Sometimes when looking at new enterprise IT products, it’s important to remember how we derive meaning from words. If we look back to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, we of course know that the spoken or written word, the actual word itself, is a signifier. That is to say, it points toward something. What […]
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4 Possible Outcomes For Brocade’s IP Networking Business
By now, you’ve probably heard that Brocade was purchased by Broadcom (if you haven’t… I’m sorry to break it to you this way). But what you might not have heard is that Broadcom plans to sell off Brocade’s IP networking business. Drew Conry-Murray at Packet Pushers breaks down how this sale might go down. In […]
Enabling The Most Remote Offices With Viptela
This is post 2 of 5 in the series “Viptela SD-WAN Tech Talk Fall 2016” I had a chance to sit in on the recording of a special episode of the Packet Pushers podcast that discussed the ways that Viptela has been helping organizations improve their WAN and offer additional services to their customers, both […]
Show 153 — Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day
Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers posts a combined PPP/Tech Field Day podcast: At Cisco Live US 2013, we were able to get together a nice group of folks to share their opinions on the announcements we found most interesting. You’ll know some of them from Tech Field Day, an event Greg and I have […]
Show 40 — Openflow — Upending the Network Industry
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This show is an introduction to OpenFlow – the why, how and what’s it gonna do ? Â We discuss OpenFlow with Matt Davey from Indiana University who is using OpenFlow enabled switches and wireless access points today. The concept of a controller based LAN network is a powerful idea, and the OpenFlow Network Foundation has […]
Show 39 — Unplugged on Tech Field Day Wireless
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The rise in mobile devices such as iPads, HP tablets and more means that Wireless Networking is becoming part of the mainstream for network engineers. You can’t ignore it anymore. When we got an invitation to the very first ever Wireless Tech Field Day in San Jose on March 17 & 18 , then we […]
Show 38 — Comparing Data Centre Fabrics From Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
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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 reality of […]
Show 37 — Even More IPv6 Ready Than Last Week
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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 http://etherealmind.com/author/mcmanusj/ | Twitter: @_johnmcmanus_ Matthew Norwood http://networktherapy.wordpress.com @matthewnorwood and last, and the very least. Greg Ferro http://etherealmind.com| Twitter @etherealmind Topic 1 – Cisco UC […]
PPP Show 36 — IPv6 Ready
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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, because we’ve already got one. Topic 2 – What is Cloud Computing Although we tire of talking about Cloud Computing, it’s seem that there […]
Show 35 — Media Markup — A Garden of Switches
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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 detail. We got a list of topics to discuss and here is who’s who in the zoo today.