EP 552 | NOVEMBER 17, 2025

Nokia Switches On AI Ops; IBM Seeks a Quantum of Advantage

Today on Network Break we search for signs in SoftBank's sale of its Nividia stake, Nokia announces new data center switches and AI Ops capabilities in its EDA platform. Aviatrix adds zero trust for cloud workloads, IBM touts its Quantum Nighthawk chip and rolls out a public tracker of quantum advantage experiments, Microsoft adds a second quantum lab to its facility in Denmark, and more tech news and analysis. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | NOVEMBER 17, 2025

Monitoring AI Agents and MCP Servers with Cisco ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

If you’re building, testing, or using AI agents and services, how can you get network visibility into, and ensure performance of, these tools? On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes  about how to monitor and measure performance of AI agents, AI models and services, and Model Context Protocol servers. We’ll get examples of the network issues that need observability, critical metrics, how Cisco ThousandEyes instruments agentic AI, and more.| LISTEN NOW

EP 117 | NOVEMBER 18, 2025

Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives:  What That Means for Your Organization (Sponsored)

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) initiatives aren’t just “the right thing to do”, they can also save companies real dollars, particularly if they’re investing in data centers and other infrastructure. Join Jonathan Ciccio, Continuous Improvement Manager for The Siemon Company, and our show hosts as we discuss The Siemon Company's ESG initiatives. The Siemon Company has been in business for 122 years, and designs and manufactures copper, fiber and high speed connectivity solutions for data centers, smart buildings, and telecommunications. | LISTEN NOW

EP 087 | NOVEMBER 18, 2025

Why SBOMs Are Cooler and More Useful Than You Think

Just what's inside that commercial software you bought? One way to find out is a Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, a machine-readable inventory of all the elements in a finished piece of software. Natalie Somersall returns to Packet Protector to talk about what SBOMs are, why they matter, some of the nitty-gritty on complexity of building and using SBOMs, and how to incorporate them into your security and business resilience programs. | LISTEN NOW

EP 065 | NOVEMBER 18, 2025

Using Orb to Monitor the Quality of Your Internet Connections

With the help of Josh Hardy, Co-Founder and CTO of Orb, we introduce Orb.  Orb is a suite app for OS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux that is a new way to look at your internet connectivity.  Josh gives us a little background on why and how Orb was created,  He then goes into more detail on the measurement methodology behind the Orb scores of things like responsiveness, reliability and speed of your internet connectivity.   This is not a sponsored episode. | LISTEN NOW

EP 287 | NOVEMBER 19, 2025

Leveling Up in Data Science

Ever wonder what it takes to level up your career in data science? Senior Data Scientist Darya Petrashka joins Ned and Kyler to share her personal journey from management and linguistics into data science, the real difference between a junior and a senior role, and helps us get under the “data science umbrella” to see what's under there. Whether you're a seasoned engineer or looking to make a career switch, this episode is packed with essential advice!| LISTEN NOW

EP 043 | NOVEMBER 20, 2025

Redundancy vs. High Availability Part 1

In today's chat, Holly and Ethan consider a question from listener Douglas who asks, “How do you approach designing a network for high availability and redundancy?” They start by defining differences between redundancy and high availability, and talk about Holly's experience with her own customers. Then they share examples of how to achieve redundancy in devices, protocols, load balancers, and more. Keep an eye out for Part 2, where they dive deeper into ways to deliver high availability. | LISTEN NOW

EP 188 | NOVEMBER 20, 2025

IPv6 Adoption for an Entire Country

What does it take for an entire country to adopt IPv6? Our guest today is Tenanoia (Noia) Simona, CEO of Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation, the country’s sole telecommunications provider. She’s here to walk us through the difficulties of connecting the many islands of Tuvalu and their journey to achieving one of the world’s highest IPv6 adoption rates. | LISTEN NOW

EP 050 | NOVEMBER 21, 2025

Resiliency and Transparency with Andy Lapteff

Today Scott interviews Andy Lapteff. He opens up about his non-linear career path, starting from a working class background and his physical jobs in telecom to becoming a senior product marketing manager and podcaster. Join us as Andy shares candid stories of how he developed his resilience and the heartwarming origin story for the Art of Network Engineering podcast! | LISTEN NOW

EP 806 | NOVEMBER 21, 2025

Let's Get NUTS!

A new open source project called Network Unit Testing System, or NUTS, brings the concept of unit testing to network automation. The big idea is that by incorporating unit tests into an automation workflow, you can help ensure that the network is operating in your desired state. On today's Heavy Networking we talk with NUTS maintainers Urs Baumann and Marco Martinez about the concept of unit testing, how it applies to the network domain, use cases for the NUTS software, the components required to use NUTS, where NUTS fits into workflows, and more. | LISTEN NOW