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Securely Connected EverythingFrom Troubleshooting to Optimisation: True Beauty Lies in the ThousandEyes of the BeholderDiscover the cutting-edge world of network visibility and observability as host MVR sits down with Heath Russell, ThousandEyes' technical solution architect, in a session that will revolutionize your understanding of digital infrastructure. As ThousandEyes joins forces with Cisco, we navigate the complexities of modern network monitoring and the indispensable role of active techniques in managing SaaS applications. Heath takes us from the inception of ThousandEyes at an academic level to its current status as a critical player in Cisco's toolkit, offering a lens into the deployment of agents that ensure digital experiences remain seamless.The conversation heats...
2024-03-1724 min
GCP Life060: The Speed Bump“I fixed the audio!” In this episode we discuss; AWS Follows GCP, GCVE API, Musk and OpenAI, CPU Overprovisioning, Jef Bezos AI Tool, Stack Overflow Gen AI, Weaveworks, MS Anti Competitive, Superloop Deal, NBN Speed Bump, Medibank Cybercrime, GenAI fueled Analytics, Anthropic Claud 3. Show Page: GCP Life PodcastHosts: Stephen Bancroft, Dmitry PokidovEpisode Links: AWS Follows GCP, Musk and OpenAI, K8s Overprovisioning, CPU Overprovisioning, Jeff Bezos AI Tool, Stack Overflow Gen AI, Weaveworks, MS Anti Competitive, Superloop Deal, NBN Speed Bump, SamKNows, Medibank Cybercrime, GenAI fueled Analytics, BQ AI Features, Anthropic Claud 3
2024-03-1500 min
SamKnows SpotlightVision of a low-latency future - Ben JanoffIn our second podcast, we speak to SamKnows lead integrations engineer Ben Janoff to find out how SamKnows has updated its tests to measure latency using a new metric developed by Apple called RPM.
2023-10-1310 min
SamKnows SpotlightVision of a low-latency future - Jason LivingoodThis month we talk to Comcast Vice President Jason Livingood about low latency DOCSIS and the amazing results the company has recorded in its trials of their technology.
2023-10-1322 min
Productized Podcast127. Magali Pelissier, Head of Product at SamKnowsIn this episode of the Productized podcast, our host Margarida Cosme speaks with Productized Conference 2023 speaker Magali Pelissier, Head of Product at SamKnows. Magali talks about what made her turn into product management. She also talks about her experience swimming in the channel and leaving Linkedin. We discussed some of the predictions for product management that she made on her podcast, Product Perspectives.
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2023-08-2139 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe AI answer to your broadband problemsAI expert Richard Windsor, Founder of Radio Free Mobile, joins us to discuss the rapid evolution of the technology over the past year and how it could transform customer service. Alex Salter, Founder and CEO of SamKnows, discusses how AI could enhance SamKnows’ portfolio of products, both for consumers and its ISP partners.
2023-08-0217 min
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers PodsTech Bytes: ThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored)In today’s Tech Byte, we’ve got Cisco ThousandEyes sharing new product capabilities, including ThousandEyes on Meraki MX and Webex RoomOS devices and faster insights into the root cause of problems your users are calling to complain about. We also discuss the recent acquisition of SamKnows, which gives ThousandEyes deeper visibility into ISPs.
2023-07-1718 min
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers PodsTech Bytes: ThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored)In today’s Tech Byte, we’ve got Cisco ThousandEyes sharing new product capabilities, including ThousandEyes on Meraki MX and Webex RoomOS devices and faster insights into the root cause of problems your users are calling to complain about. We also discuss the recent acquisition of SamKnows, which gives ThousandEyes deeper visibility into ISPs.
2023-07-1718 min
Tech BytesThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored)In today’s Tech Byte, we’ve got Cisco ThousandEyes sharing new product capabilities, including ThousandEyes on Meraki MX and Webex RoomOS devices and faster insights into the root cause of problems your users are calling to complain about. We also discuss the recent acquisition of SamKnows, which gives ThousandEyes deeper visibility into ISPs.
2023-07-1718 min
Tech Field Day News RundownMLPerf 3 Upsets the AI Apple Cart | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 28, 2023Training 3.0 benchmark results show performance gains of up to 1.54x compared to six months ago and 33-49x improvement over the first round, driving innovation and energy efficiency in the industry. Intel's Habana Gaudi2 ML training engine competes with Nvidia's offerings, boasting better performance than A100 and lower pricing than H100. Nvidia, on the other hand, unveils their NeMo model with half a trillion parameters and expands the MLPerf Training suite to include GPT-3 and a new Recommendation engine. Their collaboration with CoreWeave showcases the superior performance of the H100, providing a 3.6x speed increase for GPT-3 compared to...
2023-06-2834 min
SamKnows SpotlightQualcomm delivers SamKnows on-demandCEO Alex Salter tells us what being part of the QSDK means for the company and the huge benefits it will bring to SamKnows’ customers. And lead integrations engineer, Ben Janoff, will dive into the technical detail, revealing exactly how our integration with the QSDK works and how it will massively reduce the work taken to roll out SamKnows’ tests.
2023-06-2015 min
SamKnows SpotlightSamKnows, our diversity dividendRoxanne Botman, People and culture consultant at SamKnows, reveals how the company has embraced diversity, and the practical measures that have changed the company’s culture.
2023-06-0523 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe journey of a test: Jamie MasonJamie Mason, our Head of Measurement Operations gives a detailed description of how SamKnows’ performance tests are designed, executed and analysed.
2023-04-2826 min
SamKnows SpotlightWi-Fi, the moving targetSam Crawford, Co-founder and chief technology officer of SamKnows, reveals how SamKnows can help consumers and broadband providers diagnose problems with in-home Wi-Fi performance. Andy Davidson, Senior director of technology planning at Qualcomm, gives us the inside track on the performance enhancements we can expect with Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 7 technology.
2023-04-1122 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe SamKnows Data JourneyThe SamKnows founder and chief technology officer Sam Crawford tells us about his initial vision for broadband measurements back in 2008, and how the measurement methodology has evolved over the past 15 years.
2023-03-3032 min
SamKnows SpotlightStarlink, the truth is out there: Sam CrawfordSam Crawford joins Barry Collins to discuss Starlink’s performance figures in greater detail. He also gives his views on the emergence of potential rivals and the new markets that Starlink has moved into over the past few months, including aviation and mobile connectivity.
2022-12-0918 min
SamKnows SpotlightSpeed part 3, Who killed speed?SamKnows CEO Alex Salter and Comcast vice president Jason Livingood talk about how the broadband industry is changing and how it moves beyond its obsession with speed.
2022-10-1318 min
SamKnows SpotlightSpeed part 2, Something ChangedHear more from Dr Jane Parry and Sophie Gordon as they discuss how the Covid lockdowns transformed the way we worked and what it means for the broadband industry now that hybrid working is here to stay
2022-09-0724 min
SamKnows SpotlightGaming Kingdom: Jamie MasonJamie Mason Head of measurement support for SamKnows, explains how SamKnows test the performance of many of the world’s most popular games, and why the location of the game’s servers are absolutely critical to the experience that gamers will receive.
2022-06-3022 min
SamKnows SpotlightGaming Kingdom: Dr Ahmed AlsohailyDr Ahmed Alsohaily Chief technologist and adviser for the governor of the CITC tells us how Saudi Arabia delivered on the Kingdom’s goals to improve the performance of its broadband networks and how the big games companies have realized the potential of serving Saudi’s young gaming population.
2022-06-3020 min
SamKnows SpotlightDays of SpeedWhat was the internet industry like in its early days? How did speed come to dominate broadband marketing? Comcast vice president Jason Livingood and SamKnows founder Sam Crawford share their expertise.
2022-05-3021 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe Gigabit Difference - Sam CrawfordSam, our founder and chief technology officer draws on SamKnows’ exclusive data to reveal why gigabit-grade connections deliver more than
download speed benefits. Plus, he explains why Wi-Fi is becoming a bottleneck in the home and why speed is becoming less critical to consumers.
2022-04-2217 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe Gigabit Difference - Richard TangRichard is Chief Executive Officer of Zen Internet which is one of the UK’s few remaining independent broadband providers – and one of the most respected. Richard explains which apps consume the most bandwidth, why access speeds are outpacing technology, and the 5G myths.
2022-04-2224 min
SamKnows SpotlightBroadband nutrition labels - Roxanne RobinsonRoxanne Robinson, SamKnows’ director of government projects explains what lessons can the US learn from other regulators when it comes to giving consumers more information?
2022-03-0115 min
SamKnows SpotlightBroadband nutrition labels - Walter JohnsonWalter Johnson, former member of the FCC’s Office of Engineering & Technology gives us his frank views of why the labelling system failed in the past and what should be included in the labels this time around.
2022-03-0124 min
SamKnows SpotlightCloud Gaming Podcast Pt 2: Jamie MasonDive into much more detail on cloud gaming with SamKnows’ Jamie Mason
2022-02-0131 min
SamKnows SpotlightCloud Gaming Podcast Pt 1: NvidiaDive into much more detail on cloud gaming with Nvidia’s Andrew Fear
2022-02-0122 min
SamKnows SpotlightFaultFinder, the internet's early warning systemSam Crawford explains how his latest game-changing product for ISPs can find internet performance anomalies in realtime and trace the fault back to its root cause automatically.
2021-12-0823 min
SamKnows SpotlightFragile InternetWhen Facebook falls off the internet it's big news, various outages has brought down many major website this year. What are the knock on effects of major websites going down and should we be worried about it? In this month's podcast we speak the SamKnows founder and CTO Sam Crawford to find out.
2021-11-0917 min
SamKnows SpotlightMaking a MetaverseBall Metaverse’s Jerry Heinz reveals what it’s going to take to build a metaverse.
2021-09-2116 min
SamKnows SpotlightMeasuring Broadband America 2Interview with Roxanne Robinson, Director of Government & Academia at SamKnows
2021-08-0614 min
SamKnows SpotlightMeasuring Broadband America 1Interview with Walter Johnson, Chief Architect of the Broadband America Program.
2021-08-0625 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe technology edition: The super agent that Sam builtThere is SamKnows software inside tens of millions of routers – find out from the man who created it how it’s helping to keep connections running smoothly.
2021-07-0924 min
SamKnows SpotlightBufferbloatEver had a gutter clog? Ever heard of a fatberg sewer blockage? These are all (pretty unpleasant) ways that waste can cause obstructions and slow down the standard process. Interestingly enough, data passages can suffer from the same kind of congestion. In this episode, we speak with Sam Crawford to find out more about Bufferbloat and how SamKnows tests for it.
2021-06-0316 min
SamKnows SpotlightReality Gap Edition: Interview with SamIf you thought buying a fast broadband package would guarantee you get fast Netflix video streaming, you might be surprised by what we've discovered in this episode of SamKnows Spotlight Podcast. Where peak-time Netflix download speeds can struggle to stream UHD movies even on super-fast connections, and super-efficient video encoding is cleverly masking the reality gap. In this episode, we speak to Sam Crawford to learn more about why fast broadband package doesn't necessarily guarantee a fast Netflix connection.
2021-05-0420 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe Space Edition Podcast: Interview with WadeSatellite broadband has long been the last resort, the technology to turn to when the wires were not fast enough. But that may be about to change. Elon Musk’s Starlink is putting thousands of satellites into lower orbit, creating a mesh of high-speed broadband coverage that soon could cover pretty much the entire planet. To find out how good this highly-anticipated satellite broadband’s performance really is, we spoke with Wade Beaulieu, one of the lucky few accepted onto Starlink’s beta program who also had Starlink’s performance analysed by SamKnows’ whitebox, to chat about how Starlin...
2021-04-0411 min
SamKnows SpotlightThe Space Edition Podcast: Interview with SamIn the past, satellite broadband was hardly considered the top contender for internet technology - but that may be about to change. Elon Musk’s Starlink is putting thousands of satellites into Low-Earth Orbit, creating a mesh of high-speed broadband coverage that could soon cover most of the planet.To help us learn more about this new tech, we spoke with Sam Crawford, founder and CTO at SamKnows, to discuss the early performance data we’ve seen from Starlink’s service, and hear his views on how big of a leap forward this innovation really is.
2021-04-0412 min
Wireless Pubcast003 - Butcombe and PecksThe one thing we've learnt this episode is to not put out an open invite to a live recording of your Pubcast on the internet... Oh and some stuff about roaming... We think...
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2020-03-2853 min
Poupar Melhor87º papel: o da fuga que desapareceu e do retorno das medições da SamKnowsPodcast do Poupar Melhor
Esta semana estivemos a falar de como o A.Sousa conseguiu com a ajuda dos vizinhos resolver o problema de uma fuga de água nas partes comuns do condomínio.
Terminámos a revisitar o tema do controlo do serviço de acesso à Internet com o SamKnows.
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2014-02-2414 minPoupar Melhor84º hack: o dos complexos vitamínicos e dos repetidores de router WiFiPodcast do Poupar Melhor
Esta semana falamos do infográfico sobre complexos vitamínicos e das banhas da cobra que por aí se vendem como soluções para tudo.
Fechamos a falar da alteração que fiz a um router WiFi da SamKnows que já foi muito útil para controlar a qualidade do serviço do meu prestador, mas que agora serve de repetidor de sinal WiFi.
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2014-02-0316 min