Service provider networks face a couple of difficult challenges: how to map service level agreements to actual network health and performance, and how to deliver service assurance to customers

Theres an old saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. On todays show, we talk about taking your first step into network automation with guest Joseph Nicholson. Hes be

Network automation is todays topic with sponsor Gluware. Gluware provides a network automation platform that targets both network engineers and automation builders. On todays Heavy Networking, we d

If you participate in the public Internet by announcing your own netblocks, you should be familiar with Internet Routing Registries (IRRs) and the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL). These

Netris is tackling the issue of automating multi-tenancy in an AI data center. Netris has your answer to this challenge, and its a solution certified to work with NVIDIA. Were going to get into the

While studying for the CCIE Service Provider certification, Andrew Ohanian assembled a workbook to help him prepare. Its packed with lab exercises, and Andrew has turned it into a free Web resource

On todays Heavy Networking we talk with Dan Wade about testing the network, inspired by Dans talk at AutoCon 2: Step 0: Test the Network. We discuss why testing is a good idea, and then explore f

On todays Heavy Networking, a roundtable panel considers whether a modern network needs to be built around underlays and overlays. This isnt just Ethan yelling at clouds. This is a legitimate que

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a very new protocol that provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. As the industry heads toward agentic AIin which an AI a

Todays Heavy Networking is all about overlay technologies, their history, development, and current state, both from engineer and vendor perspectives. We discuss why the industry turns to overlays t