Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. On air since 2010, it’s the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

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HN798: Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored)

Posted September 26, 202500:44:00

On today’s Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. When I think of a SOC, I picture a miniature version of NASA’s mission control:...

HN797: What To Do When The Business Asks for “AI”

Posted September 19, 202501:07:25

When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probably doesn’t...

HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored)

Posted September 12, 202500:53:33

Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography...

HN795: Adventures In Latency

Posted September 5, 202500:57:36

Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If it’s in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox somewhere on...

HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking

Posted August 29, 202501:03:33

How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we...