Heavy Networking

HN806: Let’s Get NUTS!

HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG

HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)

HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup

HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored)

HN801: Will a Natural Language Interface (NLI) Replace Your CLI?

HN800: Root Cause Analysis for the Entire Stack (Sponsored)

In this episode of Heavy Networking, Ethan and Banks host John Capobianco and Vreesha Sriram from Selector to discuss comprehensive root cause analysis across the full IT stack. They emphasize that Selector's approach is not a one-size-fits-all software but a customized solution tailored to each client's environment th...

HN799: Multi-Homing IPv6 to Your Home Lab

HN798: Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)

HN797: What To Do When The Business Asks for “AI”

HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)

HN795: Adventures In Latency

HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory

The podcast explores the complexities of high-performance memory allocation in network switches, focusing on TCAM, SRAM, and HBM. It examines how switches forward packets, parse headers, and apply transformations, emphasizing the trade-offs between performance and complexity in hardware design. Cisco Principal Engineer...

HN792: Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)

The podcast explores agentic AI and its potential to revolutionize network operations. Juniper Network's Chief AI Officer, Bob Friday, defines agentic AI as the next step in automation, using graphs of interconnected agents leveraging large language models (LLMs) for non-linear, non-deterministic problem-solving. He em...

HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?

HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)

HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale

HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)

HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?

The Heavy Networking podcast episode delves into modern telemetry and network observability, questioning whether SNMP is still necessary in the age of technologies like gRPC and GNMI. Ethan Banks, along with Drew Conroy-Murray, leads a discussion with Roman Dodin, John Howard, Ryan Shaw, and Josh Vandera, who share the...