Meet FullCtl: For All Your IXP & BGP Peering Automation Needs
The Packet Pushers recently had a briefing with Chris Grundemann about startup FullCtl. FullCtl is all about network automation for internet exchanges, service providers, large enterprises, and anyone...
View ArticleCLIs Are In My Way – Abstract All The Things
Network automation: How much has actually changed over 10 years? Ethan Banks revisits his 2014 blog post about trying to move past the CLI.
View ArticleCareer Advice I’d Give To 20-, 30- and 40-Something Year Old Me
Ethan Banks gives career advice to his 20, 30, and 40 year old self.
View ArticleSD-WAN Gives Us The Best Path We Always Wanted
SD-WAN changed not only the face of wide area networking, but of networking as a whole.
View ArticlePostpone Inbox Procrastination
I think of inbox management like cleaning the catbox. Doing it every day is best. If I miss a day, it’s tolerable, but sort of gross.
View ArticleOpen Source Networking Projects: A Current List
The goal of this massive list of open source networking projects is to spread awareness of tools that might make your IT job easier. Compiled by Packet Pushers.
View ArticleClassful Routing Has Little Meaning In Modern Networking
Classful routing is a point of historical interest only. If I was preparing course material on this myself, I’d cover classful vs. CIDR in an intro module as it offers context for the terminology...
View ArticleSD-WAN, SASE, and SSE Vendors: A Reference List
Looking to compare SD-WAN vendors, along with SSE and SASE vendors? Hit up our massive reference list.
View ArticleThe Cisco Catalyst 6500 Just Ran
The Cisco of 2024 isn’t the Cisco that made the Catalyst 6500. But we remember. And many of us believe that this purchase, this gear, this time… we’ll have the 6500 back again. The new thing will just...
View ArticleThe Fat Pipe Is Going On a Diet
Packet Pushers is pulling out several of the shows we’ve been stuffing in the Fat Pipe. If you want to keep listening to these shows, subscribe to them directly.
View ArticleBriefing Report: CloudZero Makes Sure Your Cloud Spend Isn’t Wasteful
Bring engineering and finance together using a common language of unit economics to deeply analyze costs and drive more efficient solutions. How do you get this done? In part with CloudZero's SaaS...
View ArticleBriefing Report: Drut’s DX3.0 Maximizes GPU Hardware Utilization For AI...
The folks at Drut (pronounced “droot”, supply your own I am Droot jokes) have created an AI compute environment for the rest of us. Who’s the rest of us? Anyone that’s doing AI-related work–training...
View ArticleBriefing Summary: Netos Builds A Bridge Between Networking & Finance
Netos startup founder Richard Foster reached out to brief Packet Pushers about what he and his team have built. In short, Netos is a financial modeling engine for networks that rides on NetBox. That...
View ArticleBriefing Summary: Commvault’s Cloud Rewind Is More Than Data Restoration
Cloud Rewind is the new name of Appranix, which Commvault acquired in April 2024. Cloud Rewind is a key component of Commvault's "continuous business" concept. Cloud Rewind's promise is to recover your...
View ArticleDeveloping Content & Gathering Research For Your Tech Blog
I've found that writing has been the absolute best tool for me to learn a concept. There's nothing quite like trying to explain something technical in a blog that reveals the holes in my knowledge. I...
View ArticleThe Problem With Network Automation Certifications
As I’ve reviewed network automation certs, I find that they are teaching products and techniques specific to a vendor ecosystem or tool environment. There's nothing wrong with those certs. You'll learn...
View ArticleAutoCon2 Talk Summary: AI Driven Advanced Network Observability – Jeremy...
At the Network Automation Forum's AutoCon2 conference held the week of November 18, 2024, Jeremy Schulman from Major League Baseball took the stage to discuss where they are currently in their network...
View ArticleAutoCon2 Talk Summary: Comprehensive Infrastructure Automation (CIA) – Dinesh...
If network automation is a journey, are we all going to the same place? Do we want the same things? Maybe, maybe not. We need a map--a systematic way of thinking. A lexicon. Our words are not the same....
View ArticleAutoCon2 Talk Summary: Intent-Based MPLS Router and WAN Provisioning –...
At the Network Automation Forum‘s AutoCon2 conference held the week of November 18, 2024, Matthew Deibel from Southern California Edison, a large American power company, took the stage to discuss their...
View ArticleAutoCon2 Talk Summary: Step 0: Test the Network! – Danny Wade
At the Network Automation Forum‘s AutoCon2 conference held the week of November 18, 2024, Daniel Wade took on testing for network automation. Sure, you want to push a network configuration change. That...
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