EP 544 | SEPTEMBER 22, 2025

NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation

This week's Network Break is big-money deals and AI moves, including NVIDIA buying $5 billion in Intel stock, Netskope riding its IPO to an $8.8 billion valuation, and Check Point acquiring an AI security startup. Meanwhile, Google jams its Gemini AI into Chrome, and rolls out a new payments protocol for AI agents to buy things on your behalf. Plus infosec shenanigans, a Cloudflare coding error, and more IT news analysis. | LISTEN NOW

EP 061 | SEPTEMBER 23, 2025

Cisco's Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul

As automation of machinery in industrial environments grows, there is a need for reliable wireless technologies to connect and control mobile assets. Mobile assets cannot tolerate dropped connections or network latency, which could jeopardize safety among other problems. Cisco's Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul is one such product that promises to deliver reliable wireless in industrial environments.  Today on Heavy Wireless, we welcome Jeremy Baker and Scott McNeil to help explain it in more depth. This is an unsponsored episode. | LISTEN NOW

EP 079 | SEPTEMBER 23, 2025

Rethinking the Architecture of Microsegmentation

On today's Packet Protector we talk with guest Philip Griffiths about work that's being done to reframe microsegmentation around enforcement planes, traffic categorization, and tiers of policy granularity. We also talk about eBPF's role in microsegmentation, an overview of SDP and mTLS, the work of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) around microsegmentation and zero trust, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 283 | SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

Lessons Learned When a Startup Doesn’t Take Wing

Today we talk to Elad Ben-Israel about his former startup Wing Cloud, and the language that was built along with it, Winglang. We discuss why Eland started Wing Cloud, lessons learned about founding a start up, and what the future holds for the Winglang language. | LISTEN NOW

EP 101 | SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

Scaling Intel’s Data Centers with Network Automation (Sponsored)

Transforming over 5,000 network devices across 56 data centers is no small feat. Doing that with a very small team is even more impressive. On today's episode, sponsored by Network To Code, we talk to Greg Botts from Intel, who with his team accomplished just that. We'll talk about this big automation project and how Network To Code's Nautobot fit many of Greg's criteria, including providing a network source of truth, supporting open standards, being vendor agnostic, having a low administrative overhead, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 039 | SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

Configuring an IPsec Tunnel

We dive back into the world of IPsec with an episode dedicated to IPsec configuration. After discussing a listener comment regarding transport mode in IPsec tunnels, Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky work through topics such as multi-vendor IPsec configuration, licensing, and the details of configuration and routing. Bonus material: MTU size and NAT-T. | LISTEN NOW

EP 184 | SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

IPv6 Basics: Dual-Stack

We're diving into another IPv6 Basics today with the topic of dual-stack, which means running the IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks simultaneously. We get many questions about the implications of running dual-stack, and in this episode we'll provide answers. We start by getting a little finicky about the definition of dual-stack, and then talk about when you should be using it, the impacts dual-stack may have on your network design, and how to think about dual-stack as a transition to an all (or mostly) IPv6 environment. We also touch on CLAT, which provides v4 connectivity across a v6 network. | LISTEN NOW

EP 043 | SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

Under the Manhole Cover: The Architecture of an Internet Exchange

In an IT world full of abstraction, overlays, and virtualization, it's important to remember the physical infrastructure that supports all those things. So let's get inside Mass IX, the Massachusetts Internet Exchange, to get a holistic view of the iron, steel, and glass of Internet infrastructure that keep all the bits moving. Our guide is James Jun, Director of Mass IX. We talk about how early exposure to Cat3 Ethernet cabling hooked James on networking, the operational and technical challenges of running an IX, and why James is excited about the future of colos. | LISTEN NOW

EP 798 | SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. You might think you don't have the budget or staff to run a SOC. Sponsor Fortinet wants to change that perception. We talk with Fortinet about its approach to the security operations center, including its three-tiered framework that aims to make a SOC accessible to more organizations. We cover SOC as a Service, a turnkey SOC, and advanced SOC options. | LISTEN NOW