Someone made a comment that Packet Pushers hasn't discussed SPB. Trusting the IEEE ? I don't trust the IEEE to transparently develop and deliver a standard. It's closed forums, secret meetings, and lack of transparency are a major concern. Add that to very poor results for delivering standards in … [Read more...]
Show 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics From Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
March 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 28 – IT Is About SKILLS Not Business
December 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week on the Packet Pushers we had Guests Josh O’Brien http://staticnat.com http://networktherapy.wordpress.com http://www.jeremyfilliben.com/ @jfilliben Marko MILIVOJEVIC http://markom.info @icemarkom Topics Discussed Matthew recently posted about Myths of IT … [Read more...]
Show 28 – vCloud Network Overlays, OTV, VEPA and Networking Appliances
December 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It was planned to have a discussion around L2 Data Centre connection the VMworld in Copenhagen but Scott and I could not meetup. So we recorded this podcast to start talking about some of the issues, technology and solutions. I’m not sure that we have all the technology or knowledge in place, so … [Read more...]
Show 27 – Layer 2 Data Centre Interconnection
December 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Scott Lowe and I planned to have a discussion around L2 Data Centre connection the VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen but Scott and I could not meetup. So we recorded this podcast to start talking about some of the issues, technology and solutions on L2 DCI. I’m not sure that we have all the technology or … [Read more...]
Show 17 – Big Hot and Heavy Switches – Part 2
August 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A detailed look at the Big, Hot and Heavy Ethernet Switches with a large crew to talk about their practical experiences on design, selection and performance of Cisco Nexus switches. The result ? We don’t think the Nexus switches are very exciting. Due to people commitments we recorded a double … [Read more...]
Show 16 – Big Hot and Heavy Switches – Part 1
August 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A detailed look at the Big, Hot and Heavy Ethernet Switches with a large crew to talk about their practical experiences on design, selection and performance of Cisco Nexus switches. The result ? We don’t think the Nexus switches are very exciting, HP Flex10 modules are a problem, and so much … [Read more...]
Runt Packet – Arista Networks and Data Centre Switching
August 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Greg has asked Doug Gourlay from Arista Networks to get his feet under the workbench and talk about Arista Networks. A reasonably new vendor to community, Arista have a unique approach to building Ethernet switches that are software driven for enhanced data centre management and better … [Read more...]
Runt Packet – Cisco Fabric Path
July 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and hard hitting. And we are going to call it, in Packet Pushers … [Read more...]
Packet Pushers – Show 5 – Deep Diving on Data Centre Switching – Trill, RBridges, and Ethernet – Oh My
May 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We started out looking at new Juniper switches after this article on the Register Juniper rolls out multi-product attack on Cisco Somehow we got into discussion of Data Centre switches and then we started deep diving into Data Centre Ethernet and the Death of Spanning Tree. On the way we took a … [Read more...]