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!