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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Heavy Networking 490: Lessons Learned From A Large SD-WAN Deployment

Posted November 29, 201901:00:20

With more than 2,800 branch deployments in North America alone, our guest Snehal Patel is running one of the largest SD-WAN deployments on the globe....

Heavy Networking 489: Is BBR Too Unfair An Algorithm For The Internet?

Posted November 27, 201900:54:17

BBR is a congestion control algorithm (CCA) that's growing in use on the Internet. However, a design element in BBR starves competing CCAs for bandwidth...

Heavy Networking 488: Using Genetic Algorithms To Avoid Internet Censorship

Posted November 22, 201901:10:23

Today's Heavy Networking dives into a research project, Geneva, that uses genetic algorithms to evade Internet censorship. The project was developed...

Heavy Networking 487: Fortinet And The Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Posted November 19, 201900:43:06

Fortinet sponsors today's Heavy Networking podcast. You probably know Fortinet as a firewall company, but today's conversation focuses on Fortinet's...

Heavy Networking 486: Measuring Global Performance Of The Big 5 Cloud Providers (Sponsored)

Posted November 15, 201900:52:38

Sponsor ThousandEyes comes on Heavy Networking to review their research on the global cloud performance of AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, and IBM. Their...