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Telemetry Now is a podcast about networking, network engineering, observability, and emerging technologies. Each episode features host Phil Gervasi in conversation with subject matter experts about what's going on in networking and the technology industry in general.

Telemetry Now is a podcast about networking, network engineering, observability, and emerging technologies. Each episode features host Phil Gervasi in conversation with subject matter experts about what's going on in networking and the technology industry in general.


Welcome to Telemetry Now!

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Welcome to Telemetry Now, a podcast on networking, network visibility, observability, and emerging technologies with host Phil Gervasi.


Traditional traceroute is a widely used and very useful tool, but it struggles to accurately trace load-balanced networks. In this episode, Dr. Justin Rohrer joins us to talk about Paris traceroute, an extension of traditional traceroute, and how it's used to trace paths on a network that uses flow-based load balancing, or in other words, most of the internet. Learn more about Paris traceroute in Phil's blog post, <a href="https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-power-of-paris-traceroute-for-modern-load-balanced-networks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Power of Paris Traceroute for Modern Load-Balanced Networks</a>.

Justin P. Rohrer, PhD., currently develops Internet-scale network measurement, monitoring, and analysis systems at Kentik.  His career as a network engineer began in the late 90s, which was followed by an academic role as a computer science professor and a decade leading a research lab focused on improving network resilience and survivability, during which he published over 50 scientific papers and articles in the field.  As part of his study of Internet resilience, Dr. Rohrer has run more than 100 Billion paris-style traceroutes.

Justin Rohrer

Senior Software Engineer

Traditional traceroute is a widely used and very useful tool, but it struggles to accurately trace load-balanced networks. In this episode, Dr. Justin Rohrer joins us to talk about Paris traceroute, an extension of traditional traceroute, and how it's used to trace paths on a network that uses flow-based load balancing, or in other words, most of the internet. 


Using Paris Traceroute for Modern Load-Balanced Networks

Traditional traceroute is a widely used and very useful tool, but it struggles to accurately trace load-balanced networks. In this episode, Dr. Justin Rohrer joins us to talk about Paris traceroute, an extension of traditional traceroute, and how it's used to trace paths on a network that uses flow-based load balancing, or in other words, most of the internet.


The network is how we deliver the services and applications we use every day at home, at work, and when we're on the move. That means the network is more important than ever, but it's also more complex than ever. To effectively manage this entire system means having a holistic view of the network, or in other words, Total Network Operations. In this episode, Scott Robohn joins us to talk about TNops and why we need to rethink how we approach network operations.

Scott Robohn has 30+ years of experience in Internet infrastructure.  He’s served in a variety of roles in network operations / support, engineering, architecture, training, systems engineering, and technical sales leadership. Scott founded his own consulting company, TechSalesCraft, and is co-founder of the Network Automation Forum. He loves to keep learning about Networking, Automation, AI, Mobility, Security, Silicon, and more. He lives in Harrisonburg VA and enjoys spending time with his wife, 4 adult children, and 4 grandchildren.

Scott Robohn

Co-Founder of the Network Automation Forum

Total Network Operations with Scott Robohn

The network is how we deliver the services and applications we use every day at home, at work, and when we're on the move. That means the network is more important than ever, but it's also more complex than ever. To effectively manage this entire system means having a holistic view of the network, or in other words, Total Network Operations. In this episode, Scott Robohn joins us to talk about TNops and why we need to rethink how we approach network operations. 


The networking industry has declared that SNMP is dead, but is it? Is streaming telemetry all we should focus on today, or is SNMP still useful even in modern networking? In this episode, Chris O'Brien, Product Manager at Kentik, joins us to talk about the reality of SNMP and streaming telemetry and his thoughts on where the industry is headed.

Chris spent 10 years as a network engineer starting by manning the phones in the support department at a wireless ISP, helping customers trace cables and restart their computers. His experience culminated with leading network engineering at a company with 750 locations. Chris has always been obsessed with network monitoring, so when an opportunity popped up to build network monitoring tools, he jumped at it. Since then, he's been working with network and development teams to build monitoring solutions and has been fortunate to release some of the most popular and innovative network monitoring tools in the world

Chris O'Brien

Product Manager, Kentik

The networking industry has declared that SNMP is dead, but is it? Is streaming telemetry all we should focus on today, or is SNMP still useful even in modern networking? In this episode, Chris O'Brien, Product Manager at Kentik, joins us to talk about the reality of SNMP and streaming telemetry and his thoughts on where the industry is headed. 


SNMP is Dead. Long Live SNMP!

In this episode, Leon Adato, Nina Bargisen, and Doug Madory join the show to discuss their perspective on some of the biggest events in networking and tech in 2023. We discuss notable outages, security breaches, new submarine cables coming online, major acquisitions, and what the future might hold for networking and technology in 2024.

Leon Adato is a Principal Technical Evangelist at Kentik, and has held multiple industry certifications over his 33 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.

Before coming to Kentik, he was a speaker and blogger in the monitoring and observability space for over at decade. His IT career began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, sysadmin, and network engineering.

Leon Adato

Principal Technical Evangelist

Nina Bargisen is a subject matter expert on everything peering and interconnection related. She is also a prolific writer, speaker, and an experienced engineer and architect designing provider and content delivery networks for some of the largest streaming services in the world. 

Nina Bargisen

Director of Technical Evangelism, Service Providers

Doug Madory is the director of internet analysis for Kentik where he works on internet infrastructure analysis. The Washington Post dubbed him “The Man who can see the Internet” for his reputation in identifying significant developments in the global layout of the internet. Doug is regularly quoted by major news outlets about developments ranging from national blackouts to BGP hijacks to the activation of submarine cables. Prior to Kentik, he was the lead analyst for Oracle’s internet intelligence team (formerly Dyn Research and Renesys).

Doug Madory

Director of Internet Analysis

In this episode, Leon Adato, Nina Bargisen, and Doug Madory join the show to talk about their perspective on some of the biggest events in networking and tech in 2023. We discuss notable outages, security breaches, new submarine cables coming online, and major acquisitions, and what the future might hold for networking and technology in 2024. 


Looking back and peering ahead

2023 year in review and predicitons for tech in 2024

In this episode, Leon Adato, Nina Bargisen, and Doug Madory join the show to discuss their perspective on some of the biggest events in networking and tech in 2023.  We discuss notable outages, security breaches, new submarine cables coming online, major acquisitions, and what the future might hold for networking and technology in 2024. 


In this episode of Telemetry Now, Peter Sprygada from Itential joins us to talk about why the networking industry has been so slow to adopt network automation and how observability and automation go hand-in-hand.

Peter Sprygada serves as the Vice President, Product Management at Itential after serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Pureport where he was responsible for their multi-cloud network as a service interconnect platform. Prior to Pureport, Sprygada was a Distinguished Engineer for Red Hat, where he played the role of Chief Architect for the Ansible Automation Platform. Sprygada also held senior technical and leadership positions at Arista and Cisco, as well as several networking startups.

Peter Sprygada

Vice President of Product Management at Itential

In this episode of Telemetry Now, Peter Sprygada from Itential joins us to talk about why the networking industry has been so slow to adopt network automation and how observability and automation go hand-in-hand.


Why the network industry is struggling to fully adopt network automation

Remember SDN? It was the topic of every other blog and podcast 10 years ago, but where is it today? In this episode, Leon Adato, Technical Evangelist with Kentik, joins us to talk about the state of SDN today and how the latest AI craze may be the newest manifestation of software-defined networking.

Leon Adato is a Principal Technical Evangelist at Kentik, and has held multiple industry
certifications over his 33 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.

Before coming to Kentik, he was a speaker and blogger in the monitoring and observability space
for over at decade. His IT career began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom
training, desktop support, sysadmin, and network engineering.

Principal Technical Evangelist, Kentik

Remember SDN? It was the topic of every other blog and podcast 10 years ago, but where is it today? In this episode, Leon Adato, Technical Evangelist with Kentik, joins us to talk about the state of SDN today and how the latest AI craze may be the newest manifestation of software-defined networking. 


Are generative AI and LLMs the future of SDN?

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Hey, I'm Phil Gervasi, and welcome to Telemetry Now, a podcast on networking, network visibility, observability, and emerging technologies as well. So in each episode I have a subject matter expert with me to talk about topics that are, well they're honestly interesting to me, but also relevant to what's going on in networking, in network visibility, and what's going on in the industry in general, and of course, always staying close to the tech. So check out our current episodes here on our website, or you can find us on your favorite podcast listening platforms as well. Thanks.

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