Heavy Networking

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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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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Heavy Networking episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Heavy Networking for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Heavy Networking episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Heavy Networking 582: The Future Of Networking With Nick McKeown

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06/11/21 • 69 min

Nick McKeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, stops by the Heavy Networking podcast to speculate on the future of networking. Professor McKeown has been a force behind the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement and has co-founded successful startups including Nicira and Barefoot Networks.

HN769: CI/CD Pipelines and Network Automation

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02/21/25 • 57 min

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 engineers adopt CI/CD? Guest Tony Bourke joins us to talk about CI/CD pipelines: what they are, how they’re used, and how they can support network automation efforts. We... Read more »

Heavy Networking 564: Seven Engineers At The Community Roundtable

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02/26/21 • 77 min

Today's Heavy Networking episode is a grab bag of topics delivered in our community roundtable format. Five engineers join Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to talk about subjects including IPv6, SmartNICs, firewall rule management, becoming a manager, and other topics.

Heavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2

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02/19/21 • 69 min

On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these gears and get them cranking is John Capobianco, automation maven and Sr. IT Planner and Integrator for the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament.

Heavy Networking 565: In Defense Of EIGRP

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03/05/21 • 90 min

Does EIGRP need defending? Can this protocol even be defended? Ethan Banks and Zig Zsiga debate the case for EIGRP and discuss major use cases, design considerations, scaling tips, and more.

Heavy Networking 569: New Metro Architectures For 5G, IoT, And Low Latency Services (Sponsored)

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03/26/21 • 50 min

5G, IoT, and low-latency virtualized edge services present a major opportunity for providers and enterprises to build and consume new services in the metro network. On today's Heavy Networking episode, sponsor Juniper Networks is here to share its vision of new metro architectures. Our guests are Amit Bhardwaj, Sr. Director Product Management; and Mats Nordlund, Sr. Director Product Management.

HN765: Telecom In the Bahamas: Lessons In Resiliency

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01/24/25 • 52 min

Many of us have had network design discussions relating to natural disasters. What if a fire comes through? Or a flood? For most of us, those discussions don’t feel overly worthy of our attention. Yes, we should think about it. Yes, we should plan for it. If we’re really serious, we’ll even dust off the... Read more »

Heavy Networking 634: Why (Not) MikroTik?

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06/10/22 • 64 min

Today's Heavy Networking gets into networking hardware from MikroTik, a vendor you may not have heard of. Our guest is Kevin Myers, a senior network architect and consultant who uses MikroTik with a variety of clients big and small. We'll find out what MikroTik is good for, and not good for, management and support, and more. This is a non-sponsored episode.

Heavy Networking 631: Saying No

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05/20/22 • 52 min

On today's Heavy Networking we talk about why it's important to say "No" when someone tries to put more work on you than you can handle. Guest Tom Hollingsworth wrote a controversial blog post entitled “No Is A Complete Sentence” about how to say "No," to even when it's hard to do. We talk about the nuances of this stance, the risks you take when you do, time management, balancing workloads, and more.

Heavy Networking 543: What 2020 Internet Outages Teach Us About Managing Remote Work (Sponsored)

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10/09/20 • 51 min

Stuff breaks all the time. With so many people working from home, most of the stuff that's breaking isn't yours, but that doesn’t mean it’s not your problem. Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by ThousandEyes, reviews critical outages in 2020 and considers network design tips for Internet and remote work. Our guests from ThousandEyes are Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan.

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How many episodes does Heavy Networking have?

Heavy Networking currently has 275 episodes available.

What topics does Heavy Networking cover?

The podcast is about Infrastructure, Podcasts, Technology and Networking.

What is the most popular episode on Heavy Networking?

The episode title 'Heavy Networking 633: Building DPU Apps With NVIDIA DOCA (Sponsored)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Heavy Networking?

The average episode length on Heavy Networking is 53 minutes.

How often are episodes of Heavy Networking released?

Episodes of Heavy Networking are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Heavy Networking?

The first episode of Heavy Networking was released on Jan 31, 2020.

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