EP 537 | AUGUST 11, 2025

AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships

From a new Broadcom ASIC to competing agentic AI frameworks to HPE product announcements to yet another attempt to provide 5G services from the sky, Network Break is your guide to the IT news worth knowing this week. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | AUGUST 11, 2025

How Lightyear Makes ISP Management Painless (Sponsored)

Telecom and ISP lifecycle management can be tedious and opaque. On today’s Tech Bytes, we talk with sponsor Lightyear about its SaaS-based platform that handles telecom and ISP procurement, tracks installations and inventory, manages billing, and more. We talk about the pain points that Lightyear can solve, the components of the platform, and how Lightyear can help you save time and money. | LISTEN NOW

EP 058 | AUGUST 12, 2025

Wi-Co Wi-Fi Conferences with Peter Mackenzie

Technical conferences are an excellent avenue for building community. Guest Peter Mackenzie talks about his love for conferences and how they've helped him in his career. In fact, conferences helped him so much he started one in Europe called Wi-Co. It has grown to include North America so that more wireless practitioners could join in community and expand their professional knowledge. We talk about what the conference covers, what it's like to run an event, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 074 | AUGUST 12, 2025

News Roundup - Microsoft Dumps Digital Escorts; Palo Alto Bundles Billions Aboard CyberArk

Packet Protector goes global for today's security news roundup. Microsoft discontinues a program in which engineers in China supported the US DoD cloud infrastructure, TSMC fires several employees over allegations of attempted theft of sensitive tech, an Arizona woman gets 8 years in prison for helping North Koreans pose as IT workers residing in the US, and international law enforcement agencies join US agencies to warn of new tactics by the Scattered Spider hacking group. Plus even more cybersec news and commentary! | LISTEN NOW

EP 279 | AUGUST 13, 2025

Herding the Agentic Geese

Developers Rizel Scarlett and Ian Douglas join Ned and Kyler to talk about building an AI agent. Rizel and Ian work at Block, where they're part of a team building an agent called Goose. They talk about what the agent does, building challenges, observability, and more. They also dive into topics such as how using AI and AI agents can fit a variety of coding roles within IT; and how communication, literacy and fact checking skills are essential when using AI. They also get into the pros and cons of vibe coding, the emerging concept of vibe prompting, and how to be a responsible viber. | LISTEN NOW

EP 026 | AUGUST 14, 2025

OSPF Area Types

Ethan and Holly bring you the last installment of the OSPF series discussing OSPF area types. They discuss why OSPF areas exist, do a quick recap of what OSPF areas actually are, and then introduce the different types of OSPF areas.  Lastly, see if you can answer Ethan's rapid-fire OSPF questions. | LISTEN NOW

EP 181 | AUGUST 14, 2025

Answering Your IPv6 Questions

You've sent in questions and on today's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Nick, and Tom answer them. Questions include using DHCPv6 versus SLAAC in a home network, IPv6 and email services, a NAT66 recap, and more. Stay tuned for full episodes coming up that cover Path MTU discovery and IPv6 and containers. | LISTEN NOW

EP 038 | AUGUST 15, 2025

Building Things That People Will Use - ARPANET History with Jack Haverty

Building things for people to use has been our guest's goal since entering university in the 1960s. Total Network Operations is delighted to welcome Jack Haverty, who's been instrumental in ARPANET operations and innovation, the development of TCP, and more. He takes us through the history of the internet from the early days of ARPANET, the advent of switches and routers, and early systems used to troubleshoot connectivity problems. | LISTEN NOW

EP 792 | AUGUST 15, 2025

Understanding Agentic AI for Network Operations (Sponsored)

The next iteration of AI in network ops and automation is likely to be agentic. On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by HPE Juniper Networking, we talk about what agentic AI actually means, how AI agents will accomplish tasks and solve problems, how agents will get information about network state, and how they fit into the broader operational environment. We drill into issues around authentication, RBAC, and putting bounds around what agents can do. Our guest is Bob Friday. | LISTEN NOW