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HN786: From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)
June 20, 2025

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

HN785: How To Take Your First Steps Into Network Automation
June 13, 2025

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

HN784: Accelerate Your Network Automation With Gluware Labs and New Ansible Collection (Sponsored)
June 06, 2025

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

HN783: BGP Routing Policy for Enterprise Networkers: Unpacking IRR and RPSL
May 30, 2025

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

HN782: Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)
May 23, 2025

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

HN781: CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update
May 16, 2025

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

HN780: The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing
May 09, 2025

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

HN779: Do We Really Need the Modern Networking Stack?
May 02, 2025

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

HN778: Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)
April 25, 2025

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

HN777: Overlay All the Things?
April 18, 2025

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