Heavy Networking from Packet Pushers Podcast
1) HN811: What AI Startups Get Wrong
What is the real-world impact of AI on network operations? Drew and Ethan have a chat with Carlos Pignataro, Founder & Principal at Blue Fern Consulting, to cut through the AI hype machine. Carlos...Show More
2) HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)
How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across the planet? How do you build such a service for scale, perfor...Show More
HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)
56:07 | Nov 7th, 2025
3) HN797: What To Do When The Business Asks for “AI”
When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probably doesn’t know what their AI idea might mean for infra...Show More
4) HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory
Today’s episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the differences among TCAM, SRAM, DRAM, and HBM, and all the complex tradeoffs that go into allocating memory resour...Show More
5) HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)
We have a network automation discussion for you today from sponsor Megaport. At the AutoCon3 conference earlier this year, Luke Gollan presented on a complex network automation project migrating Megap...Show More
6) HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?
SNMP is still widely used in today’s networks. But modern telemetry and network observability are bringing changes to network monitoring. Today’s Heavy Networking is a roundtable discussio...Show More
7) HN786: From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)
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 regardl...Show More
8) HN781: CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update
While studying for the CCIE Service Provider certification, Andrew Ohanian assembled a workbook to help him prepare. It’s packed with lab exercises, and Andrew has turned it into a free Web reso...Show More
9) 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 or ...Show More
HN774: Who Put These OT Risks In My IT Ops? Fortinet Has Answers (Sponsored)
46:53 | Mar 28th, 2025
10) 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 today’s Heavy Networking we get an overview of the UEC and an update on its ef...Show More
HN773: Optimizing Ethernet for AI – An Update On the Ultra Ethernet Consortium
1:22:39 | Mar 21st, 2025