Heavy Networking 604: Taking A Systems Approach To Networking With Bruce Davie

Today’s Heavy Networking continues our Future of Networking series by diving into the notion of taking a systems approach to networking with Bruce Davie, Ph.D. Dr. Davie got his start at Bell Corp. in 1988, developing hardware for gigabit networking. Since then he’s worked for a number of companies including Cisco, where he worked on the MPLS protocol, and VMware. He was part of the SDN startup Nicira, which was later acquired by VMware. Dr. Davie has written a number of IETF RFCs and is co-author of the book Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, which you can read online for free. You can also find a free book series at systemsapproach.org/books. We discuss: * Whether MPLS was a good idea * The emergence of HTTP as a dominant protocol * Taking a systems approach to networking * Systems approach vs. optimizing boxes * Thinking about cross-layer interactions * Is there still a need for QoS? * Network as a service * More Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Show Links: SystemsApproach.org Systems Approach Books Systems Approach – Substack @_drbruced – Bruce Davie on Twitter Computer Networks: A Systems Approach LEDBAT – Wikipedia