Heavy Networking
Packet Pushers
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 Ethan Banks & 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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Jan 26, 2024 • 49min
HN718: Prisma SASE Gets Clever With TCP For Better App And User Experiences (Sponsored)
Remote and hybrid work means network engineers have to grapple with lossy residential networks such as home wireless that your work-from-home folks are using to access company resources. Their Wi-Fi sucks, and so their use of corporate resources sucks. Sure, you’ve got them plumbed into a SASE fabric, but that doesn’t fix their user experience... Read more »
Jan 19, 2024 • 1h 14min
HN717: Network Source(s) Of Truth – A Roundtable Discussion
On today’s episode, we discuss networking sources of truth. That’s right, sources of truth, because you’re likely to have more than one depending on your environment and your point of view. On LinkedIn, Ethan Banks quoted someone at the AutoCon0 conference who essentially said that the network itself shouldn’t be used as a source of... Read more »
Jan 12, 2024 • 48min
HN716: Design-Driven Network Automation And Assurance
Jeremy Schulman discusses the concept of Design Driven Network Assurance and the importance of starting with the design for network automation. They explore the difference between intent-based networking and network design. The chapter also discusses the process of designing and implementing network automation, including analyzing existing configurations, and using ginger templates for configuration generation. The speaker explains their proprietary code for MLB and their commitment to evangelizing techniques instead of open sourcing the code.
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Jan 5, 2024 • 46min
HN715: Prescribing The Right Dose Of Automation For A Hospital Network
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital discusses their automation journey in managing their campus network, data center, wireless network, and SD-WAN. They cover challenges in integrating new wireless devices, automating data centers, and the benefits of automation in troubleshooting network issues. The potential of AI in automating data analysis and problem-solving is also explored. Additionally, the chapter focuses on building trust in network monitoring tools and proving that the network is not the cause of application issues or performance problems.
Dec 15, 2023 • 43min
HN714: Building The Branch Of The Future With SASE Powered By AI (Sponsored)
SD-WAN is evolving to encompass more features and capabilities around security, application performance, network visibility, and more. On today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we look at how SD-WAN has transformed from a simple network connectivity solution to a comprehensive networking and security system. We discuss the limitations of legacy branch routers and... Read more »
Dec 8, 2023 • 55min
HN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go?
Welcome to Heavy Networking! On today’s show we’ve got a roundtable conversation on the state of automation in the networking industry. This show was inspired by the recent AutoCon conference, which is a new conference focused specifically on network automation. Ethan Banks and I both attended, as did two our guests, and we’re going share... Read more »
Dec 5, 2023 • 37min
HN712: FortiGuard Security Services: Invisible Operations, Tangible Results (Sponsored)
Today we’re talking security, but security you don’t always see. Fortinet, today’s sponsor, has millions of devices in the field. These are real-world devices seeing real-world traffic, all day, everyday. While those devices have a primary protection role, they can also serve as sensors that collect threat signals and feed threat intelligence services that can,... Read more »
Dec 1, 2023 • 42min
HN711: Get Cloud-Like Operation Of Your Data Center With Juniper Apstra And Terraform (Sponsored)
Public clouds abstract away much of the nitty-gritty work that goes into provisioning infrastructure, including networking. Application teams can quickly connect resources and deploy applications without having to know much about the plumbing that links everything together. When they compare the public cloud experience to standing up applications in an on-prem data center, the on-prem... Read more »
Nov 17, 2023 • 1h 12min
HN710: The Future Of Networking With Brad Casemore – Part 2
We continue our Future of Networking series with part two of our conversation with Brad Casemore. Now retired, Brad has participated in the industry as both a technologist and IDC analyst. In this episode we look at the rise of zero trust and what it means for campus networking. We discuss how geopolitics influences IT... Read more »
Nov 10, 2023 • 40min
HN709: Protecting Data, Apps With Cloud DLP And CASB (Sponsored)
Cloud environments often have poor visibility and monitoring, and sensitive corporate data can be placed in many different locations – object stores, databases, and so on. Maintaining access control is hard, and managing compliance and governance on that access and data is a real problem. And each cloud has its own proprietary security tools that... Read more »
