Heavy Networking

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HN777: Overlay All the Things?
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
HN776: Security Platforms: Balancing Efficacy, Ops, and Emerging Threats (Sponsored)
Network security has evolved from stateful perimeter firewalls with maybe some IDS/IPS to a complex stack delivered as numerous unique tools, which often dont talk to one another and may need to be
HN775: How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot
On todays Heavy Networking, well discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organizations knowledge. The potential use cases for network operations are fascinating, and tod
HN774: Who Put These OT Risks In My IT Ops? Fortinet Has Answers (Sponsored)
IT and infosec professionals are used to operating and protecting mission-critical infrastructure; servers, databases, load balancers, and so on. But what about valves that control the flow of gas
HN773: Optimizing Ethernet for AI – An Update On the Ultra Ethernet Consortium
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) is an industry body that aims to optimize Ethernet for AI and HPC use cases. On todays Heavy Networking we get an overview of the UEC and an update on its e
HN772: Measuring Users’ Digital Experience with Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring (Sponsored)
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is all about understanding a users application experience, and pinpointing problems if the experience is bad. Under the DEM umbrella, youll find Internet Per
HN771: Is The CCIE Still Worth It In 2025?
The CCIE remains the gold standard for networking certifications. But these days there are lots of other avenues for developing your skills and advancing your networking career, including network
HN770: Deploying A Global Network in Minutes With Megaport (Sponsored)
In our conversation today with CTO Cameron Daniel of Megaport, we discuss their global WAN architecture, PoPs, use cases, the Megaport Cloud Router, and more. Megaport is our sponsor today. Its a
HN769: CI/CD Pipelines and Network Automation
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is a framework that developers use to help them manage and integrate frequent code changes. As network automation evolves, should network
HN768: Ctrl+Alt+Delivered App Routing Reinvented with Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Connecting your branch to your wide area network used to be simple enough. Call your carrier, get a circuit ordered, wait a long time, then turn it up. A little routing, and there you were. Cloud