It's roundtable time! Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ discuss several different topics, including the broader market implications for the changes going on at Broadcom and VMWare, balancing the cloud (they float!), reacting to the hype, and whether IP addresses will even be important in ten years. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-250.mp3 download

Alistair Woodman joins Tom and Russ to talk about the current state of the FR Routing open source routing stack project. Like all software projects, FR Routing has entered a bit of a "middle phase," with a focus on maintenance and stability rather than new features and protocols.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-249.mp3   download

Do you procrastinate too much? I know I do. Why do we procrastinate, and what strategies can we use to stop it? Terry Kim joins Eyvonne Sharp and Russ White to consider procrastination.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-248.mp3   download

SONiC has been around for a while--is there a solid commercial play for this open-source operating system? If so, what is it? What is the future for open-source and other network operating systems? Mike Bushong joins Tom Ammon, Eyvonne Sharp, and Russ White to discuss SONiC and open source network operating systems.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-247.mp3   download

In this roundtable episode of the Hedge, Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ discuss complexity and deployment. Why do some protocols fail to deploy, or require decades, while others deploy quickly? https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-246.mp3 download

RADIUS is one of those protocols we tend to forget about because it is ubiquitous--but authentication protocols are very large attack surfaces network engineers should pay more attention to. Alan DeKok joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the RADIUS protocol. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-245.mp3 download

What are the requirements for running AI workloads over a data center fabric? Why is InfiniBand so popular for building AI networks? What about Ethernet for AI? Jeff Tantsura joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss networks for AI workloads. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-244.mp3 download

The cellular network world is similar enough to the IP networking world to feel familiar, but different enough to require learning new terms and ideas. Tom Nadeau joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss one element of this networking world, the RAN network, and the current move towards open source and white box disaggregated solutions. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-243.mp3 download

In the early days of computer programming, some thought there was a difference between a coder and a programmer. Did this division ever really exist, and are there similar divisions in network engineering? https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-242.mp3 download

When Starlink first went into service we heard a lot of stories about how its Internet service was slow and unreliable. We're a few years into Starlink launching satellites--how is Starlink holding up? Is service improving? Geoff Huston joins Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ to look into Starlink's performance today. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-241.mp3 download

Many network operators think the idea of building rather than buying is something that's out of reach--but is it? Join Steve Dodd, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ as we discuss the positive and negative aspects of build versus buy, what operators get wrong, and what operators don't often expect. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-240.mp3 dlownload

There are (at least) three different aspects of AI in network engineering: network design to support AI, AI for development, and AI for operations. J.P. Vassuer joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss AI for understanding and operating networks. What are the possibilities? What are the pitfalls? What can we expect to see? https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-239.mp3 download

The massive failure resulting from a failed update to 8.5 million Windows hosts by Crowdstrike will live in Internet history for years to come. The failure will be studied by engineering teams and college classes to understand what went wrong and how we can stop this from happening in the future. Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad), Eyvonne Sharp, Tom Ammon, and Russ White hang out at the hedge to talk about what happened and lessons learned from a network engineering...

Looking at changes in the market in the last ten years, it certainly seems like vendors work less toward innovation and more towards locking customers in to revenue streams. Chris Emerick, Dave Taht, and Russ White decided it's time to talk about. What's wrong with vendors? And since everything can't be wrong with vendors, where are they doing the right thing?   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-237.mp3   download

Eyvonne and Russ catch up with Greg Ferro one last time to talk about the permissionless Internet--a thing of the past--vendor lock in, and many other random topics on this episode of the Hedge. Greg--here's to a grand time in the future. We'll miss you. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-236.mp3 download

Join us as Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ hang out for another roundtable. We start the show talking about Tom's plant (is it real or ... ??). What does copyright have to do with Internet Service Providers? Should the two topics be related at all? What can the IETF do about Internet centralization? Thanks for listening—and please reach out if you have a topic you'd like to hear about, or a guest you'd like to...

We often hear about how there simply aren't enough tech people out there--especially in cybersecurity. Rex Booth, CISO at Sailpoint, joins Tom and Russ to discuss the problem, and why we should be looking in unconventional places to find the right people. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-234.mp3 download

Data centers turn large amounts of electricity into heat. Is it possible to recover even some part of this heat rather than throwing it off into the local environment? David Krebs of masterresource.org brings his vast experience with using heat from engines to bear on the problem to propose solutions. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-233.mp3 download

If you've ever wondered what the process of creating and publishing a book is like, listen in as Aninda joins Tom and Russ to discuss the trials and rewards of publishing his first book, Deploying Juniper Data Centers with EVPN VXLAN.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-232.mp3   download

We often think of decoupling, or modularization in network engineering speak, as a primary tool for scaling networks, but it also one of the best tools network engineers have to increase security. In this roundtable, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ discuss an article by Bruce Schneier on decoupling, and how it applies to networking engineering.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-231.mp3   download

You will probably be laid off at least once in your career--we no longer live a world of "permanent positions," or even a world where people are in complete control of their "work destiny." It's important, then, to prepare to be laid off, made redundant, or impacted by a RIF, today. Mike Bushong joins Eyvonne Sharp, Tom Ammon, and Russ White in a wide-ranging discussion about preparing to be laid...

What is QUIC? Where did it come from? Why has it been successfully deployed where so many other protocols have either taken forever or flat-out failed? George Michaelson (of APNIC fame) joins Tom Ammon and Russ White on this episode of the Hedge to (quickly) talk about QUIC.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-229.mp3   download

Miscommunication between techies and business leaders are often caused by misunderstanding. Listen in as Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ discuss these misunderstandings and how we can address them.   https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-228.mp3   download

Europe and the United States are completely different landscapes of Internet service providers. Which provides better service for customers, and which direction should these different markets go? Luke Kehoe joins Tom Ammon, Eyvonne Sharp, and Russ White to discuss the European market specifically, and why the European market needs consolidation. Luke's article on this topic is here. https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-227.mp3 download