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HN825: Faster Than Dijkstra? Exploring a New Shortest-Path Algorithm with Bruce Davie
May 1, 2026
54m 43s
HN824: That’s Not a Job for an LLM: The Right Way to Apply AI to Network Operations (Sponsored)
Apr 24, 2026
1h 01m 11s
HN823: Defining A Modern Network Service
Apr 17, 2026
51m 10s
HN822: Now I Understand. You Mean an AI-Safe Zero-Trust Network Automation Approach (Sponsored)
Apr 10, 2026
1h 12m 08s
HN821: Boring Network Design Is Good
Apr 3, 2026
55m 52s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/1/26 | HN825: Faster Than Dijkstra? Exploring a New Shortest-Path Algorithm with Bruce Davie✨ | shortest path algorithmlink state routing+3 | Bruce Davie | Dijkstra’s algorithm | — | shortest pathDijkstra+4 | — | 54m 43s | |
| 4/24/26 | HN824: That’s Not a Job for an LLM: The Right Way to Apply AI to Network Operations (Sponsored)✨ | AI in network operationsartificial intelligence+3 | Avi Freedman | Packet Pushers | — | AInetwork operations+5 | — | 1h 01m 11s | |
| 4/17/26 | HN823: Defining A Modern Network Service✨ | network servicesnetwork automation+3 | Mark Prosser | Network Operator AdvocateNetwork Automation Dreamer | — | network servicenetwork automation+3 | — | 51m 10s | |
| 4/10/26 | HN822: Now I Understand. You Mean an AI-Safe Zero-Trust Network Automation Approach (Sponsored)✨ | network automationAI+3 | David Gee | — | — | network automationAI+3 | Curvium | 1h 12m 08s | |
| 4/3/26 | HN821: Boring Network Design Is Good✨ | network designnetwork automation+3 | Ryan Hamel | Zayo Group | — | network designautomation+3 | — | 55m 52s | |
| 3/27/26 | HN820: Cyber Week 2026 Wrap Up with Palo Alto Networks: Agents, Prisma AIRS and NGTS (Sponsored)✨ | AI securitySASE+3 | — | AI securitySASE+1 | — | Palo Alto NetworksAI security+3 | Palo Alto Networks | 38m 53s | |
| 3/20/26 | HN819: Recipes for Automation – A Look Inside Eric Chou’s AI Networking Cookbook✨ | network automationartificial intelligence+3 | Eric Chou | Network Automation NerdsAI Networking Cookbook | — | AInetwork automation+4 | — | 1h 01m 49s | |
| 3/13/26 | HN818: Introducing LIM: A Large Infrastructure Model for Multi-Cloud Terraform Migration (Sponsored)✨ | multi-cloudTerraform migration+3 | — | Packet Pushers | Cloud Provider ACloud Provider B | multi-cloudTerraform+3 | LIMCODE | 58m 35s | |
| 3/6/26 | HN817: Is There a Better Way to Do Software Defined Networking?✨ | Software Defined Networkingnetwork architecture+3 | — | Software Defined Networking | — | SDNnetworking+3 | — | 57m 29s | |
| 2/27/26 | HN816: Inside the Case: A Hardware Deep Dive with Meter (Sponsored)✨ | networking hardwarehardware design+3 | Joshua Markell | — | — | networkinghardware+4 | Meter | 58m 57s | |
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| 2/20/26 | HN815: All About PCE✨ | networkingrouting protocols+3 | — | Path Computation ElementPath Computation Element Protocol+2 | — | routingnetwork paths+5 | — | 1h 14m 10s | |
| 2/13/26 | HN814: Automating Your Network with Cisco Crosswork Workflow Manager (Sponsored) | Our topic today is building and running network workflows. If your network workflows live in a spreadsheet, a SharePoint document, or in your head, you really need a workflow manager. A workflow manager brings scalability, repeatability, and consistency to your network operations team. In this sponsored episode, we discuss Cisco Crosswork Workflow Manager. Our guests... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | HN813: What Should Networkers Know About Software Development (and Vice Versa)? | What should network engineers know about software development? What should software developers know about networking? Ethan and Drew sit down with Chris Rapier and Nick Buraglio to discuss why crossing these silos can improve outcomes for everyone. They break down why being a little curious about the infrastructure can help software developers write better code,... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | HN812: Nokia EDA: AI Ops You Can Trust (Sponsored) | AI is everywhere in networking right now, but most of it feels like hype. In this sponsored episode, we go deeper than buzzwords with Steven Butler from Nokia to explore what it takes to make AI Ops real, reliable, and trustworthy in production environments. If you want AI to deliver value, you need the fundamentals... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | HN811: What AI Startups Get Wrong | What is the real-world impact of AI on network operations? Drew and Ethan have a chat with Carlos Pignataro, Founder & Principal at Blue Fern Consulting, to cut through the AI hype machine. Carlos offers a thoughtful, balanced take on where the industry is headed, and where it’s missing the mark. Together they discuss Intent-Based... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | HN810: AI in Network Operations: Pragmatism Over Hype (Sponsored) | Are you an AI skeptic or an enthusiast? Ethan and Drew sit down with Igor Tarasenko, Senior Director of Product Software Architecture and Engineering at Equinix, to break down the reality of AI in the network. In this sponsored episode, Tarasenko discusses why APIs are the new CLI, the critical need for observability in AI,... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | HN809: EVPN All the Things! | It’s been over a decade since the first Packet Pushers podcast on EVPN. Now, guest Jeff McAdams can legitimately suggest that we “EVPN all the things.” Hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray dig into Jeff’s stance on EVPN/VXLAN. They look at how VXLAN and EVPN work; talk about use cases in the data center, the... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | HN808: Is IT a Young Person’s Game? | Is the ideal IT employee just leaving college or a veteran with years of experience? Russ White joins Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to discuss the complexities of this question. Younger professionals just out of college are more willing to work longer hours or unpopular shifts, learn new tools and skills, and take risks. Older... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | HN807: A ‘CLI Lifer’ No More | Andy Lapteff once considered himself a ‘CLI lifer.’ As a network engineer he wasn’t interested in Python. He didn’t want to learn to code. He had no desire to embrace any of the developer-like processes and tools creeping into the profession, particularly around network automation. That’s changed. On today’s Heavy Networking, Andy shares the professional,... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | HN806: Let’s Get NUTS! | Unit testing is a software development practice for checking that an individual component of code works before integrating that unit with other components in a larger program. A new open source project called Network Unit Testing System, or NUTS, brings the same concept to network automation. The big idea is that by incorporating unit tests into... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG | NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the continuing advancement of an open, secure, and robust Internet. At the NANOG Conference 95 in late October 2025, Ethan Banks chatted with Steve Feldman, a member of NANOG’s Board of Directors. Steve has been involved with NANOG since the very first... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored) | How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across the planet? How do you build such a service for scale, performance, and resiliency? One option is to build your own PoPs or use colocation facilities, run your own infrastructure stack, and connect everything... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup | On today’s episode, we take a break from one’s and zero’s for a discussion about starting a networking meetup. Our guest is Steinn “Steinzi” Örvar, who recently founded the ISNOG, a network operators’ group in Iceland. We quiz Steinzi about what worked and what didn’t. We also pick his brain for the nitty-gritty details about... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 10/24/25 | HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored) | The architecture and tech stack of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution will influence how the service performs, the robustness of its security controls, and the complexity of its operations. Sponsor Fortinet joins Heavy Networking to make the case that a unified offering, which integrates SD-WAN and SSE from a single vendor, provides a... Read more » | — | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | HN801: Will a Natural Language Interface (NLI) Replace Your CLI? | Could an LLM or some kind of an AI-driven language model, such as a natural language interface, someday replace our beloved CLI? That is, instead of needing to understand the syntax of a specific vendor’s CLI, could a language model allow network operators to use plain language to get the information they need or the... Read more » | — | ||||||
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