In this episode, Tim Szigeti, Distinguished Engineer talks to us about Quantum computing, the latest progresses and what are the potential impact and opportunities it creates. We also discuss what is Cisco doing in the Quantum field.
In this episode, Frederic Detienne, a Distinguished Cisco CX Engineer takes us through the evolution of cryptography in IT, the latest changes and challenges as well as the quantum problem and post-quantum cryptography.
In this episode, Kendra Dodson, CX Technical Leader in the RTP TAC, tells us about the SD-WAN technology and her personal troubleshooting stories : counter overflow, packet over-fragmentation and sudden config loss. We also discuss the future of WAN technologies
In this episode we interview Roberto Petrillo who works for Cisco Product Security Incident Response team. He works on and assesses vulnerabilities on all Cisco products. He tells us about his career in TAC support web security and his move to PSIRT, working on vulnerability disclosures.
In this episode, Brandon tells us about the time a critical problem surfaced the day before the Cisco Live US event started and how the clock started ticking to find an acceptable solution for the next day. We also discuss how he prepares the event network for Cisco Live.
In this episode, we host Dimitar Dimitrov a Collaboration expert in Webex Calling who tells us a story about dead air. All calls are working fine except sometimes, people can't hear each other at all. From a classic problem description, they end up troubleshooting the whole network hunting after the lost packets. Dimitar also works with AI and tells us about his role in shaping the future of Cisco AI Tech Support
In this episode, we receive Regis Baudin, Technical Leader for the CXLabs department in Europe. He is responsible for the operations of the biggest lab of the continent (Cisco has bigger labs in the US and Bangalore) and explains to us what are the challenges of hosting a gigantic lab where hundreds or thousands of engineers come to reproduce customer issues
A special Cisco Live EMEA Amsterdam episode where Nico interviews NOC team members on how they manage to deploy an entire network in a matter of days.
In this episode, we interview Jonathan Slenders, lead python developer at Cisco who takes us on adventure along his automation tools developped before and during his Cisco tenure. We discuss how terrible networking engineers are at coding and how we can reconcile both worlds.
Richard Yates, Service provider Technical Leader, tells us about his career story. Starting from the air force and analog phone switchboards through all the wireless technologies like CDMA, 3G, WiMAX to 5G. This long episode covers life lessons, technology anecdotes, insane stories and much much more.
We interview Devon Herron, a Splunk support engineer based in the UK. Devon only handles network down P1 situations and he has seen a few doozies during his career.
He takes us through storage troubleshooting, hypervisor shenanigans and of course automation going bananas. Follow us on this journey to discover Splunk and how it can change your life as a network engineer.
In this episode, we interview Jean Francois Dive : threat hunting for Cisco internal Security. He takes us through the stakes of a few very recent and famous hacks.
In this episode, we interview Alain Lanssiers, Service Provider Technical Leader at Cisco CX who knows more protocols than anyone around here. One day he casually decides to code a new feature for a protocol that was already old back then ...
Special episode where we interview 3 engineers : Tristan, Jaroslav and Maren who troubleshooted network issues on boats and cruise ships. Some even had to go on site on the cruise ... there could be worse interventions probably.
In this episode, Esther Roure Villa remembers her days of troubleshooting Service Providers and spanning-tree loops. Esther is now a Sustainability Lead at Cisco and explains to us why it's way more technical than just a few buzzwords for good measure.
In this episode, we host our first non-Cisco guest Richard Atkin from ITGL. He tells us how he combines network engineering and programming in his job role with the help of Cisco RADKit, a free tool provided by Frederic Detienne whom we also invited on this episode ! When you have random access points crashing in your network, how can you automate the troubleshooting and more importantly expedite a solution ?
Find out more at radkit.cisco.com
In this episode, Tiago Antunes takes remote troubleshooting to the next level where guiding someone collecting a wireless packet capture on site allows to figure out who is messing up with the warehouse Wi-Fi network.
00:00-Introduction
1:12-Tiago Antunes
1:50-Warehouse Wi-Fi shenanigans
18:40-Talking Web Summit
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 ...
