The Fat Pipe - Most Popular Packet Pushers Pods

Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert for SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer Metadata Uploader, and then dive into a new endpoint discovery feature from Forward Networks, and Ericsson adding clientless ZTNA to its SASE offering. Aviatrix adds a Secure NAT Gateway for Microsoft Azure as a way to help Azure customers navigate... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb524-forward-networks-adds-endpoint-discovery-intel-forecasts-q2-layoffs/]

Confidence in a new technology is one of the greatest barriers to adoption of that technology. If you don’t believe it will improve your NetOps, why would you adopt it? This is especially true of AI products. On today’s show, we’re joined by Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer of Mist/Juniper to make the case for... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/total-network-operations/tno026-gain-confidence-in-ai-for-netops-with-juniper-networks-sponsored/]

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a very new protocol that provides a standard way to link AI models to a variety of data sources and tools. As the industry heads toward agentic AI–in which an AI agent interacts with disparate applications, data sources, and other agents to achieve a task–MCP provides the protocol glue. On... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/heavy-networking/hn778-understanding-model-context-protocol-mcp-with-selector-sponsored/]

On this episode of Technically Leadership, Chris Leonard joins to talk about the costs of intervention in a team discussion, whether that’s to bring a team back to a topic or to make a decision that needs to be made. We discuss hero culture (both in the team and as the leader), imposter syndrome, and... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/technically-leadership/tl012-weighing-the-cost-of-team-interventions/]

The Domain Name System (DNS) keeps the Internet running. On today’s N Is For Networking podcast, we talk about how DNS transforms human-readable host names into IP addresses so that Internet traffic can be sent to the right place. We talk about root name servers, Top Level Domains (TLDs), and other elements of the DNS... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/n-is-for-networking/n4n023-dns-turning-names-into-numbers/]