Podcasts by Heavy Networking
Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.
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HN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go? from 2023-12-08T16:53:13
Today’s show is roundtable conversation on the state of automation in the networking industry. We discuss takeaways from the recent AutoCon event on network automation, and get into issues such ...
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HN712: FortiGuard Security Services: Invisible Operations, Tangible Results (Sponsored) from 2023-12-05T22:20:37
Fortinet turns its on-prem and cloud security devices into a sensor network that collects threat intelligence across the globe. That intelligence then feeds those devices and services with new u...
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HN711: Get Cloud-Like Operation Of Your Data Center With Juniper Apstra And Terraform (Sponsored) from 2023-12-01T20:46:49
Today on Heavy Networking, sponsored by Juniper, we’ll talk about how Juniper’s Apstra software can help you operate your on-prem data center more like a public cloud; meaning service provisioni...
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HN710: The Future Of Networking With Brad Casemore – Part 2 from 2023-11-17T18:34:50
Analyst Brad Casemore offers his takes on the rise of zero trust, the influence of geopolitics on IT, what's driving the need for visibility and observability on prem and in the cloud, and wheth...
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HN709: Protecting Data, Apps With Cloud DLP And CASB (Sponsored) from 2023-11-10T09:00:19
Cloud environments often have poor visibility and monitoring, and controlling access to sensitive corporate data is difficult. We speak with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about how it integrates CA...
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HN708: The Future Of Networking With Brad Casemore – Part 1 from 2023-11-03T18:36:20
The Future of Networking series continues with Brad Casemore, who survived multiple decades in the technology sector, including sixteen years as an analyst for IDC. He's been a longtime observer...
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HN707: Getting Real With Selector’s AIOps (Sponsored) from 2023-10-27T18:30:20
AI and machine learning are finally being applied to networking in meaningful ways. On today's sponsored show we talk with Selector about its AIOps platform, which ingests networking logs, flows...
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Heavy Networking 706: The GitNops Approach To Collaborative Network Automation from 2023-10-20T16:06:47
Today’s Heavy Networking is about collaborative automation via GitNops, which applies DevOps principles to networking. That means things like version control, working with sources of truth, oper...
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Heavy Networking 705: Evolving From Python To Platforms For Network Automation (Sponsored) from 2023-10-13T16:41:55
Today on Heavy Networking we talk about how to get from a handful of Python scripts to a network automation platform that enables a self-service environment and incorporates the checks and gover...
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Heavy Networking 704: Roundtable Redux: Blaming The Network; Containerlab Love; 400G Envy from 2023-10-06T20:00:57
Today's Heavy Networking is another roundtable episode. We've assembled a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Topics today include why other IT departments adn end us...
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Heavy Networking 703: Integrating ZTNA And SASE With Palo Alto Networks (Sponsored) from 2023-09-29T18:02:30
Today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, discusses Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) across the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). You could think of ZTNA, as VPN evolved and SA...
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Heavy Networking 702: Supporting Network Automation With The Pandas Python Library from 2023-09-22T17:27:26
Today's Heavy Networking covers Pandas. Not the cuddly bears that eat bamboo, but the Python library that makes it easy for you to work with a set of data. Import Pandas at the top of your Pytho...
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Heavy Networking 701: Monitoring SD-WAN At Scale With Broadcom (Sponsored) from 2023-09-15T15:24:56
Our topic today on Heavy Networking is SD-WAN monitoring at massive scale. Scale can grow quickly with SD-WAN when you account for the underlay, overlays, gateways, endpoints, and more. We talk ...
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Heavy Networking 700: Rethinking Networking and Security For The Campus And Branch With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-09-12T17:28:10
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk with Fortinet about how it converges network and security across the breadth of its portfolio. Fortinet is best known for its firewalls, but the com...
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Heavy Networking 699: Connecting Multicloud Kubernetes Clusters With Virtual Application Networks from 2023-09-08T15:38:41
Virtual Application Networks, or VANs, are today’s Heavy Networking topic. Our guest is Ted Ross, motive force behind the Skupper.io project. Skupper builds VANs in Kubernetes clusters that are ...
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Heavy Networking 698: Integrating Edge Networking And Compute With VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (Sponsored) from 2023-09-05T20:06:31
On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the edge. But where is the edge? In today's conversation with sponsor VMware, it's a remote location where data is being generated. It could be end users i...
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Heavy Networking 697: Getting Operational Visibility Into The Networks That Matter (Sponsored) from 2023-09-01T15:43:50
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking we explore new features in Cisco Thousand Eyes, an operational tool based on visibility and observability of public and private network. Thousand Eyes has c...
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Heavy Networking 696: EVPN Fundamentals (And Some VXLAN) With Tony Bourke from 2023-08-25T16:35:46
EVPN/VXLAN is our topic on today's Heavy Networking. What is it? What’s it for? Should you deploy it? Since you’ve probably already got a network, how do you add EVPN to it? Do you need special ...
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Heavy Networking 695: Automating Network And Firewall Operations With BackBox (Sponsored) from 2023-08-18T16:30:18
On today's Heavy Networking we explore network and firewall automation with sponsor BackBox. BackBox has developed a platform that aims to deliver practical automation out of the box. We get un...
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Heavy Networking 694: A Network Engineering Roundtable from 2023-08-11T16:00:47
This week on Heavy Networking we've assembled a roundtable of network engineers to talk about...stuff. Each guest has brought a topic to discuss with the table, so we've got lots of subjects and...
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Heavy Networking 693: Securing Workforce Transformation With Cloud SWG (Sponsored) from 2023-08-04T16:48:14
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we dig into cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), which help guard end users against Web-based threats and enforce corporate Web access policies. As e...
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Heavy Networking 692: Implementing Practical Network Automation – With Tony Bourke from 2023-07-28T15:41:36
If you’ve been staring down the barrel of network automation and wonder what the proper approach might be, today’s episode is for you. The Packet Pushers chat with Tony Bourke about what network...
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Heavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops&Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored) from 2023-07-21T20:08:34
On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, we look at how sponsor ZPE Systems is rethinking Out-Of-Band management for automated, NetOps-driven infrastructure. This includes tasks like device staging,...
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Heavy Networking 690: LACP Is Not Link Aggregation – With Tony Bourke from 2023-07-14T17:40:14
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk LACP and link aggregation. While bonding two or more links together to act as a single virtual link has been done for decades, LACP and link aggregation aren'...
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Heavy Networking 689: Prepping For Certification Exams With Mary Fasang from 2023-07-07T19:14:47
Certifications are a part of life in IT. On today's Heavy Networking we explore preparation strategies with guest Mary Fasang. Her certs run the gamut from CompTIA to MCSE to the CCNP, as well a...
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Heavy Networking 688: Packet-Level Fundamentals With Chris Greer from 2023-06-30T17:36:56
Packet-level fundamentals are essential for network engineers to be able to diagnose and solve network and application problems. On today's Heavy Networking, we dive into the transport layer and...
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HN687 Juniper CORA Coherent Optics Enabling IPoDWDM from 2023-06-27T13:20:24
Its about reducing the cost and complexity of DWDM coherent optical networks. Connecting the DWDM network directly to your router removes the DWDM edge equipment which simplifies operation, redu...
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Heavy Networking 686: Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking CN2 (Sponsored) from 2023-06-16T14:48:23
Today we’re going deep on software-defined networking for containers and OpenStack with sponsor Juniper Networks. Juniper has revamped its approach to secure networking for telcos and telco clou...
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Heavy Networking 685: Opengear With Zero Trust Approach in the Out of Band (sponsored) from 2023-06-14T13:26:29
Remote operation of infrastructure has renewed importance in the era of remote working. Opengear offers secure, zero trust and segmented methods to reach serial & LAN ports plus GUI interfa...
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Heavy Networking 684: What To Do With Your E-Waste? from 2023-06-09T11:00:24
By some estimates, 50 to 70 million tons of e-waste is generated every year, and that number is growing. When sent to landfills to be buried or burned, e-waste can leach toxic chemicals into soi...
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Heavy Networking 683: Palo Alto Networks Integrates AIOps Into ADEM For Faster Remediation (Sponsored) from 2023-06-06T11:18:40
On today’s Heavy Networking we have a conversation about monitoring, visibility, and observability with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. More specifically we’ll dig into Palo Alto Networks’ Autonomou...
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Heavy Networking 682: Automating Upgrades And Ensuring Compliance With BackBox (Sponsored) from 2023-06-02T18:08:43
If you’ve shied away from network automation because you’re a network engineer not a coder, fear not. There are network automation approaches that can help you get needful work done and don’t re...
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Heavy Networking 681: Under The Hood Of Formula 1 Networking from 2023-05-26T19:56:27
Modern F1 racing is bathed in data. Real-time vehicle telemetry. In-car video feeds. More video from camera crews and drones. Live streaming. All of this and more needs a network. On today's Hea...
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Heavy Networking 680: Speed Up Mean Time To WAN Innocence With Broadcom NetOps (Sponsored) from 2023-05-19T16:02:39
It's common for SD-WAN vendors to offer monitoring as part of the solution, but leaves the question … how do I monitor the rest of the network? Today’s sponsor Broadcom offers digital experience...
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Heavy Networking 679: Mountaintop Networking And Long-Haul Wireless from 2023-05-12T17:27:12
Today's Heavy Networking explores the challenges Wireless ISPs (WISPs) face when bringing services to locations without a lot of fiber in the ground. Those challenges include lining up radio ant...
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Heavy Networking 678: How Cisco Accelerates The IP/Optical Automation Journey (Sponsored) from 2023-05-05T18:52:44
On today's Heavy Networking we dive into the frameworks commonly used by service providers to tackle network slicing and traffic engineering challenges. We'll also talk their pros and cons, and ...
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Heavy Networking 677: US Networking User Association – Meetups For Network Engineers from 2023-05-02T13:00:28
You ever want a group of fellow networking nerds to hang with once in a while? The US Networking User Association might be exactly what you’re looking for. With local networking user groups popp...
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Heavy Networking 676: Implementing ZTNA And SASE With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-04-28T16:29:46
Fortinet is a security vendor most of you have heard of. But if all you think of when you hear the name “Fortinet” is firewalls, well yeah, but you should think more broadly. On today's sponsore...
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Heavy Networking 675: Enabling Self-Service Automation&NetDevOps With Itential (Sponsored) from 2023-04-21T14:46:06
Today’s Heavy Networking podcast explores the concept of NetDevOps with sponsor Itential. The idea behind NetDevOps is to advance your network to the point where it’s self-service; that is, the ...
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Heavy Networking 674: IPv6 Essentials For Network Engineers – Think Abundance, Not Scarcity from 2023-04-14T18:35:20
On today’s Heavy Networking we get into IPv6 essentials for network engineers, including how to incorporate IPv6 support in upcoming projects, how IPv6 affects NAT and subnetting, what the heck ...
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Heavy Networking 673: Multicast DNS Gone Wild On Your WLAN from 2023-04-07T18:26:46
You know all those Apple and other IoT devices connected to your wireless network? Lots of them run apps that discover services on your network via multicast DNS (mDNS). All of that mDNS traffic...
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Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome from 2023-03-31T15:44:27
Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make i...
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Heavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? from 2023-03-24T15:31:13
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatG...
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Heavy Networking 670: The Challenges And Satisfactions Of Building And Running A Mastodon Instance from 2023-03-17T20:12:04
On today’s Heavy Networking I talk with two people who have built and are running Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance which orients itself towards technical-minded folks. What started as a cool proje...
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Heavy Networking 669: Graphiant’s Network Edge Service Rethinks SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2023-03-10T20:23:34
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Graphaint is here to discuss how it's rethinking SD-WAN using a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model to help customers consume WAN connectivity instead of setti...
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Heavy Networking 668: Inside A Virtualization Consultant’s Home Lab from 2023-03-03T17:15:10
On Heavy Networking today we look at a home lab running VMware products including NSX, as well as infrastructure-as-code products Terraform, Packer, and Ansible. These use cases create a differe...
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Heavy Networking 667: Broadcom’s NetOps Delivers End-User Visibility Into SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2023-02-24T17:28:12
In today’s Heavy Networking show with sponsor Broadcom we go deep into network management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). At its heart, DEM is about understanding the user experience of...
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Heavy Networking 666: Improving Quality Of Experience With LibreQoS from 2023-02-17T21:54:17
Welcome to Heavy Networking! In this episode we discuss LibreQoS, a free and open source software project to help ISPs improve network latency and responsiveness and improve the Quality of Exper...
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Heavy Networking 665: Augtera Network AI Automates NetOps And Works To Prevent Incidents (Sponsored) from 2023-02-10T20:49:20
The Packet Pushers' Heavy Networking podcast dives into sponsor Augtera and how its AI platform, purpose-built for networking, improves network operations and enables automation. We'll examine h...
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Heavy Networking 664: Semantic Networking – Science Project Or Networking’s Future? from 2023-02-03T20:34:56
Today's Heavy Networking is a forward-looking episode about semantic networking. Semantic networking aims to make decisions on how to route packets based on more than just the destination addres...
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Heavy Networking 663: OpenAI For Networking from 2023-01-27T19:04:12
Would you give an artificial intelligence responsibility to write your router configurations? You wouldn’t. Not yet. But we’re not as far from that as you might think. On today's Heavy Networkin...
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Heavy Networking 662: Home Lab In The Cloud Or Your Basement? from 2023-01-20T17:23:12
On today's Heavy Networking, guest Tom Costello walks us through his personal lab in the cloud. We discuss pros and cons of the cloud vs. a basement, using EVE-NG vs. CML, how automation can hel...
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Heavy Networking 661: Home Labbing With EVE-NG And Juniper from 2023-01-13T19:53:08
Today on Heavy Networking, home labs. Specifically, we’re going to discuss building and using a lab with virtualized Juniper gear in EVE-NG. Our guest is Christian Scholz, who has written and pr...
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Heavy Networking 660: Writing The Manual – An Insider’s View Of Product Documentation from 2022-12-16T10:00:19
On today’s Heavy Networking we get inside the process of technical writing and product documentation from a person deep in the trenches of creating docs. We also talk about why writing as a skil...
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Heavy Networking 659: Securing Cloud Metro With Zero Trust (Sponsored) from 2022-12-09T20:19:25
On today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by Juniper Networks, we discuss how metro networks are evolving to Cloud Metro, how to apply cloud principles and automation to these locations, an...
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Heavy Networking 658: Using Batfish To Model And Test Your Network from 2022-12-02T20:41:55
Today on Heavy Networking, modeling your network with Batfish. Batfish is an open-source project that builds a model of your production network based on a snapshot of your network and device con...
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Heavy Networking 657: New VMware Client Connects Users To SASE, SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-11-25T13:00:44
Today on Heavy Networking, a discussion with sponsor VMware about SD-WAN and SASE. We’re diving into announcements from VMware Explore Barcelona 2022 covering a new SD-WAN client and more. With ...
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Heavy Networking 656: Embedding Zero Trust Into Applications from 2022-11-18T19:33:42
On today's Heavy Networking we look at the idea of embedding zero trust into applications. The way we do cyber security these days has failed in significant ways. What if we could extend the AAA...
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Heavy Networking 655: On-Prem VPC Networking With Netris (Sponsored) from 2022-11-11T11:00:29
Heavy Networking welcomes sponsor Netris to the show with a special episode for you network nerds who are really getting into automation, infrastructure as code, pipelines, and so on. Netris is ...
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Heavy Networking 654: What’s Up With DPUs? from 2022-11-04T17:27:47
Today on Heavy Networking we have a round-table discussion about Data Processing Units (DPUs). These devices let you bring networking, security, and storage capabilities closer to server workloa...
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Heavy Networking 653: Design, Deploy, And Operate With Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution (Sponsored) from 2022-10-28T11:55:47
Today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by Nokia, dives into Nokia's fabric-based approach to data center automation and operations. That approach includes its SR Linux network OS, its Fabric Servic...
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Heavy Networking 652: Why Networkers Should Want Routing Protocols Written In Rustlang from 2022-10-21T15:33:25
On today’s Heavy Networking episode, I talk with Nick Carter about Flock Networks, his routing protocol stack startup, as well as Nick’s love of the Rust programming language. As a network engin...
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Heavy Networking 651: How Juniper Networks’ SMO Enables Network Slicing (Sponsored) from 2022-10-14T18:29:49
As carriers and service providers look to embrace disaggregated infrastructure and software, and drive new business through technologies such as network slicing, it’s critical to have management...
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Heavy Networking 650: Whether And How To Adopt Whitebox Switches from 2022-10-07T19:11:06
On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, Kevin Myers joins us for a whitebox conversation. Kevin helps Internet Service Providers build their networks, and has noticed increased adoption of whitebox...
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Heavy Networking 649: Cisco NSO 6.0 Boosts Performance, Improves Usability (Sponsored) from 2022-09-30T17:48:03
On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we dive into new features of Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator, or NSO. NSO is a network orchestration platform for large enterprises and service provid...
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Heavy Networking 648: Using Zero Knowledge Middleboxes To Enforce Policy On Encrypted Traffic from 2022-09-23T18:05:53
Encrypted traffic poses a problem for enterprise policy enforcement. On today's Heavy Networking, we explore the notion of zero knowledge middleboxes, which use a variety of techniques to allow ...
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Heavy Networking 647: Fortinet’s ZTNA Differentiation Starts With The OS (Sponsored) from 2022-09-16T20:00:31
A full zero trust architecture goes up and down the stack, bringing in policy and enforcement strategies from the application layer, all the way down into the network. On today's Heavy Networkin...
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Heavy Networking 646: Networking For Spacefaring Rockets from 2022-09-09T17:26:41
Today on Heavy Networking, aerospace networking. We talk with Lexie Cooper, who works for Blue Origin as an Avionics Integration Engineer. That’s right. Lexie does networking for rockets. We tal...
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Heavy Networking 645: Secure Wireless Planning And Design from 2022-09-02T16:31:06
On today’s episode of Heavy Networking, we discuss secure wireless planning and design with Jennifer "JJ Minella. JJ is the author of the book "Wireless Security Architecture." We talk about the...
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Heavy Networking 644: Building And Running Temporary Event Networks from 2022-08-26T17:43:48
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores what it's like to set up a temporary network to support thousands of users at a live event. We discuss planning and preparation, defining requirements, ...
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Heavy Networking 643: Privacy Responsibilities Of Running A Network from 2022-08-19T15:44:12
What does privacy have to do with running a network? Is protecting the privacy of users, customers, and the organization one of the responsibilities of the networking team? If so, what kind of i...
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Heavy Networking 642: 10Mbps Single Pair Ethernet from 2022-08-12T15:00:56
Single pair Ethernet. That’s right. Ethernet over a single twisted pair, rather than the four you’re used to. Or two if you’ve got a little gray in your beard. Now, single pair Ethernet isn’t fa...
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Heavy Networking 641: Network Design For NVMe Over Fabric from 2022-08-05T17:51:36
Today on Heavy Networking, we discuss NVMe over fabric, where your Ethernet and IP network is the fabric. Many NVMe over fabric discussions focus on what’s happening inside the storage packets t...
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Heavy Networking 640: Architecture Vs. Engineering Roles from 2022-07-29T20:18:08
What’s been your experience with architecture vs. engineering roles? Are those distinct functions or combined in your organization? How do the roles interact? Does the architecture team hand dow...
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Heavy Networking 639: Juniper Cloud Metro Boosts Metro Performance, Efficiency And Sustainability (Sponsored) from 2022-07-22T16:26:53
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we dive into Juniper Cloud Metro, which includes new appliances, software, and integrations with other Juniper services to address the entire busine...
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Heavy Networking 638: Don’t Block DNS Over TCP from 2022-07-15T14:57:18
DNS is our subject on today's Heavy Networking. More specifically, DNS transport over TCP. We talk with John Kristoff, one of the forces behind RFC9210, which covers the operational requirements...
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Special: Heavy Strategy Ep27 Broadcom And VMware – What’s Gonna Happen? from 2022-07-08T16:00:41
Heavy Strategy is a new podcast from Packet Pushers. We look at the strategy and business of IT Infrastrucrure in two-sided debate format. We believe that the questions are more important than t...
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Heavy Networking 637: The Ongoing Evolution Of Arelion’s Global Network (Sponsored) from 2022-07-01T13:00:07
On today's Heavy Networking podcast we talk with sponsor Arelion about how it continues to build and maintain global IP networks, and why you should be considering them for your backhaul needs.<...
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Heavy Networking 636: Mindfulness And IT Leadership from 2022-06-24T16:13:23
Today on Heavy Networking we’re talking about mindfulness in the workplace. Mindfulness, which is about being aware of your senses and feelings in the moment, could be a useful tool to help you ...
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Heavy Networking 635: Unified Network Fabrics With Juniper Apstra (Sponsored) from 2022-06-14T15:51:49
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we talk to Juniper Apstra about how how Apstra delivers on unified data center operations, why fabrics are everywhere, how Apstra differs from other automat...
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Heavy Networking 634: Why (Not) MikroTik? from 2022-06-10T16:20:11
Today's Heavy Networking gets into networking hardware from MikroTik, a vendor you may not have heard of. Our guest is Kevin Myers, a senior network architect and consultant who uses MikroTik wi...
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Heavy Networking 633: Building DPU Apps With NVIDIA DOCA (Sponsored) from 2022-06-03T18:44:56
In today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by NVIDIA, we explore DOCA on Bluefield DPUs. DOCA is a runtime operating system on the DPU including tools for provisioning, deploying, and orches...
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Heavy Networking 632: How Juniper’s RAN Intelligent Controller Enables 5G Automation (Sponsored) from 2022-05-27T20:37:46
Today's Heavy Networking dives into the automation and orchestration of 5G networks with sponsor Juniper Networks. We discuss Juniper's RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), Service Management and O...
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Heavy Networking 631: Saying No from 2022-05-20T15:56:11
On today's Heavy Networking we talk about why it's important to say "No" when someone tries to put more work on you than you can handle. Guest Tom Hollingsworth wrote a controversial blog post e...
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Heavy Networking 630: Palo Alto Networks Introduces Okyo Garde And SD-WAN Bandwidth On Demand (Sponsored) from 2022-05-13T20:21:22
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores two new offerings from sponsor Palo Alto Networks. First is Okyo Garde, a home wireless mesh appliance to connect and secure remote workers while reduci...
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Heavy Networking 629: The State Of Data Center Fabrics In 2022 from 2022-05-06T18:07:25
Today's Heavy Networking dives into data center fabrics with guest Russ White. We discuss just what makes a data center fabric, why the industry relies too much on BGP, fabric alternatives and o...
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Heavy Networking 628: Pluribus Extends Its SDN Fabric To SmartNICs/DPUs from 2022-04-29T16:51:30
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Pluribus Networks. Pluribus can extend networking and security services directly to smartNICs/DPUs via its Unified Cloud Fabric to improv...
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Heavy Networking 627: Network Automation As A Business Culture from 2022-04-22T23:24:52
The business benefits of network automation are sometimes lost in discussion about technology and tools. Guest Tim Fiola joins this episode of Heavy Networking to discuss how to engage the busin...
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Heavy Networking 626: Choosing The Right Silicon For The Job (Sponsored) from 2022-04-15T16:19:36
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Juniper, dives into the custom vs. merchant silicon debate. Juniper makes the case for its Trio 6 ASIC in MX routers. We get into the specifics of Trio 6 c...
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Heavy Networking 625: Home IoT Networking At Scale from 2022-04-09T01:50:19
Today's Heavy Networking dives into home IoT at scale. We’re going to get into the weeds with two network engineers who’ve gone way beyond lighting and a few smart plugs in their home automation...
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Heavy Networking 624: Solving Network Problems With Opmantek’s NMIS (Sponsored) from 2022-04-01T22:36:29
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we speak with Opmantek, a FirstWave company. Opmantek's NMIS is a suite of network monitoring applications for managing fault, performance, configuration, c...
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Heavy Networking 623: Growing From Junior To Senior Engineer from 2022-03-25T15:45:45
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable conversation about career growth. Maybe your title is junior engineer, but you want to be a senior engineer. Be careful what you wish for! Maybe your tit...
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Heavy Networking 622: Intel’s Smart Edge Brings The Cloud To The Edge (Sponsored) from 2022-03-18T22:18:51
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking show with Intel, we dive into recent Intel silicon announcements that are impacting how networking services will be delivered in the years to come. The edge...
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Heavy Networking 621: Get Scalable Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored) from 2022-03-11T15:55:49
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Itential joins us to discuss how you can deliver a scalable and sustainable network automation system for your enterprise. Our guest is Peter Sprygada, VP of...
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Heavy Networking 620: High Frequency Trading And Big Data Network Design from 2022-03-04T19:45:08
Network design for high frequency trading and big data networks is the topic of today’s Heavy Networking. If you’re interested in what it’s like to carefully manage data center latency and maint...
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Heavy Networking 619: Pluribus Empowers NetOps With Kubernetes Network Visibility (Sponsored) from 2022-02-25T20:21:06
Today's sponsored Heavy Networking dives into the latest features from Pluribus Networks, including Pluribus KubeTracker, which correlates containers with applications, maps hosts to the network...
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Heavy Networking 618: Building Virtual Networks With Console Connect (Sponsored) from 2022-02-18T20:29:02
On today’s Heavy Networking episode we talk with sponsor Console Connect, which provides software-defined interconnections for enterprises and service providers. Guests Paul Gampe and Jay Turner...
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Heavy Networking 617: Go Vs. Python For Network Engineers from 2022-02-11T17:07:15
Today's Heavy Networking makes the case for why network engineers should consider using the Go language instead for their automation needs. Guest Darren Parkinson makes a strong argument for add...
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Heavy Networking 616: Do We Need An SMTP Alternative? TMTP And MNM Are Here To Find Out from 2022-02-04T18:12:05
The SMTP protocol isn't broken, but email kinda is. Spam, phishing, and other unwanted messages are easy to deliver and harder to stop. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss TMTP and mnm, a pro...
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Heavy Networking 615: Optimize User Experience With Palo Alto Networks’ ADEM (Sponsored) from 2022-01-29T01:19:30
How do you know your remote workers are having good performance--a good experience--using the applications they need to get their work done? Today we drill into Autonomous Digital Experience Man...
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Heavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends from 2022-01-21T16:49
Today's Heavy Networking gets deep in the guts of what’s going on with all the modern trends in networking: cloud-native, containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, DPUs, and so on. Guests Brent Salisbury an...
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Heavy Networking 613: Deploying An Active-Active Data Center Network For Private Cloud (Sponsored) from 2022-01-14T16:43:47
This Heavy Networking episode focuses on building a data center fabric. Pluribus Networks is our sponsor. Pluribus brought along a customer to talk about their active/active DC deployment. We’ll...
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Heavy Networking 612: Cloud-Native Kubernetes Networking For CSPs (Sponsored) from 2022-01-11T20:41:30
Heavy Networking explores big ideas around service provider and cloud provider network services in 2022, both how they collide and are complementary. Our sponsor is Juniper Networks. We also get...
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Heavy Networking 611: Data Center Networking And Observability In 2022 (Sponsored) from 2021-12-17T13:00:23
As we approach the end of 2021, it's informative to look back at how much change has gone on in the industry. One of the biggest transitions we've seen in enterprise networking has taken place i...
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Heavy Networking 610: Network Automation With Nautobot from 2021-12-11T18:16:40
On today's Heavy Networking we discuss a Nautobot, an open-source software tool that can serve as a source of truth for network automation. We explore how Nautobot works, what it's used for, how...
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Heavy Networking 609: Innovation Or Stagnation – A Year-End Networking Review from 2021-12-03T20:42:52
Today's Heavy Networking considers the current state of networking technologies and the networking market. We debate whether we've seen any significant innovations over the past year, if the ind...
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Heavy Networking 608: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About NAC (And Then Some) from 2021-11-26T14:00:46
Today's Heavy Networking goes deep on Network Access Control (NAC) for wired and wireless networks. Our guest is Arne Bier, a Senior Consulting Engineer and CCIE. We hit a bunch of topics includ...
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Heavy Networking 607: ZTNA Everywhere With VMware SASE (Sponsored) from 2021-11-19T16:24:18
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking show with VMware, we take a fresh look at VMware's SASE and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution. VMware has a breadth of products that allow for a dif...
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Heavy Networking 606: Dealing With DNS And Domain Name Abuse from 2021-11-12T18:39:22
The DNS Abuse Institute is a community effort to develop solutions to DNS-related problems including malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam. On today's show we speak with its Director, G...
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Heavy Networking 605: How cnvrg.io Metacloud Can Help Solve MLOps Challenges (Sponsored) from 2021-11-05T14:56:25
Today on Heavy Networking, we consider a newly announced platform for artificial intelligence workloads, the cnvrg.io Meta Cloud. Our sponsor is Intel, and our guest is Yochay Ettun, Co-founder ...
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Heavy Networking 604: Taking A Systems Approach To Networking With Bruce Davie from 2021-10-29T16:03:29
Today's Heavy Networking discusses the notion of looking at, and learning about, networking via a systems approach. Our guest is Dr. Bruce Davie who's had a long career in networking, has writte...
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Heavy Networking 603: Network Apps For Smarter Network Ops With Nokia (Sponsored) from 2021-10-23T03:02:18
What would you build if you could treat your network infrastructure programmatically? That’s what we’re going to consider in today’s sponsored Heavy Networking episode with Nokia. Nokia’s SR-Lin...
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Heavy Networking 602: All About SPF, DKIM, DMARC Email Security from 2021-10-15T18:06:12
Today on Heavy Networking, all about improving email security with SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance), and DKIM (Domain Keys...
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Heavy Networking 601: Monitoring The Dispersed Network With Cisco ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2021-10-08T19:13:38
Cisco ThousandEyes is a long-time Packet Pushers sponsor, and we're going to probe deeply to discuss the latest feature additions that will bring you the data you need. And, since it’s been just...
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Heavy Networking 600: Inside A Non-Profit Internet Exchange from 2021-10-02T02:49:12
Internet exchange points are networks you can use to connect to some other exchange participant. Sounds like maybe that’s a service provider thing, and it can be. But IXPs are useful for busines...
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Heavy Networking 599: DriveNets Taps Disaggregation To Build Networks Like Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-09-24T14:58:57
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk with DriveNets about why it’s time to take the disaggregated model--where you buy whitebox hardware and put a network operating system of your choi...
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Heavy Networking 598: The Future Of Networking – Quantum Communications With Joshua Slater from 2021-09-17T16:01:26
Today's Heavy Networking gets entangled in a discussion about quantum communications or quantum networking. We discuss qubits, the challenges of moving them across a network, use cases such as k...
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Heavy Networking 597: Why Enterprises Want Private 5G (Sponsored) from 2021-09-10T21:05:01
Today's Heavy Networking podcast discusses the pros and cons of building a private 5G network in the enterprise. We examine use cases, contrast 5G with Wi-Fi, unpack the hardware and software re...
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Heavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks from 2021-09-03T15:32:47
Today's Heavy Networking podcast dives into academic research on DDoS attack techniques. Our guests have published a paper about how the TCP protocol and middleboxes such as firewalls can be wea...
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Heavy Networking 595: Detect, Diagnose, And Act With Opmantek’s Automated Network Management Software (Sponsored) from 2021-08-27T18:39:52
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking show, we talk to Opmantek about NMIS, an intelligent network management platform that spans monitoring, visibility, automation, and configuration management...
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Heavy Networking 594: TLS 1.3 Down Deep With Ed Harmoush from 2021-08-20T17:21:46
Like anything in the world of IT, TLS has gone through various versions. TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are still commonly used, but TLS 1.3 is really where it’s at. Our guest is Ed Harmoush. Ed’s a profession...
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Heavy Networking 593: Network Observability With VMware vRealize Network Insight (Sponsored) from 2021-08-13T15:31:36
On today’s Heavy Networking, we drill into VMware’s vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) to learn how it provides end-to-end monitoring, how it uses flow records and other data sources, and its archi...
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Heavy Networking 592: The VAR Perspective On Networking And Customer Trends from 2021-08-06T18:07:26
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk with Remington Loose, Solutions Architect at a mid-sized VAR, to get a sense of what technology is in demand; what problems customers are trying to solve; and ...
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Heavy Networking 591: Want Network Automation? Start With Compliance And Validation (Sponsored) from 2021-07-30T15:49:41
On today's Heavy Networking podcast we discuss network compliance. The big idea is to rethink how you do compliance so that the process is automation friendly and accommodates all the network de...
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Heavy Networking 590: What It Takes To Build An ISP In 2021 from 2021-07-23T14:46:13
There's a huge amount that goes into building an ISP, from getting access to poles to run fiber, operating a cable plant, setting up customer support and billing, getting network gear in place--...
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Heavy Networking 589: Cloud Networking’s Good, Bad, And Ugly: What CSPs Don’t Tell You (Sponsored) from 2021-07-16T17:15:05
Today's Heavy Networking examines how some of the unpleasant bits of cloud networking can be improved, particularly in the areas of troubleshooting, visibility, security, and automation. Our spo...
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Heavy Networking 588: Exploring The Hidden Realms Of Subsea Cables With Telstra (Sponsored) from 2021-07-13T15:13:57
Subsea communications cables are an essential part of the global Internet. On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Telstra, we dive into the realms of undersea cables to learn how they are lai...
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Heavy Networking 587: When Your Side Project Gets Billions Of Hits – The ICanHazIP Saga from 2021-07-09T16:26:19
Today on Heavy Networking, the icanhazip story. On the surface, icanhazip.com is simple enough: You hit the URL, and get back your external, public IP address. There are no ads, no blinky lights...
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Heavy Networking 586: Virtualizing And Accelerating 5G RAN With 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon (Sponsored) from 2021-07-02T10:00:18
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Intel, dives into 5G, virtualization, and AI. Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon processors can support a variety of use cases, including running virtualized network fun...
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Heavy Networking 585: From Help Desk To Network Automation Engineer In 5 Years from 2021-06-25T17:03:40
Curt Norris started his career as an IT support specialist. Five years later he's an automation engineer. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss his career journey including milestones, ongoing ...
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Heavy Networking 584: Optimize Your Peering With Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis (Sponsored) from 2021-06-22T18:37:16
Today's Heavy Networking explores Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis from episode sponsor Cisco. This tool is designed to make you deeply knowledgeable about your BGP peering relationships and tra...
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Heavy Networking 583: How Salesforce Evolved Its Branch Network With Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-06-18T16:58:29
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we hear from Salesforce about the evolution of its branch network to SD-WAN. Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadban...
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Heavy Networking 582: The Future Of Networking With Nick McKeown from 2021-06-11T16:16:48
Nick McKeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, stops by the Heavy Networking podcast to speculate on the future of networking. Professor McKeown h...
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Heavy Networking 581: How Gluware Lab Brings DevOps To NetOps (Sponsored) from 2021-06-04T17:13:03
On today's Heavy Networking, we get practical with infrastructure-as-code, talking with sponsor Gluware about how their users have integrated network automation into their IT practices, bringing...
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Heavy Networking 580: Multivendor EVPN? Nope from 2021-05-28T15:50:11
Today's Heavy Networking is a nerdy excursion into EVPN VXLAN, including how it works, why you might want it, and why multivendor interoperability is so difficult with this standard. Guest Tony ...
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Heavy Networking 579: How Arrcus Enables Network-as-a-Service For 5G Edge/Access Networks (Sponsored) from 2021-05-21T20:11:52
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Arrcus about its support for segment routing and the impact it will have on the wider network market, particularly for 5G networks. Our guests fro...
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Heavy Networking 578: When Your Homegrown Tool Becomes Essential To The Team from 2021-05-14T18:34:56
Lots of network engineers develop tools to help them automate tasks. What happens if you build something so useful it becomes adopted in your organization? Ivan Del Rio, Senior IP Engineer at DQ...
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Heavy Networking 577: A Customer View On Cloud-Delivered Security For Streamlining Distributed Workforces (Sponsored) from 2021-05-07T21:02:42
Today's Heavy Networking gets into cloud-delivered security for user access. We're sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, and we'll talk about its Prisma Access service with a customer: Josh Dye, SVP ...
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Heavy Networking 576: Deception And Canaries In Network Security from 2021-04-30T09:00:35
Today's Heavy Networking examines the role of deception and "canaries" in network security. A canary sits on a network segment (or multiple segments) and sounds the alarm if it comes under attac...
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Heavy Networking 575: Designing Better Networking And Security With SASE (Sponsored) from 2021-04-27T18:43:58
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we examine what SASE means to you as a network engineer, its effects on how applications are protected and how you provide access to...
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Heavy Networking 574: Get HIP With Zero Trust And Tempered Networks (Sponsored) from 2021-04-23T16:58:14
Today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by Tempered Networks, dives into how Tempered builds a software-defined perimeter with native zero trust, leveraging the Host Identity Protocol (HIP),...
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Heavy Networking 573: Using Application Dictionaries For Better Security Policy Management from 2021-04-16T16:41:42
Today's Heavy Networking thinks hard about how to manage security policy in modern IT infrastructure. We get into sources of truth, application modeling and application dictionaries, approval wo...
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Heavy Networking 572: How First Bank Leverages Aruba SD-WAN For Network And Security Transformation (Sponsored) from 2021-04-09T15:19:12
Today's Heavy Networking explores how First Bank uses Aruba’s SD-WAN to advance its cloud migration, support remote workers, and provide secure segmentation for IoT devices. We also discuss the ...
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Heavy Networking 571: Network Automation Workflows With Jenkins from 2021-04-02T15:29:09
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk about how to roll your own network automation workflow. Guest Steve Puluka has developed an automation workflow system that uses GitLab and Jenkins, among othe...
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Heavy Networking 570: Dell Brings The SONiC NOS To SmartNICs And DPUs (Sponsored) from 2021-03-30T15:11:10
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we examine the use of SmartNICs and DPUs to offload networking and security processes. We also discuss the use of the SONiC network OS to run on Sma...
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Heavy Networking 569: New Metro Architectures For 5G, IoT, And Low Latency Services (Sponsored) from 2021-03-26T18:34:12
5G, IoT, and low-latency virtualized edge services present a major opportunity for providers and enterprises to build and consume new services in the metro network. On today's Heavy Networking e...
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Heavy Networking 568: Effective Technical Communication from 2021-03-19T18:47:04
Today's Heavy Networking explores how to communicate complex, nuanced technical topics to non-technical people. We examine how to balance finicky details with broader outcomes, discuss the value...
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Heavy Networking 567: Why You’ll Use A Service Provider Edge Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-03-16T21:49:40
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast, Juniper Networks is here to make the case that service providers are building cloud services at the edge that enterprises can take advantage of. Jo...
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Heavy Networking 566: Inside Intel’s Strategy To Unlock Data Center Performance (Sponsored) from 2021-03-12T17:40:42
On today's Heavy Networking we dive into Intel's portfolio---including Tofino, SmartNICs, P4, and more---to understand how it unlocks the compute power of your data center. Our guest is Mike Zei...
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Heavy Networking 565: In Defense Of EIGRP from 2021-03-05T20:11:58
Does EIGRP need defending? Can this protocol even be defended? Ethan Banks and Zig Zsiga debate the case for EIGRP and discuss major use cases, design considerations, scaling tips, and more.
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Heavy Networking 564: Seven Engineers At The Community Roundtable from 2021-02-26T17:14:30
Today's Heavy Networking episode is a grab bag of topics delivered in our community roundtable format. Five engineers join Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to talk about subjects including IPv6, Smart...
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Heavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2 from 2021-02-19T17:44:46
On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these ...
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Heavy Networking 562: Juniper’s Paragon Automation Portfolio Prioritizes Service Experience (Sponsored) from 2021-02-16T23:48:31
In today’s sponsored show with Juniper Networks, we dive into Juniper's Paragon product portfolio, which measures service quality for critical applications. The portfolio allows service provider...
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Heavy Networking 561: Modeling Your Network For Intent-Based Assurance With IP Fabric (Sponsored) from 2021-02-12T20:49:19
In today's podcast, sponsored by IP Fabric, we dive into the IP Fabric Network Assurance platform. This platform gathers network configuration and state, and then builds a network model using a ...
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Heavy Networking 560: Moving Big Data Sets From Far-Off Locations from 2021-02-05T16:38:13
Construction sites generate tons of data but often lack network connectivity. Today's Heavy Networking explores how one CTO has found ways to move huge data sets to HQ and the cloud using everyt...
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Heavy Networking 464: Provocative Statements With Tom Hollingsworth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Heavy Networking, Tom Hollingsworth joins us from GestaltIT. Don’t know Tom?
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Heavy Networking 463: Under The Hood Of 400G Ethernet With Cisco (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re going warp speed on Packet Pushers Heavy Networking: 400G Ethernet.
If you think 400G is the same thing as 100G, just faster, you’re sort of right…but also kind of wrong.
Jo...
Heavy Networking 462: You’re Not A Coder, But You Need A Coder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk about what an ops team looks like when adopting automation.
Network automation seems to be driving many of you towards Python. You’re learning to code, or l...
Heavy Networking 461: Key Concepts Of Intent-Based Networking from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Intent-based networking is the latest in a long string of dreams and schemes to get meaningful, wide-scale automation into data center networks.
In broad strokes, intent-based networking, or ...
Heavy Networking 460: Extending The Life Of Your Cabling Plant With InterOptic (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by InterOptic, we explore how to extend the life of your legacy cabling infrastructure in the data center as you grow to 100G Ethernet, and the options ...
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Heavy Networking 459: Ignition Relaunch And Ethan’s New QoS Course from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s been about a year since the Packet Pushers debuted Ignition, our membership site for professional dev...
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Heavy Networking 458: SDN Federation – One Controller To Rule Them All? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s show dives into the notion of SDN federation.
Any organization running a sufficiently-sized infrastructure is going to have a variety of software controllers for automation and ...
Heavy Networking 457: The Future Of Networking With Dave Temkin And Steve Chalmers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today is a wide-ranging Future of Networking episode with a pair of special guests: Dave Temkin, VP of N...
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Heavy Networking 456: How To Choose A Higher Ed Program For An IT Career from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s Heavy Networking explores how to select a higher-ed program for your computer science education, including what to look for and what to run away from.
How much is worth spending...
Heavy Networking 455: The Wonderful World Of Wireless – Beacons, Probes, SSIDs And More from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You know your frame from your packet. You can explain how bridging tables are populated. Ethernet is your friend from as far back as 100 meg half duplex regularly plagued your life.
Wireless?...
Heavy Networking 454: Analyzing Encrypted Traffic In The TLS 1.3 Era With ExtraHop (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Deep packet analysis at line rate is a complex claim. What do we mean when we say, “Deep”? Assuming we mean layer 7 payloads…which protocols? Some of them? All of them?
What if the pack...
Heavy Networking 453: BlueCat Networks Sinks DNS Claws Into Automation (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
DNS, DHCP, and IPAM. That’s DDI. DDI systems work together to maintain sanity for your IP naming and addressing schemes.
If your idea of DDI tracking is a spreadsheet you update when you thin...
Heavy Networking 452: Using NetBox As A Source Of Networking Truth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s Heavy Networking looks at sources of network truth. Specifically, with NetBox. What is NetBox? To quote Listen
Heavy Networking 451: Intelligent Network Automation And Intent Engineering With Gluware (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s Heavy Networking was recorded at Gluware Intent 19, a live event in New York City sponsored ...
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Heavy Networking 450: Getting To Know The Open-Source VyOS Network OS from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today’s Heavy Networking is all about VyOS, an open-source OS for routing that’s based on Debian GNU/Linux.
VyOS “provides a free routing platform that competes directly with othe...
Heavy Networking 449: Web Application Firewall Fundamentals from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On today’s Heavy Networking our topic is Web application firewalls (WAFs). Which, in the traditional sense, are neither web applications nor firewalls.
So what are these strange creatures? If...
Heavy Networking 448: An Inside Look At What’s New In Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking episode, Juniper Networks’ Listen
Heavy Networking 447: Building A Networking Career Outside The Big City from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Building a networking career is challenging under the best of circumstances.
Between keeping the packets flowing and lights on, there are certifications to pursue, problems to troubleshoot, a...
Heavy Networking 559: Nokia SR Linux – A Hyperscaler NOS Designed For Everyone (Sponsored) from 2021-01-29T18:13:09
Today's sponsored Heavy Networking dives into SR Linux, a new network OS built by Nokia. SR Linux combines a microservices architecture with modern data center networking features and is designe...
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Heavy Networking 558: No Time For Hardware – The Case For NFV from 2021-01-22T17:37:15
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) transforms routers, load balancers, firewalls and other network devices into virtual instances that can be service-chained, spun up and down as needed, and...
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Heavy Networking 557: User Experience Is A Full-Stack Responsibility (Sponsored) from 2021-01-15T17:13:07
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is the topic on today's Heavy Networking. IT folks tend to view user experience from their own particular area of responsibility--networking, security, app de...
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Heavy Networking 556: The State Of GNS3 For Network Labs from 2021-01-08T22:45:40
GNS3 is a tool for building virtual networks for labbing. Heavy Networking welcomes GNS3 co-founder and developer Jeremy Grossman and networking instructor David Bombal. We cover the state of GN...
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Heavy Networking 555: Top Network Design Trends Of 2020 from 2020-12-18T13:00:17
Today's episode is the last Heavy Networking of 2020. In the spirit of an end-of-year reflection, we're going to talk about network design trends from this year, some of which were driven, or at...
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Heavy Networking 554: Mistaking Commercial Software For A Security Blanket from 2020-12-11T20:58:20
Today's Heavy Networking talks about the tradeoffs between commercial and open source software. While open source takes time and effort to make work, is commercial software any better? Guest Dan...
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Heavy Networking 553: Why Does BGP Need Link State? from 2020-12-04T20:26:43
Hannes Gredler stops by the Heavy Networking virtual studios to educate us on what BGP-LS is, the problems it aims to solve, how it differs from segment routing, and whether the industry is load...
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Heavy Networking 552: How Fortinet Enables Multi-Vendor Security Integration (Sponsored) from 2020-11-27T15:20:54
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Fortinet, we dive into a variety of topics including a multiplicity of edges that require connectivity and security (WAN edge, LAN edge, cloud edge, rem...
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Heavy Networking 551: An Insider’s Guide To The SONiC Network OS from 2020-11-20T23:50:27
SONiC is a network OS that can run on a variety of whitebox switches. Originally developed by Microsoft, SONiC is now an open-source project with distributions that target hyperscale and enterpr...
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Heavy Networking 550: Automation Readiness Isn’t About Your Routers (Sponsored) from 2020-11-13T18:55:04
Today's Heavy Networking podcast examines cross-domain automation. Our sponsor is Cisco and our guest is Omar Sultan, Leader, Product Management for Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) p...
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Heavy Networking 549: The Future Of Networking With Simon Sharwood from 2020-11-06T20:17:45
In this discussion, Greg accosts...no, converses with...Simon Sharwood on a variety of issues highly relevant to networking's future. It turns out, Simon is not short on opinions. And thusly, Si...
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Heavy Networking 548: Automating Multi-DC EVPN With Apstra (Sponsored) from 2020-11-03T20:05:52
If you’ve been looking at automation for your network, you should listen to this episode. This is one of those discussions that can help you understand whether you should roll your own artisanal...
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Heavy Networking 547: Building And Monitoring A User-Centric Digital Experience With Catchpoint (Sponsored) from 2020-10-30T17:50:54
Today’s Heavy Networking show dives into Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) with sponsor Catchpoint. Catchpoint combines synthetic testing with end user device monitoring to provide greater vis...
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Heavy Networking 546: Making Zero Trust Remote Access Work (Sponsored) from 2020-10-27T16:09:45
Zero trust network access is ideal for today's distributed workforce, but it can be tricky to put into place. On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast, we talk with NetMotion about its remo...
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Heavy Networking 545: Achieving Automated Network State Validation from 2020-10-23T15:40:31
Automated state validation is our topic today on Heavy Networking. The hard part isn't configuring the network: it's ensuring the configuration has resulted in the desired state. Guest John Capo...
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Heavy Networking 544: Building Effective Network Monitoring Solutions With Codilime (Sponsored) from 2020-10-16T15:37:03
Monitoring and visibility are critical to network operations. On today's sponsored Heavy Networking show, we talk with sponsor Codilime about custom development and integration of network monito...
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Heavy Networking 543: What 2020 Internet Outages Teach Us About Managing Remote Work (Sponsored) from 2020-10-09T20:58:20
Stuff breaks all the time. With so many people working from home, most of the stuff that's breaking isn't yours, but that doesn’t mean it’s not your problem. Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored ...
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Heavy Networking 542: Is Whitebox Too Risky For The Enterprise? from 2020-10-02T20:34:33
Tom Hollingsworth stops by the Heavy Networking podcast to weigh in on a few topics, including the conflict between Broadcom and NVIDIA, and whether whitebox networking is becoming too risky for...
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Heavy Networking 541: An Update On Free Range Routing from 2020-09-25T18:25:36
Today's Heavy Networking jumps into the Free Range Routing (FRR) project, including features of the latest release, what's on the roadmap, and use cases and platform support. Our guest is Donald...
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Heavy Networking 540: Sinefa Blends Network Data, Synthetics To Measure End User Experience (Sponsored) from 2020-09-18T20:58:54
In today's sponsored show, we talk with Sinefa about its Digital Experience Monitoring capabilities. Sinefa assembles network traffic, DPI, end point monitoring, and synthetic transactions to ge...
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Heavy Networking 539: Preventing The 4poKalypse With Inter-Domain Multicast from 2020-09-11T17:02:32
The 4poKalypse is coming, and service providers need more tools in their toolbox to combat congestion in eyeball networks. Local content caches close to the eyeballs (pretty much how we do it to...
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Heavy Networking 538: Running An Open, Automated Data Center Fabric With Nokia (Sponsored) from 2020-09-08T14:18:49
Today's show dives into Nokia's approach for automating and operating data center fabrics. In this sponsored episode we examine key elements of Nokia's approach including the SR Linux network OS...
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Heavy Networking 537: Ansible Vs. Terraform For Network Automation from 2020-08-28T18:19:51
The networking community seems to have coalesced around Ansible for network device automation and Terraform for cloud. Why this divide? Are the two tools really that different? Today's Heavy Net...
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Heavy Networking 536: Arrcus Reimagines The Chassis Router With Its Virtualized Distributed Router (Sponsored) from 2020-08-21T20:11:44
Today's Heavy Networking dives into sponsor Arrcus's Virtualized Distributed Router, new software that transforms the monolithic chassis that can scale to thousands of ports while being operated...
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Heavy Networking 535: The ‘What’s On Your Mind?’ Roundtable from 2020-08-14T23:08:03
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable show where a group of engineers tell us what's on their minds. Topics include why EVPN/VXLAN is useful even for small data centers, how to get automation...
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Heavy Networking 534: Managing Automated Networks With vCenter And Dell SmartFabric Services (Sponsored) from 2020-08-11T15:18:31
Heavy Networking dives into building cost-effective, practical, and easily managed leaf-spine networks with sponsor Dell Technologies. We discuss Dell's SmartFabric Services offering, including ...
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Heavy Networking 533: Packet Pushers Roundtable – SD-Branch, BGP Over QUIC, Bandwidth Avoidance from 2020-08-07T16:22:28
Today's episode assembles the Packet Pushers to wrangle over a grab bag of ideas including the evolution from SD-WAN to SD-Branch, new compression standards to preserve Internet bandwidth, and t...
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Heavy Networking 532: Scrapli Is A Netmiko Alternative from 2020-07-31T17:22:03
Scrapli is a Python screen-scraping client for network devices to help enable automation. Today's Heavy Networking dives into Scrapli with two of its creators, Carl Montanari and Dmitry Figol. W...
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Heavy Networking 531: Hyperscale Multi-Cloud Networking With Arrcus (Sponsored) from 2020-07-24T20:11:08
Today's Heavy Networking podcast examines a new multi-cloud networking product from sponsor Arrcus. Arrcus streamlines and secures multi-cloud networks via its new ArcEdge and ArcOrchestrator pr...
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Heavy Networking 530: Everything You Need To Know About Wireless ISPs from 2020-07-17T17:48:33
Today's Heavy Networking dives into wireless Internet Service Providers, or WISPs. WISPs typically serve rural areas that have limited access to fiber or copper, but they also serve metro and ur...
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Heavy Networking 529: Demystifying Automation With Low-Code Workflows (Sponsored) from 2020-07-15T02:59:48
Today's Heavy Networking explores a partnership between Juniper Networks and Anuta Networks to bring low-code network automation to service providers and enterprises. In this sponsored show, we'...
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Heavy Networking 528: If Automation Is So Great, Why Aren’t More Networks Automated? (Sponsored) from 2020-07-10T15:54:58
On today's Heavy Networking episode, sponsored by Cisco, we discuss reasons why automation isn't more pervasive, particularly in networking, and look at complications such as source of truth, ge...
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Heavy Networking 527: New Ideas For A Network Certification Program from 2020-07-03T09:00
Today's Heavy Networking explores ideas for designing a new networking certification program built around a network design challenge that focuses on broad, systems-oriented knowledge. The goal i...
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Heavy Networking 526: Rethinking Your Global Enterprise WAN With Telia Carrier (Sponsored) from 2020-06-30T14:05:37
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Telia Carrier. Telia runs its own global IP backbone, and as the public Internet becomes the de facto enterprise WAN, your choice of carr...
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Heavy Networking 525: Gluware Automating Terracon’s Network (Sponsored) from 2020-06-26T16:49:31
Some of our favorite Heavy Networking discussions are with folks deep in the hot aisle making technology work. No slide decks, just engineers doing the thing. How did it go? What do you wish you...
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Heavy Networking 524: Network Modeling With Open Source pyNTM from 2020-06-19T16:40:47
Today on Heavy Networking we cover network modeling using the Python Network Traffic Modeler, or pyNTM, an open-source tool. Creator Tim Fiola explains what network modeling is and how you can u...
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Heavy Networking 523: OneOncology Boosts WAN Security, Availability With Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-06-12T18:17:22
Today's Heavy Networking podcast focuses on a real-world SD-WAN deployment with OneOncology. The organization deployed an SD-WAN solution from Silver Peak, our sponsor for today's podcast, to se...
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Heavy Networking 522: How CIOs Prioritize Security – Cisco’s CIO Perspectives 2020 Survey (Sponsored) from 2020-06-09T15:14:02
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Cisco, examines results and insights from 1,300 global CIOs in Cisco's CIO Perspectives 2020 survey. Guest Jo Peterson, VP of Cloud & Security for Cla...
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Heavy Networking 521: Diving Into Dell Technologies’ SONiC Network OS For The Enterprise (Sponsored) from 2020-06-05T16:09:09
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores Dell Technologies' SONiC network OS for enterprises. This distro offers hardware support across multiple ASIC platforms and full enterprise support. We ...
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Heavy Networking 520: Cloud Architects’ Multi-Cloud Network Adoption With Alkira (Sponsored) from 2020-06-02T14:00:05
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Alkira, dives into multi-cloud networking. Alkira's Cloud Service Exchange is an on-demand, as-a-service offering that lets customers deploy multi-cloud ne...
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Heavy Networking 519: Let’s Meet Wi-Fi 6E from 2020-05-29T19:40:15
Just as we’re getting comfortable with Wi-Fi 6, along comes 6E. Is the E for Excellent? Exciting? Execrable? In fact, Wi-Fi 6E is an extension that enables the use of newly available unlicens...
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Heavy Networking 518: Learning To Live With SNMP from 2020-05-22T17:01:18
Perhaps the most arcane technology in networking is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which, despite its name, is one of the utmost confusing pieces of technology to actually use.
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Heavy Networking 517: DriveNets Disaggregates SP And Cloud Networks To Boost Capacity, Control Costs(Sponsored) from 2020-05-15T17:05:42
Today on Heavy Networking we get nerdy about disaggregation with sponsor DriveNets. The company’s Network Cloud routing software runs on whitebox hardware and enables service providers and te...
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Heavy Networking 516: Is LISP The Overlay Of The Future? from 2020-05-08T20:57:52
Today’s podcast episode is a debate on network overlays.
The industry has seen the rise of overlay networking in the data center (EVPN, VXLAN and others), and many SD-WAN solutions ...
Heavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting from 2020-05-02T16:00:28
We interrupt our programming to commemorate ten years of podcasting. In this brief chat, Ethan and Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used, and check ou...
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Heavy Networking 514: Aruba’s Vision Extends From The Data Center To The Edge (Sponsored) from 2020-05-01T15:46:39
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Heavy Networking 513: How The Internet Is Handling The Covid-19 Load from 2020-04-24T20:27:25
As stay-at-home orders came down from governments around the world, questions arose about whether the Internet would be able to handle the load from hoards of remote workers, online schooling, and ...
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Heavy Networking 512: Production Ready Automation With Cumulus Networks (Sponsored) from 2020-04-17T04:00:44
In today’s Heavy Networking episode, we talk network automation. That’s a topic we’ve covered before on Packet Pushers, so what wondrous newness does sponsor Listen
Heavy Networking 511: A Wireless Upgrade Case Study from 2020-04-10T16:23:18
Today’s Heavy Networking is all about wireless. Guest Bryan Ward, Lead Network Engineer at Dartmouth College, takes us through a campus-wide wireless upgrade that the institution is currently...
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Heavy Networking 510: Take A Modern Approach To SD-WAN And Networking With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2020-04-03T18:26:05
Fortinet has assembled an extensive portfolio of security and access products, including firewalls, SD-WAN applianc...
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Heavy Networking 509: Zscaler – Enabling Fast, Secure Remote Work For Employees (Sponsored) from 2020-03-31T21:06:06
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Heavy Networking 508: Should Network Engineers Learn Advanced Programming Languages? from 2020-03-30T13:45:21
Today’s Heavy Networking explores what it’s like to get deeply into programming while still being attached to the world of networking.
We discuss the transition from day-to-da...
Heavy Networking 507: Build And Run A Multi-Cloud Network Architecture With Aviatrix (Sponsored) from 2020-03-20T20:25:58
Cloud networking is a challenge, to say the least. And when you’ve got deployments running in different public clouds, your challenges multiply. On today’s Heavy Networking, sponsor Listen
Heavy Networking 506: Where Is The Industry Headed With Intent-Based Networking? from 2020-03-13T18:26:21
Where is the networking industry with Intent-Based Networking (IBN)? On today’s Heavy Networking show we talk about efforts to come to some agreement on just what constitutes IBN.
W...
Heavy Networking 505: Achieving Consistent Multi-Cloud Network Policy With VeloCloud (Sponsored) from 2020-03-06T18:29:28
On today’s sponsored show, we talk with VeloCloud, a VMware company, about a variety of topics including the...
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Heavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020 from 2020-03-02T17:24:38
If you’re new to DWDM and optical networking, this Heavy Networking episode aims to peel back some of the layers of these technologies to help you understand how they work, and whether you ha...
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Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored) from 2020-02-21T16:10:17
As organizations engage with network automation, they want to be able to leverage their existing automation tools (scripts, Ansible playbooks, orchestrators, etc.) rather than an automation vendor’...
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Heavy Networking 502: Get Off My VLAN! Old Network Engineers On What New Engineers Should Know from 2020-02-14T19:51:53
I see abstractions. I see automation. I see orchestration. I see people who think that because they can use a fancy management tool, they are an infrastructure expert. For networking, this drives m...
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Heavy Networking 501: Automating Incident Response With NetBrain (Sponsored) from 2020-02-07T18:20:18
Is network automation just provisioning of equipment?
That’s what most of us think of, but there’s more to the story. Anything within the scope of networking where we can reduce manual pr...
Heavy Networking 500: The State Of SD-WAN In 2020 And Future Forecasts from 2020-01-31T17:39:36
On today’s Heavy Networking episode we’re examining the state of SD-WAN.
The technology is already being widely adopted to help companies cut WAN costs by trading MPLS for business broadb...
Heavy Networking 499: Introducing Cisco IOS XR7 (Sponsored) from 2020-01-24T18:00:50
Cisco IOS XR version 7 is the topic of Heavy Networking ...
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Heavy Networking 498: Creating A Single Source Of Truth For Network Automation from 2020-01-17T17:48:12
A major automation challenge is where the information describing your network should live. You might think that your network would be best described by the config files on your switches and routers...
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Heavy Networking 497: Good Reasons To Start Your Tech Blog from 2020-01-10T18:20:34
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to blog more, or start a blog, this episode is for you.
Technical blogging comes with benefits. For one, writing about a subject helps you u...
Heavy Networking 496: Packet Pushers 2019 Live Audience Q&A from 2019-12-20T10:00:14
On December 18, 2019, the Packet Pushers hosted a livestrea...
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Heavy Networking 495: Smart, Effective, Automated SecOps With Tufin (Sponsored) from 2019-12-17T16:41:41
Cloud and digital transformation initiatives are pushing security operations teams to the limit.
The growing complexity of cloud and on-premises environments make it harder for security o...
Heavy Networking 494: Hybrid Cloud Networking – All The Details from 2019-12-13T18:14:18
Welcome to Heavy Networking. Joining us is William Collins, lead cloud architect for a large healthcare company, who raised his hand when we asked for folks who wanted to be a guest on the show to ...
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Heavy Networking 493: Taming Service Provider Complexity In 5G Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-12-10T16:26:27
With 5G, we have a new set of challenges for service provider networks. As the network becomes increasingly dynamic and distributed to deliver an ever-evolving set of services, providers have to co...
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Heavy Networking 492: Using Streaming Telemetry To Inform And Enhance Automation (Sponsored) from 2019-12-06T18:19:51
Here are some things your SNMP-polling based network monitoring station probably doesn’t do:
1. Consume inbound streaming telemetry
2. Comprehend YANG models
3. Analyz...
Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE from 2019-12-03T17:35:02
Segment routing is a mechanism for sending packets over a specific path through the network. There are several ways to do segment routing and multiple elements that go into the technology.
Heavy Networking 490: Lessons Learned From A Large SD-WAN Deployment from 2019-11-29T11:00:39
Heavy Networking visits with Snehal Patel. A global network architect for a brand-name retailer, Shehal has been deploying SD-WAN since before it became the biggest buzzword to bet your business’s ...
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Heavy Networking 489: Is BBR Too Unfair An Algorithm For The Internet? from 2019-11-27T13:52:35
BBR is a congestion control algorithm (CCA) designed for low latency. Backed by Google, BBR’s use is growing on the Internet, including as the default CCA for YouTube.
However, an ele...
Heavy Networking 488: Using Genetic Algorithms To Avoid Internet Censorship from 2019-11-22T17:54:32
Today on Heavy Networking, we’re going to evolve using genetic algorithms. You heard me right.
Researchers at the University of Maryland in the United States have developed a project call...
Heavy Networking 487: Fortinet And The Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-11-19T21:50:35
Fortinet sponsors today’s Heavy Networking podcast. You probably know Fortinet as a firewall company, but tod...
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Heavy Networking 486: Measuring Global Performance Of The Big 5 Cloud Providers (Sponsored) from 2019-11-15T15:33:36
Understanding how the Internet carries your traffic is no longer optional.
The Internet is much of your WAN, and the Internet can have problems just like any wide area network. Beyond the...
Heavy Networking 485: Understanding Edge Exchanges from 2019-11-12T23:21:25
Internet Exchanges (IXs) perform a core function of allowing provider networks to exchange traffic and data. IXs are key to the functioning of the Internet. However, there are relatively few physic...
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Heavy Networking 484: Cloud And SD-WAN Are New Opportunities To Rethink Your Network (Sponsored) from 2019-11-08T18:35:21
Today on Heavy Networking our subject is: Stop treating your wide area network like a network.
What does that mean? Is it a Zen koan? If we meditate on the inherent contradictions in that...
Heavy Networking 483: SD-WAN Incompetence, Myths, And Fallacies from 2019-11-05T02:00:44
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are trying to sell SD-WAN services by convincing you that you don’t have the staff, training, or competence to operate an SD-WAN.
On today’s H...
Heavy Networking 482: Test Your Limits With The TRex OSS Traffic Generator from 2019-11-01T19:57:16
TRex is an open source traffic generator backed by Cisco. Joining us on Heavy Networking today is Hanoch Haim, Principal Engineer with Cisco, and the lead developer on the TRex project.
T...
Heavy Networking 481: Enhancing Cloud Security With Network Detection And Response From ExtraHop (Sponsored) from 2019-10-25T18:43:09
Today on Heavy Networking we talk security, both on premises and in the public cloud.
The network you build and run on premises and in the cloud are expressly designed to connect users an...
Heavy Networking 480: WTF Is Digital Transformation? from 2019-10-22T15:14:53
Welcome to Heavy Networking from the Packet Pushers Podcast network. Today’s show is all about Digital Transformation.
CIOs, executives, analysts, and product managers talk about di...
Heavy Networking 479: Scaling Up Your DDoS Protection With Juniper Networks And Corero (Sponsored) from 2019-10-18T19:54:32
DDoS is a significant problem. The volume of DDoS traffic is increasing by leaps and bounds, enabled in part by botnets of compromised hosts such as IoT devices.
On today’s sponsore...
Heavy Networking 478: Leveraging LTE For SD-WAN With Cradlepoint (Sponsored) from 2019-10-15T21:49:10
Today’s Heavy Networking dives into LTE on the WAN with sponsor Cradlepoint.
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Heavy Networking 477: Segment Routing Boot Camp With Juniper Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-10-11T21:08:43
Today on Heavy Networking we go deep on segment routing. Segment routing is way to encode into a packet the path it should take through the network. And why would you want to do that? Lots of reaso...
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Heavy Networking 476: Running ACI And NSX In The Same Data Center from 2019-10-08T22:12:27
Today on Heavy Networking, a network transformation. OK, that sounds like marketing, but it isn’t.
This is a discussion about a migration to Cisco ACI and VMware NSX technologies, paired ...
Heavy Networking 475: Anticipating 5G’s Impact On Enterprise Wi-Fi from 2019-10-04T18:17:14
Greg and Ethan are here today. Hi. Just us. We wanted to speculate on what the impact of 5G and private LTE might be over the next several months & years on enterprise wireless. That is, Wi-Fi....
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Heavy Networking 474: Find Breaches With Continuous Monitoring From Open Systems (Sponsored) from 2019-09-27T23:10:39
I have worked with several intrusion detection and prevention systems going back a couple of decades or so.
The problem with them? Alarm floods. Never-ending updates. False positives. Mys...
Heavy Networking 473: Synthetic Transactions, SD-WAN Readiness, And Internet Outage Autopsies With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2019-09-24T17:07:24
Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.
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Heavy Networking 472: Grappling With Wireless QoS from 2019-09-20T18:19:46
If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you.
Today, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking requ...
Heavy Networking 471: Routing-Centric Transformation With Arrcus’s ArcOS (Sponsored) from 2019-09-13T22:17:07
Today’s Heavy Networking is a sponsored show with Arrcus. Their ArcOS network operating system takes a fr...
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Heavy Networking 470: Why Does Networking Evolve So Slowly? from 2019-09-11T15:59:14
In a discussion on the Packet Pushers’ Slack channel, Greg shared some slides from 1999, where some of the same points he raised 20 years ago are still true today. Why is networking so slow t...
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Heavy Networking 469: Actionable QoS Monitoring from 2019-09-10T15:42:23
QoS is difficult to implement over the Internet, because hey, you don’t own all the gear between you and the destination.
And even if you do own all the bits, QoS is hard to monitor. How ...
Heavy Networking 468: Making The Business Case For SD-WAN from 2019-08-30T21:14:41
On Heavy Networking we spend a lot of time digging into the technologies that underpin SD-WAN: bonding multiple links, application ID, encryption and overlays, controllers, policy enforcement and m...
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Heavy Networking 467: The Journey To SDN from 2019-08-23T23:20:42
On today’s Heavy Networking we look at one organization’s journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned.
My guest is Sal Rannazzisi, principal network arch...
Heavy Networking 466: Securing The Network That’s Everywhere With Open Systems (Sponsored) from 2019-08-16T07:00:17
As your network perimeter expands into public cloud and mobile, how do you secure it? The answer has been some combination of endless firewalls, host agents, and VPNs, maybe from a variety of vendo...
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Heavy Networking 465: Looking Backward and Forward with Harry Quackenboss from 2019-08-13T17:00:37
Harry Quackenboss is long time veteran of infrastructure technology. In networking he was a VP of Sales of Crescendo for FDDI networking (to the desktop) which was acquired by Cisco. He later found...
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