The TAT networks's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to TAT Networks! Silvano hopes that these podcasts will help you with your business and day to day activities.
The topics that I am planning to cover are: Network, Security, Storage, and Telemetry services in Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers; Network architectures including CLOS networks, Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, including overlay networks.; Services like firewall, load balancer, encryption symmetric and asymmetric, TLS, DTLS, IPsec; Appliances, service stitching, traffic tromboning; Service scalability and performance.
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Forwarding is an essential part of computer networks. In this podcast, I discuss forwarding with my dear friend Mario Baldi. The topics we cover include:
- Layer 2 vs. layer 3 forwarding
- ACLs processing
- Binary vs. ternary matches
- Binary hash table forwarding
- Ternary LPM (Longest Prefix Match) forwarding
- Combining forwarding with ACLs
- Flow cache-based forwarding
- Forwarding in routers and NICs
- Label Forwarding
- Segment routing
This is the second podcast in a series about "Clos Topology in Data Center Networks." My dear friend Dinesh Dutt is the brain in this podcast. The topic is Network Virtualization that is crucial since the Clos topology has significantly changed the way data center networks are designed, dramatically increasing bandwidth and reliability while also reducing cost.
One topic that is not fully understood is the difference in network design between Access-Aggregation-Core and Clos Networks. To clarify the matter, I decided to interview my dear friend Dinesh Dutt, an expert and the author of the book "Cloud Native Data Center Networking, published in 2020 by O'Reilly.
In this episode, I discuss with Diego Crupnicoff, an expert in RDMA and Storage, about the NVMe standard. In particular, he covers the basic NVMe, NVMe over fabric (NVMEoF), both using TCP/IP and RDMA, and NVME virtualization.
The P4 standard allows describing how packets are processed by the data plane of a programmable forwarding element such as a hardware switch, network interface card, router, or network appliance.
Mario Baldi describes the different aspects of this standard.