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HN730: Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and More Transform Their Branches with Next-Gen SD-WAN and SASE (Sponsored)
If you havent made the leap from traditional wide area networking to SD-WAN, or perhaps youre thinking about adding security services to your SD-WAN infrastructure, this episode is for you. Rajesh
HN729: Open Source to Closed
With The Cathedral and the Bazaar as his guide, Srivats launched Ostinato, his open source project, in 2010. He needed an affordable network traffic generator at his day job, he was passionate eno
HN728: How Drivenets Leverages Ethernet Fabrics For AI Networking (Sponsored)
To run AI workloads, a network needs thousands of GPUs and those GPUs must operate in sync. If there is congestion or dropped frames, very expensive efforts could be delayed or disrupted. While
HN727: Kubernetes Networking Essentials
Where there are containers, there is networking. Today we dig into the networking that underlies Kubernetes, the open source orchestration platform for container-based applications. Our guest Karim
HN726: From Automation to Orchestration for a FinTech Network (Sponsored)
Fiserv is one of the largest payment processors in the world, In 2023 it handled more than 35 billion transactions worth $2.03 trillion US dollars. Its network is critical to the business. The
HN725: Standing up a DC Network Using Terraform
Matt Horn built a data center network through automation, remotely. This is the future of network engineering. Matt shares how his team did it technically: Terraform, a little Ansible, leveraging
HN724: How Packets Move Through a Network Device
Today we metaphorically pop open the hood of switches and routers, taking a look at the mechanics of how they work. We cover the three states: configuration, operational, and forwarding. We talk RIB
HN723: ‘It’s like Legos’: Developing a Network Automation Framework
Right now, we have the building blocks for network automation, but we dont have end-to-end designs or complete systems. Its like having a bunch of Legos but no instructions for how to build your sp
HN722: Ivan Pepelnjak’s Netlab Eliminates the Tedious Bits of Labbing
One dark day, Ivan Pepelnjak stopped labbing. He just couldnt make himself yet again go through assigning addresses, building links, putting devices in place, setting up OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, e
HN721: Goodbye Network Cowboys, Hello Total Network Operations
The days of network cowboy heroism are over or at least they need to be. Its time for network engineering to grow up and standardize how networks are built. Not only will this make life easier for