Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAccelerate Your Network Automation With Gluware Labs and New Ansible Collection (Sponsored)
Episode 784
Network automation is today’s topic with sponsor Gluware. Gluware provides a network automation platform that targets both network engineers and automation builders. On today’s Heavy Networking, we d…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
BGP Routing Policy for Enterprise Networkers: Unpacking IRR and RPSL
Episode 783
If you participate in the public Internet by announcing your own netblocks, you should be familiar with Internet Routing Registries (IRRs) and the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL). These …
Published on 3 months ago
Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)
Episode 782
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 certified to work with NVIDIA. We’re going to get into the…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update
Episode 781
While studying for the CCIE Service Provider certification, Andrew Ohanian assembled a workbook to help him prepare. It’s packed with lab exercises, and Andrew has turned it into a free Web resource …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing
Episode 780
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk with Dan Wade about testing the network, inspired by Dan’s talk at AutoCon 2: “Step 0: Test the Network.” We discuss why testing is a good idea, and then explore f…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Do We Really Need the Modern Networking Stack?
Episode 779
On today’s Heavy Networking, a roundtable panel considers whether a modern network needs to be built around underlays and overlays. This isn’t just Ethan yelling at clouds. This is a legitimate quest…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)
Episode 778
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. As the industry heads toward agentic AI–in which an AI agent…
Published on 4 months ago
Overlay All the Things?
Episode 777
Today’s Heavy Networking is all about overlay technologies, their history, development, and current state, both from engineer and vendor perspectives. We discuss why the industry turns to overlays to…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Security Platforms: Balancing Efficacy, Ops, and Emerging Threats (Sponsored)
Episode 776
Network security has evolved from stateful perimeter firewalls with maybe some IDS/IPS to a complex stack delivered as numerous unique tools, which often don’t talk to one another and may need to be …
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot
Episode 775
On today’s Heavy Networking, we’ll discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organization’s knowledge. The potential use cases for network operations are fascinating, and tod…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago