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By Russ White
culture eats technology for breakfast
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54 min
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Network architecture, routing, switching, protocols, operations, and network engineering.
Core internet protocols, DNS, interconnection, content delivery, and global connectivity.
Telecommunications systems, carriers, wireless networks, spectrum, broadband, and industry infrastructure.
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Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
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Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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AI is everywhere. While there are many questions about whether AI is a bubble, the ethics of AI, and the cultural impact of AI, in this episode of the Hedge Mike Bushong joins Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to talk about how network engineers can use AI. Are some use cases better than others?
It’s time for Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to gather round the hedge and talk about various items of interest.
How effective are AI tools–even agentic AI tools placed into a system–at building and testing software?
Deploying AI for AI Ops, or even just for general use in your network, is very simple–but we often forget that these kinds of new technologies need to be governed.
Strong opinions loosely held? This is probably not as good of an idea as it seems. Instead of producing confidence, it might produce overconfidence.
We often talk about “human infrastructure” in network engineering–but what does this mean, and how do we help engineers “produce” while helping them to flourish as individuals? You can connect with Catherine on LinkedIn.
Sometimes we can be so focused on the problems in front of us that we forget the people who are following in our footsteps.
Most designers and operators default to carrying all traffic–including network management traffic–across the same paths as application data, or in band. Is this the right choice, or should operators seriously consider creating an out-of-band network just for network management?
The entire technology world has, for decades, treated the IP address as a shorthand host identifier. This is clearly not the way IP was designed, but what are our other choices?
We are often told that if engineers who don’t go “all in” on AI will be left behind. While there are a few voices who argue that AI can be a dangerous tool, impacting not only the quality of our work, but the very quality of our thinking skills.