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Our most popular pods in one fat feed! Too much technology would never be enough. Includes Heavy Networking, Network Break, Day Two DevOps, Packet Protector, and Network Automation Nerds. Plus new shows when they launch so you know about fresh awesomeness.
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- HN851: Inside the Certified Kubernetes Network Engineer (CKNE) Program · 56 minToday, Drew and Ethan cover the brand new Certified Kubernetes Network Engineer program with Nico Vibert. Nico helped create this certification, and is writing a study guide for…
- N4N070: Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA) Certification · 51 minMastering core network protocols through the Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA) certification provides practical troubleshooting skills that can elevate IT and security careers…
- IPB212: WinCLAT Deep Dive · 48 minRichard Hicks joins Ed and Tom to discuss the general availability of WinCLAT and its role in supporting IPv4 applications on IPv6-only networks. They break down how WinCLAT…
- TCG089: The Guardrail Paradox · 43 minWilliam is joined by Nathan Howard to discuss the Guardrail Paradox and the challenges of deploying frontier AI agents on live enterprise networks. Together they discuss building…
- NAN137: Beyond Guardrails: Building Trustworthy and Safe AI Agents for NetOps · 56 minToday we dive deep into the architecture of AI agents for network operations, specifically focusing on how to make them trustworthy, safe, and effective in production. Joining us…
- HS149: Satcos Vs. Telcos: Who Wins? · 46 minTelcos have been offering satellite services as “add-ons” to their terrestrial mobile services, under the paradigm that telcos control the customers and satellites merely provide…
- PP134: News Roundup – Android OEM Slips Malware Past Google, Hardware Wallets Hacked, and More · 1 h 16 minIt’s a packed security news roundup. We start with a multi-billion dollar crypto heist, plus a hardware supply chain attack against crypto wallets, and then discuss the PHP fire…
- NB599: CISA’s Chilling Warning for Industrial Fridges; Arista Revenue Hits New Record · 18 minTake a Network Break! This week’s episode is a 50-yard dash through the week’s tech news. The Red Alert covers a critical XSS vulnerability in Apache Juneau. In the news, Google…
- HN850: AWS Takes a Unique Approach to AI Fabrics (Sponsored) · 53 minAmazon AWS is not new to the high-bandwidth, elephant flow-oriented data center traffic pattern requirements of AI. In this sponsored episode from AWS, Distinguished Engineer and…
- TNO079: Automation for the People · 1 h 8 minWe’ve seen the capability that automation tooling has enabled for hyperscaler environments and beyond, but not enough emphasis is being put on improving the quality of life for…
- N4N069: An Engineer’s Perspective on Agentic AI (Sponsored) · 60 minIf you’re working on your CCNA you’re learning a lot of CLI, configuration tasks, and so on. But if AI can handle that for you, how much CLI do you really need to know? On…
- LIU026: Girard Kavelines: Life Sucks – Dealing with Burnout · 1 h 2 minNetwork and security engineer Girard Kavelines joins Alexis and Kevin to discuss his journey in tech, the realities of balancing a demanding career with raising seven children…
- D2DO318: Navigating Open-Source Model Providers · 43 minKyler and Ned are joined by Mo Moustafa, creator of Ollybot, to explore the complexities of running open-source models through OpenRouter. Together they delve into model tuning…
- NAN136: Outcome-Oriented Automation: Building What Matters (Sponsored) · 1 h 1 minNetwork automation projects often stall or face disruption when management can’t see tangible business outcomes. In this sponsored episode, Alex Henthorn-Iwane and Kyle Scarmardo…
- HW092: Probe Request – a Wi-Fi Community Project · 25 minKeith Parsons talks with Stephen Cooper about Probe Request, a free community driven mentoring platform designed to connect Wi-Fi and networking professionals. Stephen explains…
- PP133: An Inside Look at SRX Firewall Threat Prevention Capabilities (Sponsored) · 34 minOn today’s Packet Protector we get a good look at HPE Networking’s SRX firewall, including recently updated product families for branch locations. We’ll get an overview of speeds…
- NB598: Fortinet, Cato Roll Out Security Controls for AI; Intel Buys Quantum Software Startup · 36 minTake a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for active exploits against an Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator vulnerability. In the news, Fortinet launches new cloud-based capabilities…
- N4N068: Meter’s Networking Grants Program (Sponsored) · 31 minNetworking vendor Meter has recently launched their brand new Networking Grants program, putting money on the table to help you in your learning journey. In this sponsored…
- HN849: Meter Acquires Packet Pushers · 1 h 2 minPacket Pushers has been acquired by Meter. On this special Heavy Networking episode, guest host Scott Robohn talks with Ethan Banks and Anil Varanasi, CEO of Meter, about the…
- HN848: NetClaw: Your Open Source Network Assistant · 1 h 8 minJohn Capobianco returns to Heavy Networking to discuss his latest open source project, NetClaw. NetClaw is an automation assistant for network engineers that leverages MCP and…
- IPB211: Announcing Windows 11 IPv6 CLAT with Jim Alumbaugh · 29 minEd, Nick, and Tom are joined by Jim Alumbaugh, Technical Program Manager for Windows Networking Protocols, to discuss the newly released IPv6 Windows CLAT support for Wi-Fi and…
- D2DO317: Building the Operational Reality for Sandboxed Agents in Production (Sponsored) · 49 minIn this sponsored episode, Michael Levan and Nathan Pearce of Solo.io join Kyler and Ned to explore how to run AI agents securely at enterprise scale. Together they break down…
- TCG088: Cheaper Models, Expensive Workflows: Where AI ROI Actually Shows Up · 44 minWilliam Collins and Eyvonne Sharp discuss how smaller models change AI application economics, when hybrid routing and caching pay off, and why multi-call agents can still produce…
- NAN135: Unpacking the NetOps Stack · 1 h 1 minEric Chou is joined by Mauricio Rojas, Principal DevOps Consulting Engineer at Nokia, to unpack how the stack of Kubernetes, GitOps, and open-source tooling can fundamentally…
- PP132: What the Death Star Can Teach Us About OT Security · 25 minOn today’s episode we talk about what security teams can learn about OT security from the Death Star. Guest John Burns recaps his CYBR.SEC.CON talk “The Empire Had a SOC — And…
- HS148: Expertise, Layoffs, AI, and You · 39 minSince the dot-com bubble burst around the turn of the century, the US economy has seen periods of huge layoffs in IT. AI may be driving another such event, whether in slow motion…
- NB597: Extreme Announces Autonomous AI Agent; Cisco Debuts OT Security Cert · 36 minTake a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for HPE wireless OS vulnerabilities and for serious vulnerabilities in PHP and node.js. Security alerts carry us into the news as…
- TNO078: Designing Networks for Operations · 1 h 7 minScott Robohn welcomes Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson from Systems Approach to discuss the new edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach and their blog post on…
- HN847: Building Trust In The Agentic NOC (Sponsored) · 1 h 0 minMany network engineers don’t trust AI, in part because the tech is non-deterministic and can behave in unanticipated ways. Simultaneously, the networking industry is baking AI…
- N4N067: Level Up Your Home Network for Gaming · 1 h 7 minThanks to a listener request, today’s episode talks about how to optimize your home network for gaming. Ethan and Holly discuss key factors such as latency, connection type, and…
- LIU025: Dale Wheeler: What the Forklift? · 55 minAlexis and Kevin are joined by network technician and content creator Dale Wheeler to explore his career from forklift driver into IT. Together they discuss the pros and cons of…
- D2DO316: Local AI Foundations · 45 minNed Bellavance gets to be the guest on today’s show to discuss foundational AI knowledge, inference training, and running local models with Kyler Middleton. Together, they break…
- TCG087: AI FinOps, Governance, and Cloud Strategy with Gartner (Sponsored) · 53 minAI adoption is replaying many of cloud’s early mistakes, but agentic systems introduce a broader spending population, nondeterministic costs, and systems that can act on their…
- NAN134: Building Trust in AI-Driven Networking (Sponsored) · 48 minNetwork engineers are constantly looking at how AI is reshaping operations, moving beyond simple scripts to the future of self-driving networks. Joining Eric to dive deep into…
- HW091: WLAN Pi – MCP & OS Updates · 22 minKeith Parsons and Nick Turner discuss the latest WLAN Pi OS updates including the integration of model context protocol (MCP) for AI agent interaction. They also discuss Wi-Fi 7…
- PP131: Making Security Awareness Training Actually Effective; Plus, How IT and OT Overlaps · 35 minIn this double-header episode, JJ and Drew talk with two cybersecurity experts. First up, Jayson E Street talks about how to make security awareness training effective and…
- HS147: Architecting Infrastructure to Meet Your AI Ambitions (Sponsored) · 43 minMany a IT professional is having the AI football tossed to them, “We need to implement in house AI, go do it”. If this is you, what questions should you be asking of yourself and…
- Tech Bytes: Meter Offers Up to $2,000 for New Network Engineers to Lab and Learn (Sponsored) · 14 minToday on the Tech Bytes podcast, we learn about Meter Grants. This is a new program from networking vendor Meter that offers up to $2,000 in grants for early-career network…
- NB596: Cisco, NVIDIA Plug New Optical Form Factor; TSMC Etches Another Record Quarter · 38 minTake a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for Nutanix Prism Gateway. Our news discussion covers a new pluggable optical form factor being pushed by Cisco and Nvidia, ORCA…
- TNO077: From “Is It the Network?” to Continuous Assurance with NetBeez (Sponsored) · 27 minIn this sponsored episode Scott is joined by Stefano Gridelli, cofounder and CEO of NetBeez, to discuss continuous network experience assurance and moving beyond reactive…
- HN846: How Meter Built a Topology Design Tool to Speed Deployments from Hours to Seconds (Sponsored) · 1 h 0 minIn this sponsored episode, Alex La Fazia and Daniel Kaczmarczyk of Meter explain how they built an internal tool to automate network topology creation, drastically reducing…
- IPB210: IPv6-Mostly Is Really Dual-Stack · 35 minIPv6-mostly is a foothold to get from your dual-stack network to a much more predominantly IPv6-run network, but the reality is that IPv6-mostly has a whole set of dependencies…
- N4N066: Access Lists · 1 h 7 minEthan and Holly are back to walk us through Access Lists. Access Lists regularly appear in networking device configurations and aren’t just for security. Ethan and Holly break…
- TCG086: Why Training AI to Have a Self Makes Governance Harder · 1 h 14 minJohn Capobianco returns to the show to discuss the latest developments in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic infrastructure. John and host William Collins weigh in on the…
- NAN133: Beyond the Hype: The Realities of AI Infrastructure · 59 minEric Chou speaks with Leo Fleskes on the pressing infrastructure challenges surrounding AI resource consumption, including data centers’ massive water and power demands. Together…
- Tech Bytes: Get Ahead of AI-Driven Vulnerabilities with Frontier Virtual Patching (Sponsored) · 19 minToday on Tech Bytes we explore frontier virtual patching with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks recently announced frontier virtual patching as part of PAN-OS 12.2…
- PP130: News Roundup—FBI and Pentagon Breached, AI Amplifies Threat Actors, UK Rolls Out Passkey Option, and More · 55 minOur October news roundup is a boiling cauldron of consternation. The FBI and the Pentagon suffered breaches, serious exploits are targeting network gear, and researchers discover…
- HS146: Costly Choices and Forced Dollars – Thanks AI · 35 minSometimes IT is forced to spend money to do nothing. It might be the cost of evaluating the products and services you don’t end up deploying. Or it’s the cost of scrambling to…
- NB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity · 49 minTake a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Container Storage and SonicWall. This week’s…
- TNO076: Observability and Automation for AI Networking · 1 h 10 minChristian Adell and David Flores join host Scott Robohn to discuss the intersection of observability, automation, and networking in AI data centers. With AI data centers linking…
