Interop Radio: The Network Beyond SDN

If you follow the enterprise networking press (and really, why wouldn't you?) then you would be excused for thinking that SDN is the only thing that matters in the world of moving bits from place to place. The truth, though, is that the vast majority of networks deployed today are still defined by switches, routers, and old-fashioned configuration methods rather than by software.

In this episode of Interop Radio we'll be talking about all the networks that aren't SDN and why these "traditional" networks are still important -- and still evolving. Our guest, Ethan Banks, is co-host of the popular Packet Pushers Podcast and a speaker in the conference at Interop Las Vegas. What sort of thing might we discuss? We could start with one of these:

• Improving communications between IT & business stakeholders.
• IPv6 - coming of age, finally?
• Should your network mirror cloud scale architecture?
• Troubleshooting skills matter more than ever for networkers.

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials, high tech, and medical since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen millions of downloads and reaches over 10K listeners worldwide.

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