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HN721: Goodbye Network Cowboys, Hello Total Network Operations
February 16, 2024

The days of network cowboy heroism are over or at least they need to be. Its time for network engineering to grow up and standardize how networks are built. Not only will this make life easier for

HN720: What Yale Learned about RADIUS Load Balancing
February 09, 2024

Yales efforts to load-balance RADIUS servers is a case study in system design for resiliency. First, there was a lone, redundant PSN. Next, F5s load balancers entered the picture. Then the network t

HN719: Meet SuzieQ, The Network Observability Application
February 02, 2024

Guest Dinesh Dutt introduces his newest creation, SuzieQ. Its a network observability platform application that has both a free, open source version and an enterprise version. Lightweight, fast, a

HN718: Prisma SASE Gets Clever With TCP For Better App And User Experiences (Sponsored)
January 26, 2024

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

HN717: Network Source(s) Of Truth – A Roundtable Discussion
January 19, 2024

On todays episode, we discuss networking sources of truth. Thats right, sources of truth, because youre likely to have more than one depending on your environment and your point of view. On Linke

HN716: Design-Driven Network Automation And Assurance
January 12, 2024

At AutoCon0 in November 2023, guest Jeremy Schulman delivered a talk from the main stage about delivering network assurance. If the term network assurance doesnt mean anything to you, think about

HN715: Prescribing The Right Dose Of Automation For A Hospital Network
January 05, 2024

At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, patients are the priority. That focus on patient care extends to the hospitals campus network, data center, wireless network, and SD-WAN. These networks are i

HN714: Building The Branch Of The Future With SASE Powered By AI (Sponsored)
December 15, 2023

SD-WAN is evolving to encompass more features and capabilities around security, application performance, network visibility, and more. On todays Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, w

HN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go?
December 08, 2023

Welcome to Heavy Networking! On todays show weve got a roundtable conversation on the state of automation in the networking industry. This show was inspired by the recent AutoCon conference, which

HN712: FortiGuard Security Services: Invisible Operations, Tangible Results (Sponsored)
December 05, 2023

Today were talking security, but security you dont always see. Fortinet, todays sponsor, has millions of devices in the field. These are real-world devices seeing real-world traffic, all day, ever