The most popular shows from the Packet Pushers Podcast Network in one feed. 1-The Weekly Show (network engineering). 2-Priority Queue (even more network engineering). 3-Datanauts (the full IT stack including cloud). 4-Network Break (IT news and analysis from the week). 5-Briefings In Brief (interesting vendor stories in 15 minutes or less).

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D2DO287: Leveling Up in Data Science

November 19, 2025 37:51 6.45 MB ( 84.37 MB less) Downloads: 0

Ever wonder what it takes to level up your career in data science? Senior Data Scientist Darya Petrashka joins Ned and Kyler to share her personal journey from management and linguistics into data science, the real difference between a junior and a senior role, and helps us get under the “data science umbrella” to see... Read more »

PP087: Why SBOMs Are Cooler and More Useful Than You Think

November 18, 2025 46:08 7.63 MB ( 36.65 MB less) Downloads: 0

Just what’s inside that commercial software you bought? Does it contain open-source components, NPM packages, or other third-party code? How could you find out? The answer is a Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, a machine-readable inventory of a finished piece of software. Why should you care about SBOMs? Our guest, Natalie Somersall, is here... Read more »

NB552: Nokia Switches On AI Ops; IBM Seeks a Quantum of Advantage

November 17, 2025 44:58 7.79 MB ( 35.37 MB less) Downloads: 0

Take a Network Break! Red Hat Samba server has a remote command execution vulnerability, and we cover some follow-up on fusion as a viable energy source (still a work in progress). On the news front, we search for signs in SoftBank’s sale of its Nividia stake, Mplify debuts a new certificate on carrier Ethernet for... Read more »

HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG

November 14, 2025 47:46 7.84 MB ( 38.01 MB less) Downloads: 0

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 »

LIU004: From Fast Food to Leading Operations at an ISP

November 13, 2025 1:02:07 10.53 MB ( 138.53 MB less) Downloads: 0

Think you need a degree or a ton of certificates to succeed in tech? Think again. Matthew Oborne joins our hosts Alexis Bertholf and Kevin Nanns to discuss how he went from working fast food to leading operations at an ISP. Your starting point doesn’t define your ceiling; resilience, adaptability, and a willingness to learn... Read more »

NAN106: Unimus: Network Automation By and For Network Engineers (Sponsored)

November 12, 2025 44:49 7.85 MB ( 99.72 MB less) Downloads: 0

Tomas Kirnak, CEO of Unimus, joins Eric Chou in this sponsored episode to introduce Unimus, an on-premise network configuration management system built by network engineers to solve real-world problems. In this deep dive they discuss Unimus’ proprietary “Behavioral Tree” for automatic device discovery, the platform’s vendor support, the 70/30 rule, and lowering the barrier for... Read more »

PP086: Using Let’s Encrypt and the ACME Protocol for Domain Validation Certificates

November 11, 2025 44:39 7.69 MB ( 99.46 MB less) Downloads: 0

Certificates are the socks of IT—everyone needs them, and you always lose track of a few. On today’s show we dive into the ACME protocol, an IETF standard to help automate how a domain owner gets a domain validation certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA). Our guest, Ed Harmoush, a former network engineer with AWS... Read more »

NB551: Cisco Adds AI to Tech Support; Cryptography Hits a Post-Quantum Milestone

November 10, 2025 28:59 5.51 MB ( 22.3 MB less) Downloads: 0

Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Unified Contact Center Express. On the news front it’s a Cisco triple play: the company brings AI to professional services and tech support with Cisco IQ, debuts converged infrastructure for the AI edge, and launches a new cert geared for running AI data... Read more »

HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)

November 07, 2025 56:07 9.6 MB ( 44.26 MB less) Downloads: 0

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 »

TNO049: Automated Network Testing and Validation

November 07, 2025 52:50 9.01 MB ( 117.77 MB less) Downloads: 0

What does network testing and validation really mean? How do testing and validation fit within an automation workflow? Is it possible to run meaningful tests without coding skills? Dan Wade from BlueAlly answers these questions and offers practical insights into building trust in automation through test environments, using AI for ideation and problem-solving, and personal... Read more »

N4N042: Meet MACsec

November 06, 2025 52:19 125.55 MB Downloads: 0

MACsec is a protocol for encrypting Ethernet frames on a local (though not always local) network. Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky have an ELI5 (explain like I’m 5) discussion as to what exactly is MACsec and how it differs from IPsec. They talk about when and whether you need to implement MACsec with all the... Read more »

D2DO286: Scaling Kubernetes Across Clouds – Identity, DNS, and Security

November 05, 2025 40:39 97.57 MB Downloads: 0

If you think managing Kubernetes clusters is hard, what about managing Kubernetes clusters across three different public clouds? We dive into the challenges that arises from running multi-cloud Kubernetes workloads. These challenges include workload identity, DNS query resolutions, and security. Here to help us navigate this complexity and offer possible solutions is Goutam Tadi, Staff... Read more »

PP085: News Roundup – Naked Satellite Signals, Account Recovery Buddies, Busting Ghost Networks

November 05, 2025 52:28 50.37 MB Downloads: 0

Did you know college students are snooping on satellite transmissions? On today’s news roundup we discuss new research in which university investigators use off-the-shelf equipment to intercept traffic from geostationary satellites and discover that a lot of it is unencrypted. We also dig into the credential hygiene lessons we can learn from a corpus of... Read more »

NAN105: Campus Network Automation, Powered by Cisco Agentic Workflows (Sponsored)

November 05, 2025 44:30 106.78 MB Downloads: 0

Cisco Workflows is a new platform that makes network automation easier, smarter, and safer. On today’s episode, sponsored by Cisco, we get introduced to Cisco Workflows by Stephen Orr, Distinguished Solutions Engineer; and Reid Butler, Director of Product Management. They break down how Workflows helps you ditch repetitive tasks, roll out changes faster, and plug... Read more »

NB550: A Cornucopia of AI Switches; DNS Strikes Again

November 03, 2025 29:38 28.44 MB Downloads: 0

Take a Network Break! We start with some educational content on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, and sound the alarm about a sandbox escape affecting the Firefox browser. On the news front, a DNS issue triggers a major Azure outage that affected numerous services and caused problems around the globe, Palo Alto Networks announces enhancements to... Read more »