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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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Backpack: Yuval Bachar

Backpack: Yuval Bachar

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Mirjam Kühne

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The concept of disaggregation could not be taken seriously before the rise of merchant silicon. Yuval Bachar designed the Backback, one of the first "white box" routers in the world.

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Silicon Switching Engine: Tony Li

Silicon Switching Engine: Tony Li

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Mirjam Kühne

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Software switching on general purpose processors was the rule in early networks; in fact, one of the original differences between a router and a switch was whether packets were switched in hardware or software. In this recording, Tony Li discusses the first hardware switching router, the SSE, which…

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Divergence of Routing and Compute: Dinesh Dutt

Divergence of Routing and Compute: Dinesh Dutt

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Mirjam Kühne

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In many ways, routers and switches are just special purpose computing platforms. How did they come to be considered completely different kinds of devices? Dinesh Dutt joins the history of networking to explain.

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eVPN: Rahul Aggarwal

eVPN: Rahul Aggarwal

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Mirjam Kühne

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eVPN uses BGP to carry information to form layer 2 and layer 3 overlays. eVPN has expanded, over time, to solve most overlay problems.

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Email: Dave Crocker

Email: Dave Crocker

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Mirjam Kühne

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Dave Crocker developed one of the first email systems, developed the software, and helped popularize and standardize the protocols underlying modern email.

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MIME: Nathaniel Borenstein

MIME: Nathaniel Borenstein

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Mirjam Kühne

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Every time you attach something to an email, you use MIME.

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EIGRP: Donnie Savage

EIGRP: Donnie Savage

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Mirjam Kühne

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The Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP) was, at one time, a dominant routing protocol in large-scale networks.

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