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MistFits Unmuted

A podcast where real-world network engineers share what they find interesting, challenging, and worth talking about in their day-to-day work. Each episode features a different member of the MistFits, an HPE Networking Technical Advocacy group made up of customers, partners, and industry experts recognized for their technical expertise and passion for HPE Networking.

Technology Now

HPE news, tech Insights and world-class innovations are revealed in dynamic interviews with HPE's foremost thought leaders and change makers that are propelling businesses and industries forward.

Packet Pushers: Heavy Networking

Heavy Networking is an unabashedly nerdy dive into all things networking. Described by one listener as "verbal white papers," the weekly episodes feature network engineers, industry experts, and vendors sharing useful information to keep your professional knowledge sharp and your career growing. Hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray cut through the marketing spin to explore what works—and what doesn't—in networking today, while keeping an eye on what's ahead for the industry. On air since 2010, Heavy Networking is the flagship show of the Packet Pushers podcast network.

Packet Pushers: Packet Protector

Join us at the intersection of networking and security! Whether you’re fending off ransomware attacks, securing remote workers, hunting for rogue IoT devices, or working through your latest compliance audit, Packet Protector provides practical information that IT and infrastructure pros can put to work. Every episode covers the latest security headlines and then drills into essential topics to provide technical and strategic insights on wired and wireless network security, access control, cloud security, pen testing and red/blue teaming, security hardware and software, and more.

 

 

 

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Technology Now

Episode 179: The evolution of self-driving networks: from driver assist to full autonomy

October 1, 2026 | The best piece of technology is often the one you don’t even notice. When it works, everything runs smoothly and the tech itself vanishes – but how we achieve this is changing dramatically with the power of AI.

This week on the show, we’re following up our ‘Self-Driving Networks 1-0-1’ episode with a ‘Self-Driving Networks 1-0-2’: what do these networks look like in practice? Sunalini Sankhavaram, VP Product Management, HPE Networking, joins host Michael Bird to discuss how machine learning works to help networks anticipate demand and respond accordingly, why proactive prevention is replacing traditional troubleshooting, and how self driving networks can isolate and treat threats before they have a chance to cause damage.

Packet Pushers: Packet Protector

PP129: Inline Segmentation – HPE Networking’s Easy Button for Zero Trust (Sponsored)

October 6, 2026 | Sponsor HPE Networking comes to Packet Protector to talk about zero trust inline segmentation. This is a feature available in Juniper switches that can segment LAN traffic using group policy tags without the complexity associated with VXLAN or other segmentation mechanisms.

On today’s show we dig into how inline segmentation works, common use cases, how it compares to other segmentation options, how inline segmentation can support broader zero trust initiatives, and more.

Our guests from HPE Networking are Abhi Shamsundar, Senior Director of Product Management; and Wes Purvis, Senior Director of Product Management.

Packet Pushers: Heavy Networking

HN841: HPE Melds Apstra and Mist for Self-Driving Data Center Networks (Sponsored)

September 11, 2026 | In this sponsored episode, Kyle Baxter and Sridhar Katere from HPE join Drew to talk about automating enterprise data center networks. They discuss how HPE integrates its Apstra and Mist products to bring AI ops and self-driving capabilities into data center operations. They also break down how HPE leverages the different strengths of each platform, how the integration can reduce the data collection tax that network operators have to pay, benefits such as predictive analytics, some real-world examples of how customers use the two platforms, and more.

MistFits Unmuted

Episode 3: Rethinking Antennas for Capacity-First Wi-Fi Design

Aug 11, 2026 | HPE's Rob Boardman and Stephen Cooper sit down with Wi-Fi expert Peter Mackenzie to explore how reframing Wi-Fi design from coverage to capacity impacts antenna selection and AP deployment using real-world examples.
 
To learn more: about HPE Access Points visit: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/juniper-series-of-high-performance-access-points.html 

Technology Now

Self-driving networks, GPU clusters, and infrastructure: behind the AI boom | Praveen Jain

September 10, 2026 | Creating effective AI models takes more than just huge amounts of compute. It requires the high-performance networks needed to connect increasingly powerful GPU clusters and move vast amounts of data. With the speed of AI adoption showing no signs of slowing, our entire infrastructure is having to change to keep up, but can the AI being trained also be used to increase the efficiency of the networks supporting it?

This week, Technology Now revisits the concepts of networks for AI and AI for networking, to see how much has changed in the last six months. Praveen Jain, SVP & GM Data Center and AI Networking, HPE, joins the show to explain:
  • The difference between a traditional data center and one optimized for AI
  • How to maximize the efficiency of expensive GPUs
  • Why infrastructure is becoming self-healing
  • The vision of an autonomous data center in the future

This episode is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.

Packet Pushers: Heavy Networking

HN834: HPE Self-Driving Networks: The Next Evolution of Network Automation (Sponsored)

July 17, 2026 | In this sponsored episode, HPE’s Sunalini Sankhavaram and Jose Tellado discuss the architectural evolution toward self-driving networks. Together with Ethan and Drew, they break down how integrating agentic AI enables an autonomous architecture capable of being proactive and not just reactive. They also discuss the importance of maintaining human trust in autonomous systems and how shifting to a self-driving network allows IT teams to pivot from daily firefighting to long-term strategic design.

MistFits Unmuted

Episode 2: How Attenuation Shapes Wi-Fi Surveys

Jun 28, 2026 | On this episode of MistFits Unmuted Rob Boardman and Stephen Cooper sit down with guest Dan Jones of Hamina Wireless to challenge everything you thought you knew about Wi-Fi surveys and why live attenuation modeling with HPE Mist changes the game.

MistFits Unmuted

Episode 1: Unlocking the Mist API

Jun 9, 2026 | HPE Field PLMs Robert Boardman and Stephen Cooper kick off MistFits Unmuted with François Vergès from SemFio Networks to talk about real world automation with the HPE Mist API and explore why the 20% of the functionality that never makes it to the UI, might be the most powerful part.  Learn more about Mist AI: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/mist-ai.html 

Technology Now

Self-driving, intelligent, and built for AI: the future of networking in the 2020s | Rami Rahim

June 25, 2026 | Recorded in front of a live studio audience at HPE Discover 2026, Michael Bird talks to EVP, President and General Manager of HPE Networking, Rami Rahim, about the future of our network infrastructure. Key takeaways include:

  • What self-driving networks really are, why they are important and how driving business impact
  • How trust can be a barrier to the adoption of self-driving networks, and how this can be overcome
  • Top ways AI in our networks benefit IT professionals around the world
Listen for a front-line view of where enterprise technology is headed.

Packet Pushers: Packet Protector

PP111: New HPE Mist Features Validate NAC Changes, Enable Inline Microsegmentation (Sponsored)

May 26, 2026 | HPE has announced new features in its Juniper Mist portfolio. On today’s sponsored Packet Protector, we dig into those features, including a dry run option that lets organizations test and refine Network Access Control (NAC) policies before pushing them out, a policy validation feature that can identify shadow NAC rules, and a microsegmentation capability aimed at branch and retail networks that doesn’t require an EVPN-based fabric to enforce microsegmentation policies.

Our guest is Slava Dementyev, Product Management Director at HPE.

Packet Pushers: Packet Protector

PP105: Cybercrime Has Gone Industrial: Insights from HPE Threat Labs (Sponsored)

April 14, 2026 | Threat actors are behaving more like professional organizations in an effort to launch more effective and profitable attacks. We explore this and other themes from the latest Threat Labs report from HPE, our sponsor for today’s Packet Protector episode. We also look at how older vulnerabilities are still contributing to today’s exploits, why security organizations should consider resilience and not just prevention, how attackers and defenders are using AI, and more. This episode was recorded on site at RSA Conference 2026.

Our guest is Madani Adjali, Vice President of Product Management (SASE & Security), HPE Networking.

Technology Now

How do you update a network without downtime? | Franz Seiser

April 30, 2026 | How do you update a network without downtime? This week, Technology Now is diving into the world of telcos and how they keep critical infrastructure running while continuing to improve their systems. We ask how silos have been used historically by telcos, how AI and cloud are being embraced and how you manage the switch from old to new architecture without impacting users. Franz Seiser, Head of the Data Tribe at Deutche Telekom, tells us more.