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A Mastercard survey reveals that 46% of small and medium businesses have experienced a cyberattack, and nearly 20% of those that suffered an...
Dijkstra’s algorithm is the foundation of shortest path calculations for link state routing protocols. But researchers have developed a new...
On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking, we get off the AI hype train to talk about how different artificial intelligence techniques usefully...
On today’s episode Ethan is joined by Mark Prosser, a self-described Network Operator Advocate and Network Automation Dreamer, to embark on...
On today’s sponsored episode we talk with David Gee, CEO at Curvium, a systems integrator and VAR. David holds thoughtful opinions abo...
Ethan Banks sits down with Ryan Hamel at the 96th North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG96). Ryan, a network automation developer fo...
Palo Alto Networks released a slew of product news at the 2026 RSA conference around AI security, SASE, and a new certificate lifecycle mana...
Eric Chou, author of the AI Networking Cookbook and host of Network Automation Nerds, joins Ethan and Drew to discuss adding artificial inte...
One of the early promises of public cloud was that, in theory, you could move workloads from Cloud Provider A to Cloud Provider B for any nu...
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a centralized architecture in which a controller, or a hierarchy of controllers, runs software that com...
Our topic today is the designing and building of high-performance networking hardware. If you assume the hardware details don’t matter, you’...
Traditional routing protocols like OSPF simply choose the “shortest” path. If the shortest path is full of traffic and there are alternate p...
Our topic today is building and running network workflows. If your network workflows live in a spreadsheet, a SharePoint document, or in you...
What should network engineers know about software development? What should software developers know about networking? Ethan and Drew sit dow...
AI is everywhere in networking right now, but most of it feels like hype. In this sponsored episode, we go deeper than buzzwords with Steven...
What is the real-world impact of AI on network operations? Drew and Ethan have a chat with Carlos Pignataro, Founder & Principal at Blue...
Are you an AI skeptic or an enthusiast? Ethan and Drew sit down with Igor Tarasenko, Senior Director of Product Software Architecture and En...
It’s been over a decade since the first Packet Pushers podcast on EVPN. Now, guest Jeff McAdams can legitimately suggest that we “EVPN all t...
Is the ideal IT employee just leaving college or a veteran with years of experience? Russ White joins Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to d...
Andy Lapteff once considered himself a ‘CLI lifer.’ As a network engineer he wasn’t interested in Python. He didn’t...
Unit testing is a software development practice for checking that an individual component of code works before integrating that unit with ot...
NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the continuing advancement of an open, secure, and rob...
How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across t...
On today’s episode, we take a break from one’s and zero’s for a discussion about starting a networking meetup. Our guest is Steinn “St...
The architecture and tech stack of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution will influence how the service performs, the robustness of i...
Could an LLM or some kind of an AI-driven language model, such as a natural language interface, someday replace our beloved CLI? That is, in...
Today’s show is one of those “We’re living in the future” episodes, where we talk about using AI to perform root cause analysis of a p...
If you’ve got an Autonomous System Number (ASN) and an IPv6 block, you too can multi-home IPv6 to your home lab! Sounds easy, right? W...
On today’s Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. When I think of a SOC, I picture a miniature version of NASA’s mission...
When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probabl...
Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a...
Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If it’s in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox...
How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And ho...
Today’s episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the differences among TCAM, SRAM, DRAM, and HBM, and all...
LLMs and AI-powered chatbots are becoming a regular feature of network operations tools and vendor product portfolios. Now the next iteratio...
Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should build a solution using open source tools and a lot of...
On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some amount of responsibility for network operations to...
Adyen is a global payments processor whose primary business is providing payment services for merchants, retailers, and venues, as well as o...
We have a network automation discussion for you today from sponsor Megaport. At the AutoCon3 conference earlier this year, Luke Gollan prese...
SNMP is still widely used in today’s networks. But modern telemetry and network observability are bringing changes to network monitori...
Service provider networks face a couple of difficult challenges: how to map service level agreements to actual network health and performanc...
There’s an old saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. On today’s show, we talk about taking your first...
Network automation is today’s topic with sponsor Gluware. Gluware provides a network automation platform that targets both network eng...
If you participate in the public Internet by announcing your own netblocks, you should be familiar with Internet Routing Registries (IRRs) a...
Netris is tackling the issue of automating multi-tenancy in an AI data center. Netris has your answer to this challenge, and it’s a solution...
While studying for the CCIE Service Provider certification, Andrew Ohanian assembled a workbook to help him prepare. It’s packed with...
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk with Dan Wade about testing the network, inspired by Dan’s talk at AutoCon 2: “Step 0:...
On today’s Heavy Networking, a roundtable panel considers whether a modern network needs to be built around underlays and overlays. This isn...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a very new protocol that provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. A...
Today’s Heavy Networking is all about overlay technologies, their history, development, and current state, both from engineer and vend...