Episodios

  • HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?

    HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?
    Aug 8 2025
    Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should build a solution using open source tools and a lot of coding glue, or buy a network automation platform from a vendor and construct your automation solution on top of that. Either way has tradeoffs. Network engineer Lee Harper joins Heavy Networking to... Read more »
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    56 m
  • HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)

    HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)
    Aug 1 2025
    On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some amount of responsibility for network operations to artificial intelligence? Cisco is our sponsor, and our guests are Omar Sultan, Director for Product Management of Automation and AI; and Javier Antich, Chief Mad Scientist for AI (yes, that’s his title!). We talk... Read more »
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    58 m
  • HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale

    HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale
    Jul 25 2025
    Adyen is a global payments processor whose primary business is providing payment services for merchants, retailers, and venues, as well as online payments. On today’s Heavy Networking we talk about a firewall automation project the company has undertaken. With dozens of change requests coming in every day that need to touch network and host firewalls,... Read more »
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    48 m
  • HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)

    HN788: Behind Megaport’s Network Automation Platform (Sponsored)
    Jul 18 2025
    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 Megaport’s API-driven software defined network from a legacy VXC overlay to an EVPN framework. This helped improve scalability, but was fraught with practical challenges, not the... Read more »
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    52 m
  • HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?

    HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?
    Jun 27 2025
    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 discussion about alternatives to SNMP and real-world use cases for those alternatives. This episode was inspired by a request from listener Nikolay. He says… While telemetry (gRPC, etc.) is... Read more »
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    58 m
  • HN786: From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)

    HN786: From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)
    Jun 20 2025
    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 regardless of what happens on the network. On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we talk with Cisco Systems about its approach to service assurance, how Cisco is... Read more »
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    50 m
  • HN785: How To Take Your First Steps Into Network Automation

    HN785: How To Take Your First Steps Into Network Automation
    Jun 13 2025
    There’s an old saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. On today’s show, we talk about taking your first step into network automation with guest Joseph Nicholson. He’s been automating at NTT Data for many years now and has some perspective to share. He’s a network engineer by trade,... Read more »
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    56 m
  • HN784: Accelerate Your Network Automation With Gluware Labs and New Ansible Collection (Sponsored)

    HN784: Accelerate Your Network Automation With Gluware Labs and New Ansible Collection (Sponsored)
    Jun 6 2025
    Network automation is today’s topic with sponsor Gluware. Gluware provides a network automation platform that targets both network engineers and automation builders. On today’s Heavy Networking, we discuss how Gluware supports these two constituencies. We also talk about a recent product announcement, Gluware Labs. Gluware Labs includes a free Community Edition of Gluware software you... Read more »
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    59 m