Episode 15 – Thoughts on 2017

We returned to record our fifteenth episode on Sunday January 8, 2017. Interesting News and Events Avaya Chapter 11 – Avaya could be headed toward Chapter 11 IPv6 Christmas Tree – IPv6 ICMP ping would light up a specific color of LEDs on a Christmas tree. Networking Field Day 13 – November 17 – 18, 2016 – YouTube Playlist Networking Field Day 14 – January 18th – 20th Chaos Communication Congress 2016 (33C3) Roundtable Discussion – 2017 Thoughts? Looking back at all the episodes we recorded in 2016: 01 >> How to Improve Yourself 02 >> Fast Deployment vs Planing 03 >> New Location Rollout 04 >> Evolution of Broadband Internet 05 >> Network Monitoring 06 >> Discussion with Avaya’s Roger Lapuh 07 >> Next-Gen Firewalls 08 >> Network Troubleshooting 09 >> LAB Environment 10 >> IPv6 Internet Addressing 11 >> Infrastructure Lifecycle 12 >> Fiber and Twisted Pair Cabling Plant 13 >> Campus Network Design 14 >> Building Temporary Interim Networks SDN disruption continues – SDN-WAN has convincing arguments Public Cloud / Private Cloud Automation / DevOps Small Scale IT vs. Large Scale IT vs. Humongous Scale IT (differing challenges to each) Security Challenges / IoT IT Generalist – Knowledge of Application Layer, Network Layer, Storage Layer, Computer Layer – extremely valuable going forward Sideline Consumer – cutting the cord – Video over Internet, Video on Demand, Streaming TV, AT&T DirectTV Now, Smart TVs, Hulu, Roku, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV What HD Channels get I get over the air? – USA What tools are you using? syslog-ng – I’ve running syslog-ng for the past 15+ years as my centralized syslog server with great success. Here’s a blog post from Balabit outlining how to deploy syslog-ng with Elasticsearch and leveraging Kibana to visualize the data on CentOS/RHEL. Cheers!