The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods

Welcome to the Tech Bytes podcast from the Packet Pushers. AppNeta is our sponsor, and we’re going to talk about IT accountability in the age of network transformation. More and more applications are moving to the cloud, but IT is still on the hook for service delivery and user experience. Our guests from AppNeta are John Tewfik, Principal Solutions Consultant; and Alec Pinkham, Director of Product Marketing.

Forward Networks builds a real-time software model of your data center network that you can use to verify intent, test changes, and speed troubleshooting. Forward is sponsoring this Tech Bytes episode. Our guest is Nikhil Handigol, co-founder of Forward, and we’re going to talk about the state of network verification and where the technology is heading.

In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss one of IT networking's biggest challenges, IP renumbering, and how IPv6 impacts (and is impacted by) it. Anyone who's ever had to do a significant IPv4 renumbering project knows just how labor intensive and painful this process can be. Will it be easier with IPv6? If so, how and why?

Our sponsor today is Silver Peak, and we’re talking about how to improve QoE using SD-WAN with their customer C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocer in the United States. Our guest is Leonard Bernstein, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Service Delivery.

Spectro Cloud is Kubernetes management. But...that's really oversimplifying it, especially with the hundreds of offerings that have something to with Kubernetes management or KaaS. If I'm being more precise, Spectro Cloud is about managing an entire infrastructure stack that's built around Kubernetes.

The US FCC has announced its intention to release the 6Ghz spectrum for unlicensed use in an upcoming vote. I spoke with Keith Parsons who is deeply involved in the process and years of experience on the process to find out more.

Today's Tech Bytes podcast tackles SD-WAN with sponsor Oracle. We examine how SD-WAN supports multi-cloud management, fail-safe network automation, more secure connections, and application fluency. Our guest is Doug Tait, Director of Product Marketing.

Rancher has announced version 2.4, which might seem like...meh...no big deal. Companies publish incremental software releases all the time. Well, Rancher 2.4 is interesting because it indicates where Kubernetes is heading. That is...Kubernetes everywhere, running production workloads. In your data center. At the edge. In the public cloud.

In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, we discuss the path from learning IPv6 to teaching it with Nicole Wajer, a Technical Solution Architect at Cisco and a frequent presenter at CiscoLive. She's an expert on IPv6 training.

Terraform Cloud, from HashiCorp, is a SaaS-based service that provides governance, auditing, and collaboration for your infrastructure-as-code initiatives. Our guest to walk us through Terraform Cloud is Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp.

As more employees work from home, organizations are struggling with the rollout and support of remote work forces. On today's Tech Bytes podcast we walk through the four phases of scaling up remote workers with our sponsor, Viavi Solutions. Viavi provides network performance monitoring and visibility products. Our guest is Bill Proctor, Customer Success Manager at Viavi.

Robin Gilijamse deployed a 10000 user remote working VPN in about 4 weeks. We briefly discuss the design and some lessions learned from the project.

AppNeta combines path, packet, Web, and flow data to provide a detailed picture of end user performance. In this sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we discuss how AppNeta works, how performance visibility can help organizations move from fighting fires to proactive remediation, the value of synthetic transactions, and more. Our guests from AppNeta are John Tewfik, Principal Solutions Consultant; and Alec Pinkham, Director of Product Marketing.

In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom discuss deploying end-user wireless IPv6 with Charlie Clemmer, a principal network engineer with HPE/Aruba and regular WLPC presenter. We talk about how to get started, key tools and utilities to help with deployment, and more.

Could COVID19 lead to walk back from public cloud ? A discussion with Mike Dvorkin.

Today’s Tech Bytes talks multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. We look at how Aviatrix provides common network operations across public clouds, providing essential visibility and control. Our guest is Rod Stuhlmuller, VP of Product Marketing at Aviatrix.

Today's Tech Bytes podcast explores end user experience with sponsor ThousandEyes. ThousandEyes offers end point agents that measuring application experience and network performance from the end-user perspective. These agents capture real-time session data or run scheduled synthetic tests to provide visibility into the performance of SaaS applications as well as local network conditions.

In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, we talk to Cody Christman about managing networks with IPv6 using the critical transition/translation technology NAT64. We cover why overlapping IPv4 addresses are a big driver for using NAT64, the technical debt of IPv4 NAT, how IPv6 re-simplifies networking, and more.

On today's Tech Bytes podast we talk with sponsor CodiLime about the benefits of SDN, how SDN works, and CodiLime's network engineering services that help organizations of all sizes migrate to SDN. Our guest Monika Antoniak, head of R&D at CodiLime.

On today's Tech Bytes we discuss the essential role that visibility plays in network security. Riverbed is our sponsor. We explore how Riverbed brings together logs, flow records, and packet capture to provide a full-fidelity view from multiple angles to help you respond to analyze security events. Our guests are Marco Di Benedetto, SVP and CTO; and Vincent Berk, VP and Chief Architect for Security at Riverbed.

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.

On today's Tech Bytes we talk with J-U-B Engineers, Inc., about how the company boosted employee productivity with an SD-WAN from Silver Peak. Silver Peak is our sponsor. Our guest is Tory Adams, Director of Information Technology at J-U-B Engineers.

Eric Chou, author of Master Python Networking Third Edition, discusses what's new in this edition of the book. Quite a lot!

The best way to learn IPv6 is to get it into the lab and play with it. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we share advice, learnings, and tips on building a lab and getting your hands dirty with this protocol.

In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom talk in depth about IPv6 Router Advertisements (or RAs), what they are, what they do, and why they're critical to IPv6 operations.

If you're looking for a way to bring IPv6 into your environment, the WLAN may be your best bet. Find out why in the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz with guest Jeffry Handal. Jeffry cut his teeth with an early v6 deployment on the wireless network of Louisiana State University (LSU). This WLAN serves 40,000 users and over 100,000 devices. He shares his experiences and talks about how vendor adoption of v6 had advanced since that deployment.

The Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE) recently announced its supply of public IPv4 addresses was officially depleted. In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss what that means and why it's impactful for companies everywhere. We also discuss the history of IPv4 address exhaustion and why IPv6 is key to avoiding or mitigating the negative effects.

From the virtually limitless supply of IPv6 addressing to good vendor support to IPv6-only efforts and beyond, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss what they’re most thankful for when it comes to IPv6 in this holiday episode of IPv6 Buzz.

This week's IPv6 Buzz discusses getting IPv6 into enterprise wireless environments. We discuss what proper vendor support for v6 looks like, evaluate the impact of a lack of DHCPv6 support in Android, why running dual stack is more work than a clean cutover, and more. Our guest is Joe Neville, a technical consultant at HPE Aruba.

Today's episode explores how the US federal government views IPv6 adoption. We also explore the use of IPv6 by the U.S. Department of Defense, including innovations, and how the DoD's use affects its work with civilian entities. Our guest is Jeremy Duncan, founder and leading partner of the consultancy Tachyon Dynamics.

Today's IPv6 Buzz dives into IPv6 special addresses--what they are, how they're used in production, potential issues, and more.

In this IPv6 Buzz episode we discuss IPv4 special address ranges, the reasons behind efforts to make them globally routable, and what impact this is likely to have on IPv6 adoption.

Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset because the market for v4 address space is rising. The question is, for how long? Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6 Buzz podcast crew to discuss the financial implications of selling IPv4 addresses. They also discuss the performance and operational benefits of moving to IPv6.

AWS regards IPv6 as a key mechanism to enable customer agility, and to meet rising demands from new applications and devices, particularly IoT. In this episode, Scott and Tom interview Alan Halachmi, Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. They discuss current and planned IPv6 support in AWS services, the cloud provider's challenges in deploying the protocol, and advice for cloud users on adopting IPv6.

ARIN is the official network numbers register for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as ASNs, for North America. The IPv6 Buzz crew talk with Mark Kosters, ARIN's CTO, about its role in providing IPv6 address resources, policy, and advocacy.

LinkedIn has been working with IPv6 for years. On today's IPv6 Buzz episode, LinkedIn engineer Franck Martin discusses the technical and cultural challenges of adoption, explores why the company engaged with IPv6, and shares lessons to help others with their own deployments.

Learn about how IPv6 works on host OSs on today's IPv6 Buzz podcast. Tom Coffeen and Scott Hogg talk with Ed Horley about the host OS course he's teaching. They discuss how to set up a lab, how v6 differs from v4 at the host level, key differences in support for DHCPv6, and more.

Objections to IPv6 adoption tend to follow three tracks: we don't need it, we don't have budget, and we'll lose the security and multihoming benefits of NAT. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Dr. David Holder explains why these objections don't hold water, and how to communicate with business and technical leaders to overcome them.

Your v6s are here--where do you want 'em? On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, guest Tim Rooney dives into IPv6 address planning and management for IT teams that are just getting started.

Shannon McFarland discusses IPv6 and container networking on today's IPv6 Buzz podcast episode. We look at the state of v6 support in containers and orchestration platforms, how v6 addressing works with containers, the role of service meshes, and much more.

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses key approaches to getting IPv6 deployed in the enterprise. Guest Enno Rey talks about how to identify quick wins, being liberal and flexible as you deploy, and more. The IPv6 crew also talks about IPv6 security, and Enno shares highlights from his recent RIPE78 presentation.

The IPv6 Buzz crew talks MAP-T, MAP-E and Happy Eyeballs with Andrew Yourtchenko, co-author of the original Happy Eyeballs RFC. We discuss the role of Happy Eyeballs given current rates of IPv6 adoption, the differences between MAP-T and MAP-E, and more.

College instructor and author Rick Graziani stops by the IPv6 Buzz podcast to talk about teaching IPv6, including the differences between teaching college students and training IT professionals, how networking and IT are taught in universities and community colleges, and more.

The Packet Pushers stop by the IPv6 Buzz studios for a follow-up conversation with Tom Coffeen and Ed Horley on IPv6 address planning, including why nibble boundaries are so useful for subnetting, use cases for PI and PA address spaces, and tool recommendations.

State and regional IPv6 task forces advocate for IPv6 adoption by state governments and the private sector, and educate engineers. In today's episode we chat with George Usi, the Co-Chair of the California IPv6 Task Force to learn more about the task force's goals and what it's achieved to date.

There are a few critical security differences between IPv4 and IPv6, including host addressing and extension headers. In today's IPv6 Buzz episode, we examine these differences, and other v6 security issues, with guest Eric Vyncke, a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and co-author of the book "IPv6 Security."

Today's episode of IPv6 Buzz answers listener questions including why NAT isn't necessary for security, and the feasibility of scanning a v6 network to discover devices. Thanks for the questions and keep them coming!

In today's episode we make sense of IPv6 protocol analysis with expert teacher and troubleshooter Denise Fishburne. We discuss the importance of using a protocol analyzer and packet captures to better understand IPv6, and how to get over your fear of learning this protocol.

In the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz we examine IPv6 deployment among cable providers. We'll discuss industry trends, financial and technical drivers for adoption, and how the cable industry is working to transition IPv4 out of the providers' access and distribution networks. Our guest is Dan Torbet.

On today's IPv6 Buzz we examine the influence of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in today's technology landscape, particularly around the Internet Protocol (IP). Our guest is Fred Baker, emeritus chair of the IETF.