Heavy Networking podcast

Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Ethan Banks & Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Ethan Banks & Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

 

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HN808: Is IT a Young Person’s Game?

Is the ideal IT employee just leaving college or a veteran with years of experience? Russ ... more

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#249

HN807: A ‘CLI Lifer’ No More

Andy Lapteff once considered himself a ‘CLI lifer.’ As a network engineer he w... more

08 Dec 2025

52 MINS

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08 Dec 2025


#248

HN806: Let’s Get NUTS!

Unit testing is a software development practice for checking that an individual component ... more

21 Nov 2025

46 MINS

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21 Nov 2025


#247

HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG

NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the ... more

14 Nov 2025

47 MINS

47:46

14 Nov 2025


#246

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 serv... more

07 Nov 2025

56 MINS

56:07

07 Nov 2025


#245

HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup

On today’s episode, we take a break from one’s and zero’s for a discussion about starting ... more

31 Oct 2025

58 MINS

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31 Oct 2025


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HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learn...

The architecture and tech stack of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution will influ... more

24 Oct 2025

58 MINS

58:39

24 Oct 2025


#243

HN801: Will a Natural Language Interface (NLI) Replace Your CLI?

Could an LLM or some kind of an AI-driven language model, such as a natural language inter... more

17 Oct 2025

59 MINS

59:51

17 Oct 2025


#242

HN800: Root Cause Analysis for the Entire Stack (Sponsored)

Today’s show is one of those “We’re living in the future” episodes, where we talk ab... more

10 Oct 2025

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:47

10 Oct 2025


#241

HN799: Multi-Homing IPv6 to Your Home Lab

If you’ve got an Autonomous System Number (ASN) and an IPv6 block, you too can multi... more

03 Oct 2025

47 MINS

47:28

03 Oct 2025


#240

HN798: Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. When I think of a SOC... more

26 Sep 2025

44 MINS

44:00

26 Sep 2025


#239

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,... more

19 Sep 2025

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19 Sep 2025


#238

HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)

Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are n... more

12 Sep 2025

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12 Sep 2025


#237

HN795: Adventures In Latency

Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If it’s in the network, was it... more

05 Sep 2025

57 MINS

57:36

05 Sep 2025


#236

HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships car... more

29 Aug 2025

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:33

29 Aug 2025


#235

HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory

Today’s episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the di... more

22 Aug 2025

1 HR 34 MINS

1:34:35

22 Aug 2025


#234

HN792: Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)

LLMs and AI-powered chatbots are becoming a regular feature of network operations tools an... more

15 Aug 2025

45 MINS

45:43

15 Aug 2025


#233

HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?

Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should buil... more

08 Aug 2025

55 MINS

55:32

08 Aug 2025


#232

HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)

On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some ... more

01 Aug 2025

57 MINS

57:45

01 Aug 2025


#231

HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale

Adyen is a global payments processor whose primary business is providing payment services ... more

25 Jul 2025

48 MINS

48:25

25 Jul 2025


#230

HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)

We have a network automation discussion for you today from sponsor Megaport. At the AutoCo... more

18 Jul 2025

51 MINS

51:50

18 Jul 2025


#229

HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?

SNMP is still widely used in today’s networks. But modern telemetry and network obse... more

27 Jun 2025

58 MINS

58:27

27 Jun 2025


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HN786: From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance ...

Service provider networks face a couple of difficult challenges: how to map service level ... more

20 Jun 2025

49 MINS

49:38

20 Jun 2025


#227

HN785: How To Take Your First Steps Into Network Automation

There’s an old saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.... more

13 Jun 2025

55 MINS

55:50

13 Jun 2025


#226

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

Network automation is today’s topic with sponsor Gluware. Gluware provides a network... more

06 Jun 2025

59 MINS

59:07

06 Jun 2025


#225

HN783: BGP Routing Policy for Enterprise Networkers: Unpacking IRR and RPSL

If you participate in the public Internet by announcing your own netblocks, you should be ... more

30 May 2025

54 MINS

54:30

30 May 2025


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HN782: Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)

Netris is tackling the issue of automating multi-tenancy in an AI data center. Netris has ... more

23 May 2025

58 MINS

58:33

23 May 2025


#223

HN781: CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update

While studying for the CCIE Service Provider certification, Andrew Ohanian assembled a wor... more

16 May 2025

59 MINS

59:13

16 May 2025


#222

HN780: The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing

On today’s Heavy Networking we talk with Dan Wade about testing the network, inspire... more

09 May 2025

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:53

09 May 2025


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HN779: Do We Really Need the Modern Networking Stack?

On today’s Heavy Networking, a roundtable panel considers whether a modern network needs t... more

02 May 2025

55 MINS

55:15

02 May 2025