices for Prisma SD-WAN simpler and more flexible.

Today's Day Two Cloud digs into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform called Pulumi. Pulumi can be used to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications using familiar languages such as .Net and Java, as well as well-known tools and practices.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into sponsor Nokia's Digital Sandbox, which creates a real-time model of a data center network by extracting state and configuration from leaf and spine switches. Network engineers can use this model to test and validate changes. We discuss how the sandbox works and how it ties into Nokia's approach to intent-based networking. The post Tech Bytes: How Nokia’s Digital Sandbox Enhances Intent-Based Automation (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Take a Network Break! This week we cover a vulnerable implementation of a TLS module that affects switches from HPE Aruba and Extreme Networks' Avaya brand, Cisco teases a forthcoming technology called Predictive Networks that promises analytics and automated problem-solving, Fortinet announces new firewalls, and more IT news.

Today's Heavy Networking dives into data center fabrics with guest Russ White. We discuss just what makes a data center fabric, why the industry relies too much on BGP, fabric alternatives and options, the future of data center fabrics, and more. Russ is a network architect, author, and instructor.

In this episode of IPv6 Buzz Ed, Scott, and Tom celebrate 100 episodes of this podcast with two special guests: the Packet Pushers' very own Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro.

Welcome to the Tech Bytes podcast. VMware is our sponsor, and we’re discussing vRealize Network Insight Universal, the SaaS version of vRealize Network Insight. We look at how it can help with your cloud migration project. The post Tech Bytes: Flexible Cloud Migration Using VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's Day Two Cloud explores the Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open-source project that serves as a policy engine for cloud-native environments. According to the OPA Web site, you can use OPA to "enforce policies in microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, and more." Guest Anders Eknert walks through how it works, use cases, and more.

Contracts are caveat emptor but the client often knows little about the what they are buying and why.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Fortinet, we’re going to dig into Fortinet’s campus and branch switching and wireless LAN portfolio. You might think of Fortinet primarily as a firewall company, but they do much more. The post Tech Bytes: Switching On Fortinet’s Wired, Wireless Portfolio (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

This week's Network Break discusses quantum key distribution, a startup getting millions to develop an enterprise SONiC distribution, Juniper expanding free cert training, quarterly financial results, and more tech news.

On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Pluribus Networks. Pluribus can extend networking and security services directly to smartNICs/DPUs via its Unified Cloud Fabric to improve performance, visibility, and security. We talk with Mike Capuano and Alessandro Barbieri from Pluribus on how it all works.

Today's Day Two Cloud explores the vastness of IPv6 and public cloud. IPv6 provides so much address space that you can use an address once for one connection and never use it again, and it isn't wasteful. The abundance of IPv6 may influence how you approach cloud applications and networks.

This week's Network Break podcast discusses Nokia deal to sell switch hardware to Microsoft running the SONiC network OS. We also cover Dell's 4.0 release of its Enterprise SONiC distribution, a test of hollowcore fiber optics by Comcast, the British government making rules about watching TV in self-driving cars, and more tech news.

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast gets into networking and security. More specifically, despite what you might hear about cloud taking over, the network still matters, and is essential to an organization’s security strategy, especially as cloud adoption and remote work drive the need for hybrid IT. We’re going to address this topic with sponsor Fortinet. The post Tech Bytes: Why The Network Is Essential For Securing Hybrid IT (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

The business benefits of network automation are sometimes lost in discussion about technology and tools. Guest Tim Fiola joins this episode of Heavy Networking to discuss how to engage the business at a cultural level so that network automation is properly embraced and supported by management.

In this episode of IPv6 Buzz we talk about what a Proof of Concept (PoC) lab is and why you probably need one as part of your IPv6 initiative. We discuss technical challenges and considerations, how much of your production network you need to model, learning opportunities that come with a lab, and more.