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Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: Roland Dobbins

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: Roland Dobbins

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Mirjam Kühne

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DDoS attacks have not always been as common as they are today, nor have the defensive systems used to protect networks against them. In this recording, Roland Dobbins, who helped to develop and deploy many of the anti-DDoS systems in use today, discusses the history of DDoS attacks.

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Network Management - OpenConfig: Anees Shaikh and Rob Shakir

Cisco CLI: Terry Slattery and Rob Widmer

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Mirjam Kühne

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Many different methods of configuration were available in the early days of configuring routers; Bay networks, for instance, provided on-screen navigation of SNMP MIBs. The CLI was a great improvement.

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Network Management - OpenConfig: Anees Shaikh and Rob Shakir

The Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert: Terry Slattery and Bruce Pinsky

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Mirjam Kühne

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Certifications in networking really started with the CCIE.

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BIER: Tony Przygienda

BIER: Tony Przygienda

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Mirjam Kühne

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Supporting service meshes and multicast has always been a challenge on IP networks; BIER provides an answer to these problems.

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MPLS: Ross Callon

MPLS: Ross Callon

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Mirjam Kühne

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Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS, underlies much of the magic that makes large-scale transit networks run, and is a precursor to concepts like controller-based SDN.

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MPLS/TE: George Swallow

MPLS/TE: George Swallow

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Mirjam Kühne

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Traffic engineering is an interesting case study in using packet based mechanisms to solve problems traditionally solved with circuit switched network technologies. George Swallow is one of the original designers of MPLS/TE.

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Pseudowires: Luca Martini

Pseudowires: Luca Martini

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Mirjam Kühne

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In the first few decades of networking, circuit switched solutions reigned supreme. When packet switched networks were fully adopted, network engineers discovered there were some problems that were still best solved with circuit switched technologies--hence the invention of emulated point-to-point …

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LISP: Dino Farinacci

LISP: Dino Farinacci

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Mirjam Kühne

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Location and identity are often bundled into a single "thing" in IP networking. One attempt to separate these two is the Locater Identifier Separation Protocol, or LISP. Dino Farinacci is the inventor of LISP.

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ILNP: Saleem Bhatti

ILNP: Saleem Bhatti

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Mirjam Kühne

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Mobility problems in networks did not arise with the data center fabric and virtualized load. ILNP was designed to support mobility in IP networks on a campus or global scale.

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Backplanes: Kenneth Duda

Backplanes: Kenneth Duda

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Mirjam Kühne

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Many different kinds of backplanes have been used to connect line cards and other components in network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls. The original custom-designed busses gave way to plain Ethernet busses, then to crossbars and Clos fabrics. Along the way more exotic designs, such a…

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