Off the Rails Episode 59: Never Ask the Network Guy to Do That

Recorded March 24, 2023

We’re joined by Paul Ziele to talk networking… and we get waaaay into it. We’re talking Mariana Trench, Kola Borehole, Hollow Earth. Record deepness… and we really only scratched the surface. We’ll have Paul back to continue this talk.

Paul shares his frustrations with AV people not knowing networking, Network people not knowing AV, and no one willing to budge more than a few wiggles to make it all work.

We also share a listener email about appropriate applications of 21:9 and we’re all (mostly) onboard! See, we’re not entirely anti-ultrawide aspect ratios…

Article discussed: Dirty Hands and IPMX https://www.avnetwork.com/news/dirty-hands-and-ipmx

Paul Ziele’s Deep Dive series https://www.avnetwork.com/news/zielie-deep-dive-series-introduction

Alternate episode titles:

• It works until it doesn’t

• Automagically

• No one could mess that up

• A lot of things breakdown when you leave a single subnet

• It’s a secret because the manufacturer doesn’t know the answer

• Dumber products or smarter integrators

• Call me when nobody buys it

• I hate security

• There is almost no device in AV that has good enough security

• Don’t put that button in; people will use it

• They’ll change 15 settings at once

• Put on your big boy pants

• The Layer 2-3 boundary

• If a limit isn’t given, then it’s unlimited

• Forbidden VLAN