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

    HN783: BGP Routing Policy for Enterprise Networkers: Unpacking IRR and RPSL
    May 30 2025
    If you participate in the public Internet by announcing your own netblocks, you should be familiar with Internet Routing Registries (IRRs) and the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL). These are tools that help you be a good network citizen. In a world of BGP hijacks and other problems, these tools matter more than ever. We... Read more »
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    55 min
  • HN782: Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)

    HN782: Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)
    May 23 2025
    Netris is tackling the issue of automating multi-tenancy in an AI data center. Netris has your answer to this challenge, and it’s a solution certified to work with NVIDIA. We’re going to get into the nuts and bolts of Netris network automation with Alex Saroyan, CEO and co-founder of Netris. Along the way, we will... Read more »
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    59 min
  • HN781: CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update

    HN781: CCIE Service Provider Free Workbook & Track Update
    May 16 2025
    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 resource that anyone can access. On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with Andrew about what’s in the guide, the state of the CCIE SP,... Read more »
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    59 min
  • HN780: The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing

    HN780: The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing
    May 9 2025
    On today’s Heavy Networking we talk with Dan Wade about testing the network, inspired by Dan’s talk at AutoCon 2: “Step 0: Test the Network.” We discuss why testing is a good idea, and then explore four types of network testing, including unit tests and integration tests. We dig into Yang, RESTCONF, NETCONF and gNMI... Read more »
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    1 h et 4 min
  • HN779: Do We Really Need the Modern Networking Stack?

    HN779: Do We Really Need the Modern Networking Stack?
    May 2 2025
    On today’s Heavy Networking, a roundtable panel considers whether a modern network needs to be built around underlays and overlays. This isn’t just Ethan yelling at clouds. This is a legitimate question pondering the real-world value of an overlay/underlay approach. Is overlay everywhere overkill, or is that the architecture we need to deliver a safe,... Read more »
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    55 min
  • HN778: Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)

    HN778: Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Selector (Sponsored)
    Apr 25 2025
    Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a very new protocol that provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. As the industry heads toward agentic AI–in which an AI agent interacts with disparate applications, data sources, and other agents to achieve a task–MCP provides the protocol glue. On... Read more »
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    51 min
  • HN777: Overlay All the Things?

    HN777: Overlay All the Things?
    Apr 18 2025
    Today’s 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 to solve problems, and look at overlay and segmentation approaches including VXLAN, SRv6, and EVPN. We also drill into the idea that EVPN could become the standard... Read more »
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    52 min