In this episode, we interview Sheikh Habeebul Haq who is the first visually impaired engineer to ever pass the CCIE exam. He tells us how the exam has been for him and how he helped develop accessibility in the CCIE exam.

What about you ? What's your excuse for not going for CCIE ? :-)

In this episode, we interview Marcos Hernandez who tell us about the Isovalent products and integration. From Live Protect, to Cilium which allows kubernetes container networking with the same level of abstraction, mobility and security as fabric networking.

In this episode, we interview Liz Rice, a contributor to eBPF. She tells us what this technology means for the linux kernel but also for future security app, for kernel observability and last but not least for container networking. A technology so good it's even coming to Windows.

In this episode, we interview Jean Christophe Rode, principal engineer working in the IOS-XR engineering team. He also specalizes in SONIC support. He explains how this open source operating system is gaining ground and what are the difference with Cisco proprietary IOS-XR.

No blue Hedgehogs are mentioned in this episode

In this episode , Tristan takes us through a tour of what Cisco is doing to make all network devices more secure, not just the new products. Security concerns are not just about security vulnerabilities, your base configuration has the biggest impact actually ...

Resilient Infrastructure overview: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/trust-center/resilient-infrastructure.html#~overview

Feature Deprecation details: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-resilient-infrastructure-feature-deprecation-and-removal-details.pdf

Alternatives: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-infrastructure-resilience-feature-removal-and-suggested-alternatives.pdf

Additional links on threat landscape in 2026: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/doubling-down-on-resilient-infrastructure

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/salt-typhoon-analysis/

In this episode, Kristopher Gabrielsen, Principal Engineer in Switching technologies tells us about his most critical and high-pressure situations and we talk about the future of LAN switching.

In this episode, Venkat Kirishnamurthy, a principal Architect at Cisco, explains what are the ins and outs of designin an AI datacenter. How is it different from another datacenter ? What kind of scale are we talking about ? What is the throughput required to connect 1000 GPUs together ?

Learn more about CX Services and how we can help you design your datacenter:

https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/services/index.html

In this episode, Tim Szigeti, Distinguished Engineer talks to us about Quantum computing, the latest progresses and what are the potential impact and opportunities it creates. We also discuss what is Cisco doing in the Quantum field.