The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods

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TCG081: Network Automation Forum: From Simple Survey to Global Community
05/08/2026 | 1h 4 mins.
William Collins is joined by guest co-host Eric Chou as well as Network Automation Forum founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann to discuss how their community emerged from a simple question: Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? They discuss the growth of AutoCon and how its practitioner-focused, vendor-neutral approach has fostered... Read more »
NAN128: Beyond RAG: Making Network AI Truly Agentic
05/08/2026 | 45 mins.
Eric Chou welcomes Juulia Santala, a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, to discuss her transition from traditional network programmability to cutting-edge AI research. They explore how she moved beyond simple RAG to make AI truly agentic, while solving some hallucination problems in production configurations. They also cover the number one skill network engineers need by 2027,... Read more »
PP120: News Roundup—AI Giants Praise Open Weight Models, Attackers Capture Captive Portals, a Tricky Mac Attack, and More
04/08/2026 | 1h 1 mins.
Packet Protector uncorks another News Roundup! We talk about attackers capturing hotels’ captive portals to steal Microsoft credentials, and the OpenAI-attacking-Hugging Face story and how it ties into a broader industry effort to keep the US government from blocking access to open weight AI models from China. Nvidia and the Linux Foundation launch separate AI... Read more »
HS139: When “One Cloud to Rule Them All” is NOT the Answer: Regionalization
04/08/2026 | 33 mins.
IT folks spent a lot of time in the last 20 years creating globe-spanning infrastructures that maximize performance while minimizing the number of data centers or cloud instances they operate. More recently, the steady rise of regionalized data sovereignty requirements has created counter-pressure. AI regulations are now adding to that pressure to ditch a single... Read more »
NB585: Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data Center Patent Issued
03/08/2026 | 24 mins.
Take a Network Break! We start with red alert for a serious vulnerability in HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server. In the news, Anthropic, not wanting to be one-upped by OpenAI, reveal that its own models are also ‘leet’ hackers. We also consider whether OpenAI and Anthropic have broken the law by not preventing their models from... Read more »

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