Networking tutorials & demo videos

Packet Pushers is your source for free networking tutorials videos, network product demo videos, pro networking tips, answers to technical FAQs, event livestream archives, and more. We curate a selection of fresh video content here on the website but you’ll find hundreds more videos for network pros over on our YouTube channel.

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Should Self-Service Be The Long-Term Goal For Network Automation? 1 Question, 10 Opinions

The Packet Pushers asked 10 network engineers whether the long-term goal of network automation should be self-service, or something else. We asked this question at the AutoCon0 conference in November 2023.

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March 6, 2024

Building Self-Service Networks With NetOrca

NetOrca is an orchestration tool that lets you build a catalog to offer and consume network services. For example, an infrastructure team could build a load balancer service that internal developer teams could easily consume. Scott Rowlandson, founder of NetOrca, walks Ethan Banks through a demonstration of the platform.

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February 1, 2024

See Streaming Telemetry At Work With Kentik NMS

Kentik has launched a new Network Management System (NMS) that’s designed to take full advantage of streaming telemetry to ensure that network engineers don’t miss critical events that happen between traditional polling intervals. In this sponsored video, Ethan Banks gets a tour of key features from Chris O’Brien, Sr. Principal Product Manager at Kentik.

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March 31, 2023

Managing Your SD-WAN Deployment Lifecycle With LiveAction’s LiveNX

Sponsor LiveAction demonstrates how its LiveNX product can be used to deploy, monitor, and repair multi-vendor SD-WANs. Our guest is Ron Groulx, Senior Systems Sales Engineer at LiveNX.

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