Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking
Episode 795
How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is la…
Published on 21 hours ago
A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory
Episode 794
Today’s episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the differences among TCAM, SRAM, DRAM, and HBM, and all the complex tradeoffs that go into allocating memory resources t…
Published on 1 week ago
Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)
Episode 792
LLMs and AI-powered chatbots are becoming a regular feature of network operations tools and vendor product portfolios. Now the next iteration of AI in network ops and automation is likely to be agent…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?
Episode 791
Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should build a solution using open source tools and a lot of coding glue, or buy a network automation platform from a ve…
Published on 3 weeks ago
From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)
Episode 790
On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some amount of responsibility for network operations to artificial intelligence? Cisco is our sponsor, and our gue…
Published on 4 weeks ago
How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale
Episode 789
Adyen is a global payments processor whose primary business is providing payment services for merchants, retailers, and venues, as well as online payments. On today’s Heavy Networking we talk about a…
Published on 1 month ago
Behind Megaport's Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)
Episode 788
We have a network automation discussion for you today from sponsor Megaport. At the AutoCon3 conference earlier this year, Luke Gollan presented on a complex network automation project migrating Mega…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?
Episode 787
SNMP is still widely used in today’s networks. But modern telemetry and network observability are bringing changes to network monitoring. Today’s Heavy Networking is a roundtable discussion about alt…
Published on 2 months ago
From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)
Episode 786
Service provider networks face a couple of difficult challenges: how to map service level agreements to actual network health and performance, and how to deliver service assurance to customers regard…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
How To Take Your First Steps Into Network Automation
Episode 785
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 step into network automation with guest Joseph Nicholson. He’s be…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago