Tech Bytes: Monitoring AI Agents and MCP Servers with Cisco ThousandEyes (Sponsored)
If you’re building, testing, or using AI agents and services, how can you get network visibility into, and ensure performance of, these tools? On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes about how to monitor and measure performance of AI agents, AI models and services, and Model Context Protocol servers. We’ll get... Read more »
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Tech Bytes: Why Equinix Should Be Part of Your AI Network Strategy (Sponsored)
AI infrastructure conversations tend to be dominated by GPUs, data center buildouts, and power and water consumption. But networks also play a crucial role, whether to support huge file transfers to a compute cluster, stream telemetry from edge locations to feed AI pipelines, or provide high-speed, low latency connectivity for AI agents. On today’s Tech... Read more »
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Tech Bytes: Building a UEC-Supported AI Data Center Fabric With Nokia (Sponsored)
The network plays a key role in AI model and inference training. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we talk about why you need a high-performance network for AI training workloads, essential technologies such as RoCE v2 and others that make Ethernet suitable for scale-out networking, the role of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium... Read more »
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Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Advances DNS Security with ADNSR (Sponsored)
DNS security is our topic on today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks. Specifically, Palo Alto Networks is here to talk about its Advanced DNS Resolver, or ADNSR, which provides a security-centric, cloud-delivered DNS resolution service. We talk about how ADNSR works, its features and capabilities, and how it differs from other DNS... Read more »
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Tech Bytes: How Lightyear Makes ISP Management Painless (Sponsored)
Telecom and ISP lifecycle management can be tedious and opaque. On today’s Tech Bytes, we talk with sponsor Lightyear about its SaaS-based platform that handles telecom and ISP procurement, tracks installations and inventory, manages billing, and more. We talk about the pain points that Lightyear can solve, the components of the platform, and how Lightyear... Read more »
Tech Bytes are short sponsored audio segments that appear at the end of Network Break episodes. We also separate them into this standalone feed so it’s easy to stay in the loop on new vendor developments.