Kurt Bales has a customer who wants to buy a new Data Centre Network and the three main networking vendors (Juniper, Cisco & Brocade) have pitched at him and the customer. Kurt then contacted the Pushers and said “This would make a great podcast to talk about how it looks, works and the … [Read more...]
Show 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics From Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
March 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Show 37 – Even More IPv6 Ready Than Last Week
March 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A short episode this week because of the daylight savings change in the US and Greg didn’t schedule things correctly. Guests Terry Slattery http://www.netcraftsmen.net Tom Hollingsworth http://networkingnerd.wordpress.com | Twitter: @NetworkingNerd John McManus … [Read more...]
PPP Show 36 – IPv6 Ready
March 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Guests Tom Hollingsworth http://networkingnerd.wordpress.com | Twitter: @NetworkingNerd John McManus http://etherealmind.com/author/mcmanusj/ | Twitter: @_johnmcmanus_ Greg Ferro http://etherealmind.com| Twitter @etherealmind Topic 1 – iPad 2 Apparently none of us are going to buy one, … [Read more...]
Show 35 – Media Markup – A Garden of Switches
March 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Intro This is Packet Pushers Media Mungle, new format were we gather people from from the technology media to sit down around the virtual workbench and look back at events with beady media eye. We’ll take closer look at what’s been happening and discuss what’s happening in a little bit more … [Read more...]
Show 34 – Breaking the Three Layer Model
February 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Guests Tom Hollingsworth http://networkingnerd.wordpress.com | Twitter: @NetworkingNerd Brandon Carroll http://globalconfig.net/ | Twitter: @brandoncarroll John McManus http://etherealmind.com/author/mcmanusj/ | Twitter: @_johnmcmanus_ Topic 1 Juniper QFabric Announcement Is this the … [Read more...]
Show 32 – Media Mungle
February 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Intro This is Packet Pushers Media Mungle, new format were we gather people from from the technology media to sit down around the virtual workbench and look back at events with beady media eye. We’ll take closer look at what’s been happening and discuss what’s happening in a little bit more … [Read more...]
Show 33 – IPv6 It All Comes Down to Money
January 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Intro With the upcoming Ipocalypse it seems like time to start discussing IPv6 in detail. Although we previously covered IPv6 in Show 21 – IPv6 for the Win! Part 1 and Show 21 – IPv6 for the Win! Part 2 we think that IPv6 is big enough to have another shot. Guests Shivlu Jain … [Read more...]
Show 31 – Don’t Take It Too Seriously
January 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Topics for this Week A mixed bag of topics this week, some from people who have written in and some more general topics. Capacity planning a firewall or router – what are the issues and technical limitations Why are we using 1Gb Ethernet ports at the access layer when we don’t need them … [Read more...]
Show 30 – HP ExpertOne Certifications
January 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This week we hear from HP on their Network Certification program. Rebekah Harvey, Director of Product Management for HP Global Certification and Learning got in the hot seat and answered our questions on their program. Many people are saying that HP Networking is likely to do well, and we may … [Read more...]
Cisco Cius versus iPad versus HP WebOS – Year of the Tablets
January 6, 2011 by 1 Comment
So we got an early set of announcements about the Cisco Cius as part of the Cisco's Virtualisation Experience Initiative Cisco VXI Clients (VXI - Cisco marketing working overtime on a snappy name there). So far, the pitch on the Cius is that it will act as a thin client to VMware VDI and XenServer … [Read more...]