Networking podcast geared towards wireless internet service providers and network engineers of all sorts
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Hello, world. What is this MODEM podcast all about? Well, we saw a gap emerging in the technical podcast space. That gap was a deeply technical podcast, focused on the protocols, the details, the how-to-demistify-complex things, the unbiased, un-cola of networking that needed to be filled. We’re not interested in the marketing, or the fluff - we want to deconstruct the new shiny things and break them down into comsumable parts. Maybe also some witty banter.
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This episode we have Tomas Kirnak, John Osman and Tommy Croghan talking about various news evens and spending quite a lot of time on IS-IS and how it fits into the protocol spectrum that we have available to us. Check out ABQ NOG coming soon! https://abqnog.org/ Check out the other NUG groups happening near you! https://www.usnua.com/ Tomas can be …
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The Brothers WISP 186 – WISPs in Europe and the EU
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This episode we have Tom Smyth and Ole-Morten Sundheim joining us to talk about running small ISPs in Europe and the EU. This is the start of some international casts I have been wanting to do to recognize our listeners all over the world and look at issues and struggles that ISPs face throughout the world. Please reach out if you have an ISP in Af…
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The Brothers WISP 185 – Midwest Broadband Operators 2024
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This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Mike Hammett at Midwest Broadband Meeting In Indianapolis Indiana. **Sponsors** Sonar.Software Towercoverage.com Preseem.com **/Sponsors**By Tommy Croghan
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The Brothers WISP – 184 – Net Neutrality is Back Baby!
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This week we have Tommy, Dennis and Jeremy https://youtu.be/r5H_-tWkUqg SponsorsSonar.SoftwareTowercoverage.comPreseem.com/Sponsors Notes and Links120° WaveAP 4-Radio Tower Mount – Brandon's Tower Mountshttps://towermounts.myshopify.com/ FCC Orderhttps://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf BC Broadband conferencehttps://www.miragenews.…
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TheBrothersWISP 182 – Not much news
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This week we have Tommy and Denis just Chatting.By Tommy Croghan
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Let's talk about Border0 with Andree Toonk
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In this long overdue last episode of Season 3, we chat with Andree Toonk about his new project, Border0, while Chris and Jay give Nick as much hell as they can fit into an hour.
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In this episode Chris and Jay give Nick a recap of Networking Field Day 32. Always a worth while endeavor, the Netwqorking Field Day events provide a unique view into the networking industry and allow for industry experts to tease apart the nerdy details of some of networkings most innovative technologies. In Networking Field Day 32 we had presenta…
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We shift gears a bit and take a step back from deep tech and attempt to provide some experienced based advice for those working on careers. Suggested by our own own Jay Stewart, we each give a bit of our origin story and attempt to provide some hard learned lessons about it being completely OK - and in fact healthier - to not have the always-labbin…
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This week we have Tommy, Jon Fernandez, David Taht, Robert Chacon, Dan Siemon and Zach Biles **Sponsors**Sonar.SoftwareTowercoverage.comPreseem.comstore.viloliving.com**/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions00:05:10 Dave Taht’s Story00:18:00 What is Buffer Bloat?00:25:50 Dave’s Poem about Congestion00:28:30 Dave’s Mission00:30:10 What is FQ_Codel?00:44…
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What the heck is DHCP option 108 and how do I use it?
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What the heck is this DHCP option 108 that I have been hearing about? How can I use it? Why do they call it "IPv6-mostly"? These are all questions we make a wandering, winding attempt to answer in this last-minute, sketchily planned episode of MODEM. Over the last few months, Nick has been testing and even operationalizing DHCP option 108 in a dail…
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This week we have Tommy, Dennis Burgess (LinkTechs), Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller. **Sponsors**Sonar.SoftwareTowercoverage.comPreseem.comstore.viloliving.com**/Sponsors** 00:00:00 Introductions00:02:15 Sponsors and Patreon00:04:00 Bad actor companies on FB & RF Elements00:07:05 Going back to secorized pannels?00:09:25 WRT54G, That Belongs in a M…
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The current state of multihoming IPv6: all of the things your mother warned you about
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"Multihoming IPv6 is a pathway to many things some consider to be ......unnatural." ―Darth Sidious, maybe. In this episode of MODEM, we get super nerdy about the current state of multihoming IPv6 and all of the gory details and exposed limitations. Join Chris Cummings, Nick Buraglio, and John Osmond as we discuss a new IETF draft that describes the…
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This week we have Tommy, Jeremy Austin, Mike Hammett, Thomas Kirnak and Justin Miller We are talking about the WISPA America show in Louisville Kentucky.By Tommy Croghan
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This week we have Tommy, Andrew Kaiser and Seth Poche (of Cambium). **Sponsors**Sonar.SoftwareTowercoverage.comPreseem.comstore.viloliving.com**/Sponsors** Hey guys, this is a vendor spotlight from Cambium on their cnHeat project and how to use it for BDC submissions. https://cnheat.cambiumnetworks.com/ Andrew’s WISPridgetopnetworks.com…
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This week we have Tommy, Justin Wilson, Greg Lipschitz, Tom Mitchell (netElastic) and Paul Mannion (From Intel). **Sponsors**Sonar.SoftwareTowercoverage.comPreseem.comstore.viloliving.com**/Sponsors** Sorry about the long delay between casts guys, life happened and I have been a bit preoccupied. But we have a great episode for y’all today. I met To…
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More point to point addressing with Ed Horley
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Ed Horley (of IPv6 Buzz podcast fame) listened to the last show about point to point addressing and hit me up to say "Hey! You're doing it wrong!", and since there is never a bad opportunity to learn from the masters and improve, John and I said "great, let's do another show! And this time we'll bring along Jay and Chris! Listen in as we wander thr…
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The boring importance of point to point addressing
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Ahh, the perennially overlooked and ignored art of point to point addressing. You know, the IPv4 and IPv6 addressing that gets slapped onto a link between a core and distribution router, or the addressing placed on the link between your BGP speaker and the ISP. Those are kinda important, ya know? Do you know the best methods to use, what is common,…
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"Quality of Service". That nebulous term that is very capable of bringing out the frothing-at-the-mouth, highly opinionated engineers that either love it or hate it. As polarizing as it is, the real question is "what in the heck *is* it?!". For a topic that is so, so able to cause a cavernous divide between even the most sane, seasoned, and and sto…
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Join us for a meandering walkabout with Network Engineer Nick Campbell. We walk trough optical power, wave division multiplexing, and SD-WAN in what we've been calling a "Stop and Chat" session. Join us!!
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So, you say you need 100G ethernet? A conversation about Mikrotik with Kevin Myers
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So, you need a 100G router or switch, but are deeply concerned about: Cost Power draw Cooling issues Price Capabilities Money Availability CapEX Never fear, for we have news of the front, and that news is encouraging. Once again we have Kevin Myers from IPArchitechs (not anointed an official co-host, for whatever that means), who - even according t…
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Yes, it’s ULA! The IPv6 addressing sensation that’s sweeping the nation! Free at participating Internet standards bodies and ULA generating websites... Get yours today! Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoidprolonged exposure to ULA. Caution: ULA may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. ULA contains a liquid co…
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Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved address blocks with Dave Taht and Seth Schoen
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We’ve been busy! At least that’s our excuse. We recorded this episode with Dave Taht and Seth David Schoen about some new drafts they wrote for the Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved address blocks such as 240.0.0.0, 127.0.0.0 and a few others, back in February. Needless to say, it was pretty interesting. Full of very polarizing topics (for oh-so…
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Make Labbing Less Miserable With netsim-tools
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Is this a crossover episode? Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net and the SGW Podcast joins Chris Cummings and Nick Buraglio to discuss his latest project, netsim-tools! Tune in to learn about how Ivan has gone all-in on using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) prinicipals for building network labs with his latest project netsim-tools. This project lets you not…
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Underlays and Overlays - A Networking Field Day Service Provider Retrospective
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Tune in to MODEM as Kevin Myers and Vince Schuele join Nick Buraglio and Chris Cummings to discuss their thoughts around the inaugural Networking Field Day Service Provider! Links Mentioned Networking Field Day Service Provider IP ArchiTechs Stub Area 51 The Ramp Room blog by John Osmon CORD
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Once again we're behind on publishing! Recorded this episode with Kevin Myers right after the ZeroTier on RouterOS was released into the wild. We've had some drive time with it now, and we all believe one thing: it's worth your time. A lot of other greatness in here, LDPv6, IPv6 chatter, and delightful banter. Enjoy! Links …
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Learn from our experience; or hey, get off my lawn.
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Off for the summer - after a short hiatus we're back! Actually, we recorded this in July (of 2021) but then summer ramped into full swing and editing took a back burner. With this episode we shift gears, change direction, flip-flop, do a roundabout and talk about less technical topics. We all have ways that we learn, and hindsight is 20/20. In this…
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Containerlab: Declarative Network Labbing with Roman Dodin
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Building large-scale network labs can be tedious and error prone—More importantly, they can be notoriously hard to spin up automatically. Containerlab is a new tool that promises to "redefine the way you run networking labs" and I really think it hits that target. On this episode of the Modulate Demodulate podcast, Nick and Chris C. are joined by R…
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Deep Dive into Thread with Jonathan Hui
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Deep Dive into Thread with Jonathan Hui Welcome back to the Modem podcast where we visit some of the dark and musty corners of the network and shine lights in pars of the network that many people haven’t touched before. For many of us in main stream networking, we’re all about more. More bandwidth, more control. Bigger pipes. Faster switches etc… b…
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BGP is one of the most versatile routing protocols out there, but let's be honest—It kinda sucks when it comes to... Well, a lot of things. Specifically, there are a lot of issues with BGP's security (or lack thereof). BGP comes from a time when The Internet was much smaller and everyone knew everyone. Now that The Internet has exploded in growth, …
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Packet loss is good. Wait, what? Let's talk about Buffer Bloat with Dave Täht.
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Buffer Bloat. Most folks in the networking industry have at least heard this term, and may have a vague idea of what it means. It's certain that all of us have experienced it at one time or another - and likely thought it was a different problem. Over the last few years a couple of queuing disciplines have emerged that have allowed the users of the…
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Through the BGPStuff.net Looking Glass with Darren O'Connor
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Tune in to this installment of Modulate Demodulate as Darren O'Connor joins Chris C., Nick, and Dave to discuss his side project—BGPStuff.net. This tool is a modern BGP looking glass built in Golang that anyone can use to gather a wealth of information on the BGP Routing table. Some of the things you can see are AS_Path, Origin AS, ROA, ASName, RPK…
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[Non-Blocking] The DoD Brinks Truck of IPv4 Space
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On this first episode of the MODEM Non-Blocking series, Nick and Chris C. wax ineloquent about the latest networking gossip straight from the DFZ. Recently, the DoD started announcing a lot of IPv4 address space that had been previously unannounced. How much is a lot? We're talking 13 /8s of IPv4. Tune in to hear our un-scripted thoughts on what th…
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The Latest in RouterOS v7 with Kevin Myers
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On this episode of the MODEM Podcast, Nick and Chris C. bring on a special guest, Kevin Myers, to talk about the latest software updates from one of the underdogs of networking—MikroTik. MikroTik RouterOS v7 is the next version of MikroTik's routing software that promises to solve a lot of the longest-standing requests from users. Kevin and his con…
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What the heck is a tunnel? OK, then, what is a VPN?
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How hard is it to describe the difference between a tunnel and a VPN to a completely non-technical person? Come to find out, it is fairly difficult! Chris Young - one of our esteemed co-hosts - tweeted out a seemingly simple question: “Explain the difference between a tunnel and a VPN to a non/technical audience.”. Proposed answers were given, a va…
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Understanding the Internet Exchange with Mike Hammett
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As the internet grows and changes, it has become increasingly important for organizations of a certain size to dive into external routing. As many that start this path soon find, there is a wealth of information about setting up peering, configuring BGP and the associated policy, and how to connect to an "Internet Provider". But what if your intern…
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FRR protocol updates with Donald Sharp
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FRR is a well traveled and well established routing suite. It has a comprehensive and very complete stable of protocol support, which is ever expanding. In this episode, Chris Y., David, and Nick chat with Donald Sharp about some of the finer details of the newer protocol support including IPv6 FlowSpec, BGP BMP, and IS-IS-SR. We delve into the fin…
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Behavior Tree Concepts in Network Management with Tomas Kirnak
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Behavior Tree concepts are something that most network engineers probably do not spend a lot of thinking about on a day-to-day basis, but their usefulness and relative ease of understanding will be made clear by the guest of our inaugural podcast, Tomas Kirnak. Tomas is the CEO of a company called Unimus that leverages behavior tree concepts to mak…
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