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Heavy Networking

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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 ai...

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Episodes (271)

HN840: How to Make a Technology Buying Decision

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Sep 4, 202651:21completed

HN839: Why Flows, Packets, and DDI are All Critical for Operational Effectivenes...

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Aug 28, 202655:34pending

HN838: Meet Mr. Packets – Building Your Own Agentic AI Team Member

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Aug 21, 20261:04:38pending

HN837: Agentic AI to Reduce MTTR

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Aug 7, 20261:05:04pending

HN836: Optimize AI Traffic on the WAN with Ciena’s Integrated IP Networking (Spo...

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Jul 31, 202654:52pending

HN835: The Pros and Cons of Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)

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Jul 24, 20261:09:33pending

HN834: HPE Self-Driving Networks: The Next Evolution of Network Automation (Spon...

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Jul 17, 202652:40pending

HN833: The State of Packet Pushers 2026

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Jun 26, 20261:12:47pending

HN832: AI Agents Are Just Another Tool: How to Integrate With Your Network Autom...

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Jun 19, 202645:46pending

HN831: The Sum, Not Just the Parts: How and Why to Think Holistically About Your...

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Jun 12, 202655:59pending

HN830: Tailscale CEO on WireGuard, Zero Trust, and Securing AI (Sponsored)

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Jun 5, 202656:39pending

HN829: EVPN/VXLAN Vs. TradCore

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May 29, 202654:15pending

HN828: How Selector Unifies Cloud and On-Prem Network Observability (Sponsored)

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May 22, 202646:24pending

HN827: When Buffers Attack: Understanding Buffers to Better Diagnose Network Wei...

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May 15, 20261:12:55pending

HN826: An Inside Look at Palo Alto Networks Prisma Browser for Business (Sponsor...

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May 8, 202634:46pending

HN825: Faster Than Dijkstra? Exploring a New Shortest-Path Algorithm with Bruce...

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May 1, 202654:43pending

HN824: That’s Not a Job for an LLM: The Right Way to Apply AI to Network Operati...

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Apr 24, 20261:01:11pending

HN823: Defining A Modern Network Service

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Apr 17, 202651:10pending

HN822: Now I Understand. You Mean an AI-Safe Zero-Trust Network Automation Appro...

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Apr 10, 20261:12:08failed

HN821: Boring Network Design Is Good

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Apr 3, 202655:52failed

HN820: Cyber Week 2026 Wrap Up with Palo Alto Networks: Agents, Prisma AIRS and...

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Mar 27, 202638:53failed

HN819: Recipes for Automation – A Look Inside Eric Chou’s AI Networking Cookbook

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Mar 20, 20261:01:49completed

HN818: Introducing LIM: A Large Infrastructure Model for Multi-Cloud Terraform M...

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Mar 13, 202658:35completed

HN817: Is There a Better Way to Do Software Defined Networking?

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Mar 6, 202657:29failed

HN816: Inside the Case: A Hardware Deep Dive with Meter (Sponsored)

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Feb 27, 202658:57pending

HN815: All About PCE

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Feb 20, 20261:14:10pending

HN814: Automating Your Network with Cisco Crosswork Workflow Manager (Sponsored...

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Feb 13, 202648:15pending

HN813: What Should Networkers Know About Software Development (and Vice Versa)?

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Feb 6, 202657:33pending

HN812: Nokia EDA: AI Ops You Can Trust (Sponsored)

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Jan 30, 202651:01pending

HN811: What AI Startups Get Wrong

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Jan 23, 202657:03pending

HN810: AI in Network Operations: Pragmatism Over Hype (Sponsored)

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Jan 16, 202659:37pending

HN809: EVPN All the Things!

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Jan 9, 20261:08:39pending

HN808: Is IT a Young Person’s Game?

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Dec 12, 202550:46pending

HN807: A ‘CLI Lifer’ No More

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Dec 8, 202552:23pending

HN806: Let’s Get NUTS!

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Nov 21, 202546:07pending

HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG

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Nov 14, 202547:46pending

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

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Nov 7, 202556:07pending

HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup

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Oct 31, 202558:47pending

HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Realit...

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Oct 24, 202558:39pending

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

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Oct 17, 202559:51pending

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

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Oct 10, 20251:11:47pending

HN799: Multi-Homing IPv6 to Your Home Lab

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Oct 3, 202547:28pending

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

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Sep 26, 202544:00pending

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

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Sep 19, 20251:07:25pending

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

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Sep 12, 202553:33pending

HN795: Adventures In Latency

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Sep 5, 202557:36pending

HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

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Aug 29, 20251:03:33pending

HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory

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Aug 22, 20251:34:35pending

HN792: Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)

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Aug 15, 202545:43pending

HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?

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Aug 8, 202555:32pending