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William is joined by Nathan Howard to discuss the Guardrail Paradox and the challenges of deploying frontier AI agents on live enterprise networks. Together they discuss building trust protocols like VIRP, securing enterprise infrastructure against AI hallucinations, and managing the risks of agent sandbox breakouts. Packet Pushers by Meter Episode Links: Watch this episode on... Read more »
NAN137: Beyond Guardrails: Building Trustworthy and Safe AI Agents for NetOps
Today we dive deep into the architecture of AI agents for network operations, specifically focusing on how to make them trustworthy, safe, and effective in production. Joining us to unpack all of this is Beni Bichsel, Co-Founder and CEO of NetFabric.ai. We discuss the actual network operations capabilities of agents today, the complexities of agent... Read more »
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Telcos have been offering satellite services as “add-ons” to their terrestrial mobile services, under the paradigm that telcos control the customers and satellites merely provide the connectivity. Scott and Johna debate whether that paradigm is backwards: Might there come a time when satellite companies own the customers, and provide terrestrial services as an “add on”... Read more »
PP134: News Roundup – Android OEM Slips Malware Past Google, Hardware Wallets Hacked, and More
It’s a packed security news roundup. We start with a multi-billion dollar crypto heist, plus a hardware supply chain attack against crypto wallets, and then discuss the PHP fire drill. European grocery stores feel the heat from OT cyber attacks, and Google discovers an OEM was slipping malware past Google’s security checks into Android-based set-top... Read more »
NB599: CISA’s Chilling Warning for Industrial Fridges; Arista Revenue Hits New Record
Take a Network Break! This week’s episode is a 50-yard dash through the week’s tech news. The Red Alert covers a critical XSS vulnerability in Apache Juneau. In the news, Google courts the US state of Wyoming with a $17 billion pledge for a new data center complex, CISA and other US agencies warn of... Read more »
HN850: AWS Takes a Unique Approach to AI Fabrics (Sponsored)
Amazon AWS is not new to the high-bandwidth, elephant flow-oriented data center traffic pattern requirements of AI. In this sponsored episode from AWS, Distinguished Engineer and Network Core VP JR Rivers and Senior Principal Networking Engineer Stephen Callaghan join Ethan and Drew to discuss running AI workloads on AWS. Together they break down why inference... Read more »
TNO079: Automation for the People
We’ve seen the capability that automation tooling has enabled for hyperscaler environments and beyond, but not enough emphasis is being put on improving the quality of life for network engineers and network operators. Scott Robohn is joined by Senior Principal Network Development Engineer Dave Mack to explore the human side of network automation. They explore... Read more »
N4N069: An Engineer’s Perspective on Agentic AI (Sponsored)
If you’re working on your CCNA you’re learning a lot of CLI, configuration tasks, and so on. But if AI can handle that for you, how much CLI do you really need to know? On today’s sponsored episode, Sergio Freitas, an Engineering Director at Cisco, joins Ethan and Holly to explain how AI agents are... Read more »
LIU026: Girard Kavelines: Life Sucks – Dealing with Burnout
Network and security engineer Girard Kavelines joins Alexis and Kevin to discuss his journey in tech, the realities of balancing a demanding career with raising seven children, and his approach to overcoming burnout. Together they discuss the intersection of IT disciplines, the value of career flexibility, and finding motivation through content creation and community engagement.... Read more »
D2DO318: Navigating Open-Source Model Providers
Kyler and Ned are joined by Mo Moustafa, creator of Ollybot, to explore the complexities of running open-source models through OpenRouter. Together they delve into model tuning, experiments with model providers, the roiling chaos that is the current state of inference as a service, and more. Packet Pushers by Meter Episode Links: Watch this episode... Read more »
NAN136: Outcome-Oriented Automation: Building What Matters (Sponsored)
Network automation projects often stall or face disruption when management can’t see tangible business outcomes. In this sponsored episode, Alex Henthorn-Iwane and Kyle Scarmardo of Gluware join Eric Chou to explore Outcome-Oriented Automation to avoid the merry-go-round of justification. Together they dive into how to make the right abstraction choices and how to align technical... Read more »
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