Heavy Networking 473: Synthetic Transactions, SD-WAN Readiness, And Internet Outage Autopsies With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.
Today is a sponsored show with ThousandEyes and we’re going to feast on a smorgasbord of topics: first, a new synthetic transaction monitoring tool from ThousandEyes.
Second, we’ll discuss why performance monitoring is critical to your SD-WAN readiness and ongoing operations.
Third, we’ll explore postmortems on a couple of 2019’s Internet outages, including a major route leak that affected CloudFlare, and what that means when you’re relying on the Internet for critical business applications.
Our guests from ThousandEyes are Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.
Show Links:
ThousandEyes
Browser Synthetic Monitoring – ThousandEyes
Introducing Internet-Aware Synthetic Transaction Monitoring – ThousandEyes Blog
ThousandEyes Addresses Critical Enterprise Application Performance Visibility Gap With Internet-Aware Synthetics – ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes for Application Delivery – ThousandEyes (PDF)
Visibility for Your Hybrid WAN and SD-WAN Traffic – ThousandEyes
Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-Up – ThousandEyes
WhatsApp Disruption: Just One Symptom of Broader Route Leak – ThousandEyes
Internet Outage Reveals Reach of China’s Connectivity – ThousandEyes

Om Podcasten

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.