EP 522 | APRIL 14, 2025

Git Turns 20, An iPhone Airlift, Cybersec Silence Speaks Volumes

Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Ned Bellavance steps in for Johna this week. We start with a Fortinet vulnerability, and then opine on a memo from Shopify's CEO on the company requiring and measuring AI use by employees.

Git celebrates 20 years, DARPA names 15 companies to participate in a Quantum Benchmarking Initiative to scout out viable approaches to quantum computing, and Oracle gets called out about an intrusion.

The cybersecurity industry falls silent as the Trump administration targets Chris Krebs and his employer, SentinelOne; IBM announces a brand new mainframe chock full of custom chips, and Apple airlifts a reported 600 tons of iPhones from India to the US to avoid tariffs. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | APRIL 14, 2025

Get Data Center Automation as-a-Service with Nokia Event-Driven Automation (Sponsored)

Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA) is a modern infrastructure automation platform that combines speed with reliability and simplicity. It makes data center network automation more trustable and easier to use, from small edge clouds to the largest AI fabrics.  Today on Tech Bytes, we talk with Sam Arora from Nokia for more details about some of EDA’s features.  We discuss Level 1 monitoring, multi-tenancy support for MSPs, core platform upgrades, licensing and global flexibility which are included with EDA. | LISTEN NOW

EP 058 | APRIL 15, 2025

Network Discovery with NMAP: You’ve Got Swaptions

We’re diving into NMAP on today’s show with guest Chris Greer. Chris, an expert in network analysis and forensics, explains what NMAP is, the difference types of scans, how device fingerprinting works, and more. We also coin the term "swaptions" as we have some fun with NMAP. He also gives details on how to find NMAP scans, how to evade detection, and how the OS you’re using can impact NMAP scan results. | LISTEN NOW

EP 050 | APRIL 15, 2025

A New Free Tool for Visualizing the Wi-Fi Spectrum

If you’ve been looking for an interactive chart to visualize the Wi-Fi spectrum, look no further than guest Joel Crane’s spectrum viewer. With the spectrum visualizer, you can pan across the spectrum, zoom in and out, and select specific regulatory domains. Joel shares his inspiration for the project and how he accomplished it with a little programming help from an LLM. He also discusses future plans for the and upgrades to the chart for improved accuracy and ease of use. | LISTEN NOW

EP 269 | APRIL 16, 2025

Intergalactic Dataspeak and Making Data Actionable

Data and what you do with it is the topic of today’s show with guest Dominic Chapman, the Head of Product at Axiom. Dominic’s career focus is on data, how to store and how to operationalize all the data that different technology stacks create. We talk with Dominic about how the data does not lie, and how collections of data can be analyzed to find valuable insights, and options for what to do with all that data that you’ve collected. Lastly, we find out what intergalactic dataspeak is. | LISTEN NOW

EP 022 | APRIL 17, 2025

SNMP Fundamentals

Following last week’s introduction to network monitoring, we discuss the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), one of the most implemented types of network monitoring. We discuss how it is organized, operations that SNMP can perform, and versions of SNMP. This week’s bonus conversation is a discussion on the future for SNMP. | LISTEN NOW

EP 173 | APRIL 18, 2025

The IPv6 Test Pod Project

On today’s IPv6 Buzz we talk with James Harr, who created the IPv6 Test Pod project to help network engineers and developers experiment, for free, with multiple IPv6 environments to ensure that software and services will function in those environments. James talks about how the pod works and how to use it. He also discusses how he secured funding, the current state of the project, and how others can get involved. | LISTEN NOW

EP 025 | APRIL 18, 2025

Know the Packet Flow

Knowing the flow of how a packet gets from one end to the other is one of the most important pieces of advice given by today’s guest, Mark Prosser. He shares his journey in the IT industry, his thoughts on Ops vs. design, and the differences between working in a telco NOC and the enterprise sector. He explains the value of communication between teams, supporting business logic, and good ways network engineers can use automation and programming. | LISTEN NOW

EP 777 | APRIL 18, 2025

Overlay All the Things?

Today's Heavy Networking is all about overlay technologies, their history, development, and current state, both from consumer 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 overlay for all sorts of use cases. Our guest advocating for this point of view is Sergey Kolobov. | LISTEN NOW