EP 536 | JULY 28, 2025

Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects

This week on Network Break we discuss Fortinet supporting Post Quantum Cryptography in FortiOS, weigh the pros and cons of NetBrain taking money from private equity firm Blackstone, ponder an EU trade group that wants to annul Broadcom's VMware acquisition, review Q2 financial results from Intel and Nokia, and talk about even more IT news. | LISTEN NOW

EP 072 | JULY 29, 2025

Mobile Device Threat Management

Mobile devices blur the boundaries between personal and work devices and are packed with sensitive information, making them popular targets for malware, spyware, and data collection. On today's Packet Protector we dig into strategies for managing threats to mobile devices with guest Akili Akridge. Akili started his career pulling burner phones off suspects as a beat cop in Baltimore. Today, he leads mobile security programs for Fortune 100s and federal agencies. We discuss benefits and drawbacks of MDM, MAM, and MTD; Pegasus and one-click malware, rethinking BYOD strategies, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 057 | JULY 29, 2025

Orb - A New Tool for Monitoring Internet Connectivity

Orb is an intelligent app and platform designed to help consumers understand and improve their internet connectivity. Orb continuously monitors networks to give a complete picture of true internet experience, beyond just peak speed. Today's guest, Doug Suttles, CEO and co-founder of Orb, explains exactly what Orb does, including speed, responsiveness and reliability testing, plus the use of AI to help troubleshoot internet connectivity. | LISTEN NOW

EP 278 | JULY 30, 2025

The Future of HashiCorp Inside IBM

Day Two DevOps talks with Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp regarding HashiCorp's future within IBM. We start with a quick recap of IBM's HashiCorp acquisition and then move on to the challenges of bringing a young tech company into a huge corporation that makes lots of revenue from legacy products. They discuss how HashiCorp fits into a broader IBM strategy of building relevance in cloud, and why HashiCorp customers can feel assured that products such as Vault and Terraform will be around for the long run. They also discuss the future of infrastructure and AI. | LISTEN NOW

EP 035 | JULY 31, 2025

Well Actually . . . Listener Comments and Corrections

We ask listeners for follow up and you've sent it in! Today on N Is for Networking, we respond to listener comments and corrections on tunneling, the link aggregation control protocol, link aggregation in general, and DHCP options. We also talk about the network engineering certification journey. | LISTEN NOW

EP 180 | JULY 31, 2025

IPv6 Basics - Deployment

We're continuing our IPv6 Basics series discussing on this episode deployment.  We'll help you sort out why you should deploy IPv6, things to consider before starting a deployment, and what approach you should take such as “inside out” vs. “outside in" and when you should deploy IPv6. Lastly we explain why you should seek out some training for deploying IPv6. | LISTEN NOW

EP 037 | AUGUST 1, 2025

The Next Era of Network Management and Operations

What's the next era of network management and operations? Total Network Operations talks to Mahesh Jethanandani, Chair of NETCONF Working Group and Distinguished Engineer at Arrcus. Mahesh describes a workshop from December of 2024 that sought to investigate the past, present, and future of network management and operations. He talks about the IETF's role in the field of operations; how network operators can provide input and feedback to the IETF; service-level modeling; and the role of NETCONF, RESTCONF, and Yang in operations and automation. Mahesh also shares opinions on what needs to happen to improve the future and how the community can help. | LISTEN NOW

EP 790 | AUGUST 1, 2025

From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)

On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Cisco, we talk AI for autonomous network operations. We dive into the role of LLMs and agents, examine the notion of a knowledge graph and its role in agentic AI, and talk about how agents will be deployed and operated. We discuss agentic AI's potential to move network operations from automation to autonomy, and dig into rethinking AI network operations as moving from a rules-based to goals-based framework, securing agentic AI, and the role of the network engineer in a world of autonomous agents. | LISTEN NOW