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YANG: Phil Shafer

YANG: Phil Shafer

Mirjam Kühne

YANG is a data modeling language used to model configuration data, state data, Remote Procedure Calls, and notifications for network management protocols, described in RFC 7950. The origins of YANG are rooted in work Phil Shafer did in building an interface system for JUNOS. Phil joins us on this e…

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CSNET: Larry Landweber

CSNET: Larry Landweber

Mirjam Kühne

Larry Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He founded the CSNET project in 2979, one of the earliest networks eventually contributing to the creation of the Internet as it exists today. The CSNET eventually became National Sci…

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TCP/IP: Douglas Comer

TCP/IP: Douglas Comer

Mirjam Kühne

The Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is one of the foundational technologies of packet switched networks. TCP not only provides windowed flow control, it also manages the retransmission of data when errors are detected, and sockets for addressing individual applications on a host. Douglas Com…

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Spanning Tree: Radia Perlman

Spanning Tree: Radia Perlman

Mirjam Kühne

The spanning tree protocol used to connect Ethernet segments together was actually created after routing, over the span of a single week. Radia Perlman, who invented spanning tree, joins the history of networking.

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IPv6: Bob Hinden

IPv6: Bob Hinden

Mirjam Kühne

Bob Hinden is the co-inventor of IPv6.

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Software Defined Networks: Martin Casado

Software Defined Networks: Martin Casado

Mirjam Kühne

Software Defined Networks, or SDNs, were originally designed to solve a specific set of research and deployment problems. While SDN hasn't ever really "taken off" the way many predicted, the concepts and ideas have played a major role in the development of hyperscale and data center fabric control …

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Segment Routing: Jeff Tantsura

Segment Routing: Jeff Tantsura

Mirjam Kühne

Segment routing, according to many routing geeks, is what MPLS should have been in the first place. In this recording, Jeff Tantsura discusses the original use cases and design logic behind SR.

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Routing Software - P4: Nick McKeown

Routing Software - P4: Nick McKeown

Mirjam Kühne

Nick McKeown developed the open source P4 language for describing how a switching engine processes packets, allowing engineers to specify and implement customized forwarding to support policy and new protocols in the field.

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Routing Software - Early PDP11 and Commercialisation: Bill Yeager

Routing Software - Early PDP11 and Commercialisation: Bill Yeager

Mirjam Kühne

Bill Yeager developed the routing code for the PDP11 which ultimately formed the basis for Cisco IOS.

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Routing Software - Linux Routing: J.R. Rivers

Routing Software - Linux Routing: J.R. Rivers

Mirjam Kühne

The open source Linux operating system plays a large role in building routing and host devices; JR Rivers joins the history of networking to discuss the history of routing in Linux. ---- DRAFT ---

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