Heavy Networking

Latest Episodes
HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)
Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography overhaul is now. But this is likely to be a
HN795: Adventures In Latency
Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If its in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox somewhere on the WAN? If its the application, can you, the net
HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking
How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is
HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory
Todays episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the differences among TCAM, SRAM, DRAM, and HBM, and all the complex tradeoffs that go into allocating memory resources t
HN792: Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)
LLMs and AI-powered chatbots are becoming a regular feature of network operations tools and vendor product portfolios. Now the next iteration of AI in network ops and automation is likely to be
HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?
Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should build a solution using open source tools and a lot of coding glue, or buy a network automation platform from a
HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)
On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some amount of responsibility for network operations to artificial intelligence?Cisco is our sponsor, and our
HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale
Adyen is a global payments processor whose primary business is providing payment services for merchants, retailers, and venues, as well as online payments. On todays Heavy Networking we talk about a
HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)
We have a network automation discussion for you today from sponsor Megaport. At the AutoCon3 conference earlier this year, Luke Gollan presented on a complex network automation project migrating
HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?
SNMP is still widely used in todays networks. But modern telemetry and network observability are bringing changes to network monitoring. Todays Heavy Networking is a roundtable discussion about alt