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00:00 Introduction

02:30 Nathan flies to Malaysia

13:00 Discussing SD-access and switching



In this episode, Nathan Pan, Switching and SD-access Technical Leader, tells us about his trip onsite to Malaysia. We engage on a long discussion about Cisco SD-access as well as the evolution of switching technologies.

00:00 Intro

02:06 Justin Roberts



In this episode, we interview Justin Roberts, Technical Leader in Next-Gen Firewalls in the US. He takes us, in a very technical episode, through the artchitecture of Cisco Firewalls, how they work and how performance and security are two concepts that are very related. In this story, a customer is seeing applications performance issues after the start of Covid as employees all work from home. However, load is not the problem and their beefy security appliances should handle it without any problem. Where could the problem be ?

00:00 Intro

00:59 Welcome

01:57 Jaro's story

16:20 Ivan's story

31:56 Rik's story



Today, we interview Jaroslaw Gawron, Ivan Shirshin and Rik Boven. They tell us their stories but one of them is made up. Will you be able to guess which one ? Between database drops, a crystal farm and a blackhole generator, hard to know ...

In this episode, Steven Janssens takes us through his most memorable Collaboration mysteries.In
one story, Steven is faced with random Webex endpoints disconnecting
with no other logs than "user disconnected session" but the user swears
they didn't disconnect. Is there a ghost involved ?The other story
involves latency troubleshooting in peak hours and load measuring. The
server should have plenty enough power but somehow is still not able to
cope with the load ?

Today, we host Philip Smeuninx, Principal Engineer in Collaboration technologies in CX.

He tells us stories about missed upgrades during christmas, missing ski vacations with the family as well as hunting for a lost call manager chassis in the logistics chain.

We receive our audio editor but first of all DataCenter guru Kris Vandecruys. He tells us about SAN and the storage technologies, FiberChannel, the difference between NAS and SAN as well as the time where an SNMP monitoring script killed the whole datacenter.