EP 542 | SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks

We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX.

SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase of AI security startup AIM, Microsoft researchers tout hollow core fiber tests that out-perform glass core fiber optics, and Wi-Fi 7 helps drive up WLAN revenues.

Google gets wrists slapped by US anti-trust court and French regulator, Penn researchers transmit quantum signals alongside TCP/IP packets over standard optical fiber network, HPE posts record revenues, and Broadcom gets $10 billion to build custom AI chips for an unnamed customer. | LISTEN NOW

EP 060 | SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

CNAE – A New Wired Networking Certification From the CWNP

The CWNP offers vendor-neutral certifications for wireless networking professionals. This summer, the organization rolled out a wired certification, the Certified Network Administrator and Engineer (CNAE). This cert is aimed at wired and wireless network engineers to ensure they have a solid grounding in switching, routing, cabling, and wired protocols. The CWNP says the cert isn’t dependent on any vendor-specific information, and is intended to provide practical knowledge to help engineers develop their networking skills.

Keith Parsons talks with Tom Carpenter, Director at CWNP, about why a wireless certification organization offers a wired networking cert, what the CNAE covers, why wired networking fundamentals matter, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 077| SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

News Roundup–Drift Breach Has Long Reach; FCC Investigates Its Own IoT Security Program

Is any publicity good publicity? On today’s News Roundup we talk about how Salesloft, which makes the Drift chat agent that’s been used as a jumping-off point for credential harvesting and data breach attacks against a bunch of big-name companies, is testing that proposition. We also discuss bugs affecting industrial refrigeration controllers, and Microsoft making multi-factor authentication mandatory for accounts that sign in to the CLI for Azure and other platforms.

Other topics include AI bug reporting, phishing attacks against ScreenConnect super-administrators, and how thousands of NetScaler devices are still vulnerable to an active exploit.

The FCC is causing uncertainty about its Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer IoT devices as it investigates the organization tasked with certifying devices, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is moving forward with a contract for surveillance software from Paragon Systems, a developer gets a four-year jail sentence for installing a software kill-switch that took down his employer’s computer systems after he was fired, and a recent patch by WhatsApp of a zero-click vulnerability highlights the challenges of secure BYOD. | LISTEN NOW

EP 282 | SEPTEMBER 10, 2025

Simplifying Complex Kubernetes Deployments With kro

Kubernetes is flexible and customizable, but it can also be notoriously complex and difficult to deploy to. On today’s Day Two DevOps we learn about kro (Kube Resource Operator), an open-source tool that helps simplify complex application deployments.

Our guest is Islam Mahgoub, a Solutions Architect at AWS focused on building kro. We talk about how different personas in an org use kro, how kro figures out deployment order and resolves drift, available constraints and sanity checks on deployments, the core components of kro, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 038 | SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

Well Actually 02 – OSPF Multi-Area and LSA Types

We got some interesting listener feedback from our series on OSPF, so today’s N Is for Networking is another “Well actually” episode where we dig into that feedback. In particular, we’ll cover a defense of OSPF multi-area deployments, and dig into OSPF LSA types. | LISTEN NOW

EP 183 | SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

Measuring IPv6 and IPv6 Statistics

Today we talk about measuring IPv6 and IPv6 statistics. We talk about why it’s useful to measure IPv6, how to track v6 deployment initiatives, and tools to help with your measurements. | LISTEN NOW

EP 041 | SEPTEMBER 12, 2025

From Ansible to AI: Jeremy Schulman on the Evolution of Network Automation

Jeremy Schulman has been working at network automation for much of his professional life. On today’s Total Network Operations, host Scott Robohn talks with Jeremy about his ongoing quest to get the network engineering bottleneck out of production.

They discuss the early days of network automation when engineers tried to adopt tools from compute side of the house, the rise of more purpose-built tooling, figuring out which DevOps principles can be applied to networking, approaching network automation as a discipline, and continuous efforts to remove friction from complex IT processes.

They also discuss the rise of AI tools and agentic AI for network automation, rapid innovations in LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and why AI can be a true enabler for Ops teams.

Jeremy works with sprawling, intricate IT systems, and he brings hard-won insights to this conversation. | LISTEN NOW

EP 796 | SEPTEMBER 12, 2025

The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)

Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography overhaul is now. We talk with Richu Channakeshava, Principal Product Manager leading Quantum Security at Palo Alto Networks, our sponsor for this episode. Richu walks us through a framework for addressing those issues. We discuss algorithms, a little math, the essential components of a post-quantum strategy, capacity planning considerations when selecting ciphers, and more.| LISTEN NOW