Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRoot Cause Analysis for the Entire Stack (Sponsored)
Episode 800
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 performance issu…
3 months ago
Multi-Homing IPv6 to Your Home Lab
Episode 799
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? Well, maybe…but …
3 months, 1 week ago
Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)
Episode 798
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 control: …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
What To Do When The Business Asks for "AI"
Episode 797
When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probably doesn’t…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)
Episode 796
Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptogra…
4 months ago
Adventures In Latency
Episode 795
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 somewhere on t…
4 months, 1 week ago
HN794: 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 g…
4 months, 2 weeks 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 tr…
4 months, 3 weeks 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 i…
5 months 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 gl…
5 months, 1 week ago