EP 531 | JUNE 16, 2025

Cisco Spotlights AI, Unified Management at CLUS; Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Unveiled

This week's Network Break spotlights major AI and unified management announcements from Cisco Live US, a new QKD service coming online, $170 million investment in NaaS provider Meter, Cato Networks opening the SASE door to service providers, and more IT news analysis. | LISTEN NOW

EP 106 | JUNE 17, 2025

Planning for the Epochalypse

IT teams deal with technology lifecycle issues all the time–including Y2K, which enterprises across the world grappled with for years. The Epochalypse, or Year 2038 Problem, is similar. Specifically, some Linux systems’ date-time counters will go from positive to negative at a specific date in 2038, potentially wreaking havoc on embedded systems and any other systems that haven’t been updated. How should organizations prepare, and when? | LISTEN NOW

EP 067 | JUNE 17, 2025

Protecting Secrets With Vault and TruffleHog

Secrets trickle out through misconfigurations, poor tooling, and rushed Git commits. Today’s guest, John Howard, joins us on Packet Protector to walk through practical secrets management with Vault and TruffleHog to help make sure you don't expose your privates. John discusses work he's done to build an automated process in his organization for developers and network engineers to securely access secrets in Vault, and shares tips for how you can do it in his blog and Git repo. | LISTEN NOW

EP 094 | JUNE 18, 2025

Automate and Iterate With the NetBox Labs Community

On today's show, we're joined NetBox Labs co-founders Mark Coleman and Kris Beevers. They recount how they founded NetBox Labs and discuss its growth and how it's being used. We also delve into the NetBox Labs community and its importance for users. And of course, there's the ever-present AI discussion. Mark and Kris also talk about the evolution of network automation and where this movement can go. This is not a sponsored episode. | LISTEN NOW

EP 031 | JUNE 19, 2025

When Is It Time For a Routing Protocol?

If you need to route in your network, you can program static routes into all your routing-capable devices. And this can work. But at some point, you're probably going to want to switch to a dynamic routing protocol. On today's N Is For Networking, Ethan and Holly discuss the differences between static and dynamic routes, and when it's better to use one or the other. They also introduce several routing protocols currently used in networks today. Next week we begin a deeper dive into routing protocols, starting with OSPF. | LISTEN NOW

EP 016 | JUNE 19, 2025

When It Comes To Product Design, Don't Trust Your Gut

People consistently overestimate their ability to predict whether a new product or feature will be a success. Instead of blithely going forward with a project that takes up lots of resources and yields minimal results, Dan McKinley says we should get our ideas into contact with external reality as quickly as possible, and maybe do a little math first and see what the numbers say. Dan was an early engineer at Etsy and has been at a number of companies in roles from principal engineer to VP. He shares hard-won experience on successful product design, engineering productivity, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 033 | JUNE 20, 2025

Maximum Impact: Leverage Your Network to Advance Your Career (Sponsored)

At AutoCon 3 in Prague, Scott Robohn sat down with Ernest Lefner from sponsor Gluware to talk about lessons learned throughout his career: from his early days of pulling cable to becoming Chief Product Officer at Gluware and helping to found ONUG. Ernest talks about being a continuous technology learner, and also about the need to have people skills, how to learn from mistakes, and the benefits of giving back to the IT community. | LISTEN NOW

EP 786 | JUNE 20, 2025

From Intent-Based to Autonomous Ops With Cisco Crosswork and Provider Connectivity Assurance (Sponsored)

On today's Heavy Networking with talk with sponsor Cisco Systems about its approach to service assurance, how Cisco is embracing intent-based networking to deliver service assurance, and how network automation is evolving into autonomous operation. We’ll also get into the technical details about how products in Cisco’s portfolio, including Crosswork Network Controller and Provider Connectivity Assurance, help deliver intent and service assurance. | LISTEN NOW