Network Collectiv‪e‬ Network Collective

In this episode we will discuss the idea of SD-WAN vs. Application Acceleration and WANop.  With the proliferation of SD-WAN we’ve heard a lot of people say that SD-WAN gives you the traffic control, but does it negate the need for application acceleration or WAN optimization tools?  We attack this common misconception and discuss our stance on the matter in this episode.

Reference Links:



* https://www.riverbed.com/blogs/sd-wan-or-wan-optimization.html

* https://community.riverbed.com

* https://riverbed.com

As the world of network automation continues to evolve, we are seeing different options emerge in how we programmatically interface with our devices. In this episode we take a look at one of the newest and more interesting methods, gRPC. gRPC was developed by Google as a way to execute remote procedure calls in the orchestration of their system and includes such concepts as Protocol Buffers, authentication, bidirectional streaming, and flow control. Join us as we dive into how gRPC works, why it’s different than what you may already know, and why you may want to look into using it to orchestrate your infrastructure.



Outro Music:

Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In this episode, we talk with Dinesh Dutt, former Cisco Fellow & Cumulus Chief Scientist, and Justin Pietsch, former AWS veteran, about SuzieQ. SuzieQ is an open source network observability platform they launched last year. We talk about the general problem space of network monitoring and how the industry needs better tools to understand operational state data.

Reference Links:



* https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq

* https://suzieq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

* https://elegantnetwork.github.io/index.html





Outro Music:

Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In this episode we discuss the 80/20 rule for SaaS and IaaS, what it is according to Vince, and why you should care. Is this a temporary phenomenon due to the pandemic and WFH or is it how we should view WAN traffic from now on?  We’ll answer that question and more in this episode.

Reference Links:



* https://community.riverbed.com

* https://riverbed.com

In looking back on 2020 we think about all of the things we did to keep ourselves busy.

Some of us starting baking bread at home, some started home gardens, and if you are part of the networking twitter community you probably saw a lot of folks chasing some new certifications.

Throughout 2020, with isolation and the pandemic in full swing, networking vendors and certification facilitators found ways to serve the community by providing remote exams and free trainings.

Whether it was the need to stay busy or trying to learn something new, whatever your reason is to pursue a new certification, the question is which one?

With 2020 now behind us and our future constantly changing, which certifications will give you the biggest impact for 2021 and beyond?

In today’s episode we talk to 2 prominent networking influencers:



Ernest the “Cisco Panther” and

Yasmin Lara the “mom who can fix anything”



We’ll go over topics covering



their certification journey

how it’s positioned them to continue growth throughout the pandemic and

which certifications give you the best bang for your buck for 2021 and beyond.





Outro Music:

Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In this episode, we sit down with Ivan Pepelnjak and talk about the state of networking.  We briefly talk about cloud-networking and move onto network automation discussing the pros & cons of the various solutions and frameworks in the market highlighting the importance of extensibility.  Finally, we talk about Ivan’s new open source project targeted to simplify the process of standing up a new virtual lab environment.

Relevant Links



* https://github.com/ipspace/netsim-tools





Outro Music:

Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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