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Take a Network Break! We start with some FU (follow up) from previous Network Break and Heavy Networking episodes, then dive into Cisco's big ThousandEyes acquisition and financial updates.

Just as we're getting comfortable with Wi-Fi 6, along comes 6E, an extension that enables the use of newly available unlicensed spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band (at least here in the US). Our guest to introduce us to Wi-Fi 6E is Wes Purvis. We discuss the properties of the spectrum, how it might be used, when to expect products, and more.

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast gets into the nerdy details of how an infrastructure professional can use GitHub Actions. Actions lets you chain together steps or instructions and trigger them to run as a workflow. Our guest and guide to GitHub Actions is Chris Wahl.

Lots to cover in this week's Network Break podcast, including a consortium of telcos and Facebook laying new undersea cable in Africa, new features for service providers and enterprises in Cisco's ACI 5.0, why Intel bought Rivet Networks, software and Wi-Fi for contact tracing, AT&T getting called on misleading 5G advertising, and more.

Perhaps the most arcane technology in networking is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which, despite its name, is one of the utmost confusing pieces of technology to actually use. Guests Michael W. Lucas and Allan Jude share tips and lessons on how to get the most you can out of this protocol.

On today's Day Two Cloud we tackle the practical aspects of private cloud, including designing the infrastructure and creating policies before you start racking gear, and why thinking about services is critical. Our guest is Brett Johnson, a Senior Consultant at VMware.

Today's Network Break asks if enterprises want a supported SONiC network OS, Microsoft acquires Metaswitch Networks, VMware buys Kubernetes security platform Octarine, Cisco announces quarterly results, and more tech news.

Heavy Networking gets nerdy about disaggregation with sponsor DriveNets. The company's Network Cloud routing software runs on whitebox hardware and enables service providers and telcos to quickly scale capacity, control capital outlay, and support automation. Our guests are Amir Krayden, VP R&D Customers; and Yuval Moshe, VP of Products.

If you're thinking about migrating applications from your data center to the cloud, prepare to do a lot of planning. Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into the gritty details with guest Sarah Lean, a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. We discuss migration business drivers, what apps are better off staying on prem, tips to minimize migration pain, and more.

Today's Network Break analyzes NVIDIA's purchase of Cumulus Networks, boggles at Innovium's announced 25.6Tbps ASIC, and parses why Arista will support the SONiC network OS on its switches. We also cover a new 5G lobbying organization, Zoom's Keybase acquisition, financial results, and more tech news.

On today's Heavy Networking podcast, guest Cory Steele visits the podcast to make the case that overlays such as LISP offer unique benefits for the network. Greg Ferro disagrees, and makes the case for protocols like QUIC, TLS, and IPSec, and argues for the concept of end-to-end connectivity as the IP network was intended.

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast storms into your podcast player with product news from VMware, SolarWinds, and startup Pensando. Ethan Banks attended a virtual Cloud Field Day event where vendors with cloudy products showcased their wares. Ethan and Ned share highlights from those presentations, discuss pros and cons of the products, and tease out a theme: solving problems related to distributing computing.

The latest Network Break podcast examines NVIDIA's just-completed Mellanox acquisition, beta testing dates from SpaceX, the latest version of Cumulus Networks' NetQ management software, plus quarterly financial news for Juniper, Microsoft, and Amazon

In this brief chat, Ethan & Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used and check out outtro too.

On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk about building a unified network infrastructure with Aruba. Best known for wireless, Aruba also has a portfolio of data center and campus switches, SD-WAN, and an access control and policy enforcement system to bring it all together. Our guests are Keerti Melkote, Aruba President and Founder; and Michael Dickman, Senior Vice President and GM of Switching.

Day Two Cloud dives into the health and performance of the global cloud during the pandemic. Sponsor ThousandEyes measures, collects, and reports on Internet performance, giving it a unique perspective into how cloud providers are faring region by region, provider by provider, and service by service. Our guests are Archana Kesavan, Director of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.

The FCC makes swathes of new spectrum available for Wi-Fi, Arista upgrades its WLAN software, Cisco and Google announce plans to partner on an SD-WAN solution for Google Cloud, Google rolls out a remote access product for the enterprise, and more tech news analysis on today's Network Break podcast.

Today's Heavy Networking looks at the impact of Covid-19 on Internet usage and capacity with two guests who have front-row views: Neil McRae, Senior Leader at British Telecom; and Dave Temkin, VP of Infrastructure at Netflix.

We get the architectural nitty-gritty on a multi-cloud migration to Azure and Oracle Cloud on today's Day Two Cloud podcast. Guest Snehal Patel, Network and Cloud Architect for a large corporation, walks us through design and migration details as his company moves applications into two different public clouds.

Take a Network Break! We discuss Nvidia clearing a major hurdle to its Mellanox acquisition, GitHub changes its pricing, the startup Alkira tackles multi-cloud networking, and more tech news analysis. Our guest commentator is Stephen Foskett, founder of Tech Field Day and GestaltIT.