Bits in Flight

On July 24, 2026, Verizon's CEO told analysts that the company had converted a central office into an edge data center for AI inference as a trial and that the available capacity sold out in 24 hours.

Total Network Operations, a Packet Pushers podcast.

A talk given at a Selector event in New York, published 24 August 2026.

Heavy Networking 831, a Packet Pushers podcast.

The Art of Network Engineering.

Every network engineer doing this work for any length of time has a telecom procurement horror story.

AI networking, much like everything else in the space, is developing very quickly and has what feels like a new acronym per day.

Tech Field Day Podcast, a clip from Networking Field Day 40.

Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded ahead of Networking Field Day 40.

Next-Gen Network Heroes, sponsored by Selector.

In 1980, a quantum physicist named David Bohm published a book that had absolutely nothing to do with network engineering.

I recently joined Greg Bryan to talk about the real state of AIOps in network management.

In 2017, Google researchers published a foundational paper called "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the transformer architecture that now powers ChatGPT, Claude and basically every AI tool flooding all of your social feeds.

The Network Buzz, the Laketec podcast.

The network automation market hit $15 billion this year.

After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers plus other natural language AI interfaces that integrate with select network management and monitoring systems, I have gotten pretty familiar with what LLMs & GenAI can and can't do

Mike Trappe and I had a great conversation on the Network Buzz, a Laketec Podcast.

The last week of June 2025 was pretty transformational for HPE networking.

I just spent a few days (May 13-16, 2025) at the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) conference and I could tell there's a shift happening in campus IT.

I had the opportunity to attend Networking Field Day 37 where BT delivered a fascinating presentation on quantum networking.

The year 2025 marks my 26th in data networking as a profession and over 30 years since I started experimenting with networks.

Super excited to be a delegate again at Networking Field Day 37 March 19th & 20th 2025!

The network engineering world is seeing a major shift.

BGP is the unsung hero (or villain, depending on the day) of the internet and is a bit like that coworker who typically kicks ass but occasionally causes some office drama no one wants to deal with.