Heavy Networking
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HN752: How Digital Twins Enable Smarter Network Ops, Troubleshooting (Sponsored)
Our topic today is digital twins. Sponsor Forward Networks offers software that creates a mathematically accurate copy of your network, be it on prem or in the cloud. We talk about what ma
HN751: Top Tips for Building A CCIE-EI Lab
The Packet Pushers and guest Mason Reimert discuss strategies hes using to prepare for the Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure lab exam. Mason shares practical tips for hands-on labbing for both e
HN750: Under the Hood Of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Browser (Sponsored)
On todays Heavy Networking, we discuss enterprise browsers with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. Most end users do the majority of their work in the browser these days. At the same time, more threats a
HN749: Expand Your Network Labs With Containerlab and Clabernetes
On todays episode, we cover open source Clabernetes, a tool that allows you to run Containerlab on Kubernetes. Containerlab provides a CLI for orchestrating and managing container-based networking l
HN748: How AI and HPC Are Changing Data Center Networks
On todays episode of Heavy Networking, Rob Sherwood joins us to discuss the impact that High Performance Computing (HPC)and artificial intelligence computing are having on data center network d
HN747: Automate The Easy Things
Our Heavy Networking guest today is Hans Driessens, and we sat down at AutoCon1 to talk through some of his network automation projects. Hans shares his journey from a service engineer to a
HN746: Going Deep on OSPF Route Filtering
On todays episode we delve into OSPF filtering. That is, how to filter routes from a devices routing table in an OSPF environment. This is a tricky business, because OSPF requires an identical dat
HN745: Using Abstractions in Automation
Todays episode of Heavy Networking comes to you from AutoCon1 in Amsterdam, recorded live on premises. In todays network automation discussion, we cover abstraction layers with guest Jaakko Rau
HN744: How BackBox Helps You Mitigate CVEs for Network Devices (Sponsored)
Today we explore a network automation use case for configuration compliance in the face of never-ending common vulnerabilities and exposures, or CVEs. If you can automate that compliance, you have a
HN743: Leveraging AI for Network Automation at Scale (Sponsored)
AI is making its way into network automation. Maybe the thought of a hallucinating ChatGPT getting its six-fingered hands on your network makes you want to run the other way. But the story of AI for