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This time we watch Cisco bring lossless AI to Enterprise Networks 🤖; reduce APs from the Wi-Fi to make it better 🤔; do GigE over old PSTN wiring 📞; DNS zone transfer straight from NetBox ↔️; use prefixd for Internet DDoS Mitigation 🌎; discover the hidden risk of staying in the wrong job 💼; use AGENTS.md to outperform on evals 🦾 and laugh in the face of 800 Gig Ethernet port configurations 💪. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Cisco is Bringing Lossless AI Networking to the Enterprise and it’s definitely not FCoE all over again, well maybe a teensy little bit - but maybe they’ll actually win this time 💪
Why Adding More Access Points Is Breaking Your Wi-Fi! because as Wi-Fi Miyagi says (other than being named after a type of antenna): less is more ☯️
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires is kinda like powerline networking, but instead taking advantage of the inter-room cabling most UK houses already have in place doing not much these days 📞
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan? and who even went that deep DNS diving to find out 🤿
Providing zone transfers directly from Netbox DNS is a novel way of hooking NetBox into other AXFR flows, maybe for pDNS mitigation or as a BCP plan for your DNS estate 🤔
The Future of the Control and Management Plane takes you on a possible journey of abstraction that starts with SDN, goes via IaC and you’ll never guess which two-letter phrase it ends with… 🦾
Cable cuts, storms, and DNS: a look at Internet disruptions in Q4 2025 as there were rather a lot, rather a lot more, rather a lot bigger 🎬
Shift Change Wi‑Fi Failures: Sticky Clients, Authentication Storms and Lessons Learned is definitely a problem you could never get to the bottom of on your 802.11 networks, but now you maybe can 🛜
Book Club 📚
AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou
Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
(Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
(Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
(Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)
🪚 Tools
BGP AI Agent
(BGP, AIOps, IXP)prefixd Automated DDoS Mitigation
(BGP, FlowSpec, DDoS)Cloudflare Radar
(Internet, IX, Transit)Beszel lightweight server monitoring platform
(Docker, o11y, NMS)
🎓 Learning
Build Intelligent Networks with AI
(Tutorial, 6 hours, AI for Networks)The Hidden Risks of Staying in the Wrong Job
(Video, 1 hour, Career Advice)Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents
(Video, 1 hour, AI)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings
🇩🇪 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Deutsche Borse, Germany, Frankfurt
🇭🇰 Network Engineer @ QRT, Hong Kong
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ FIS, India, Bangarde
🇮🇳 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange Group, India, Bengaluru
🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇳🇱 Senior Staff Network Engineer @ Zscaler, Netherlands, Remote
🇵🇱 Senior Enterprise Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Poland, Warsaw
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ KLA, Singapore
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Kraken, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ University of Manchester, UK, Manchester
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ First Commonwealth, USA, Allentown, PA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ SpaceX, USA, Starbase, TX
NotEng 🤔
I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed and saw things no human should ever have to see (for those of you living under a crab-shaped rock, Moltbot == OpenClaw == Clawdbot) 🦀
Iran blocked the Internet, then butchered its protestors. What’s the lesson for activists? and how exactly did they manage to cut off the resilient infrastructure that is the Internet in the region ✂️
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals, so get writing up your docs and knowledge into Markdown so you can take advantage of the AI wave yourself ⬇️
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? can never be unseen once it’s seen, just like wondering why the tea-towel holder looks like a cat’s… you’re welcome 🐈
My time at Amazon, Part I gives a big insight into the Levels and culture within Amazon, and speculates why there is no L9 engineer in the phonebook ☎️
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive will have you hooked, learning about the Golden Triangle and considering another angle to rapid Internet provision for “office workers” 🏢
Stop Laughing at AI: How It’s Actually Coming for Network Jobs (and What to Do About It) isn’t a shock piece, but has a scary underlying message; best get our learning hats on 🎓
Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers gives tips and tricks on mastering Markdown, and the reasons that Documentation as Code is a surefire productivity hack in the age of AI Ops 🚤
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NetBCN March 2026, Barcelona, 26 March 2026
NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 20 May 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026
Cisco Live EMEA, Amsterdam, 9 - 13 February 2026
IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026
Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026
FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026
SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026
RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026
Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026
AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026
BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
Industry 🏭
Why is Slough full of data centres? and for those of you not in the UK, find out exactly where most of the Equinix LDx estate actually is in relation to the capital 📍
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say because sadly, AIOps goes both ways - soon it’ll just be AI fighting AI for AI to make money for other AI… 🤖
Google takes down an invisible network that was secretly using your phone’s internet and it’s not really to do with Android either 👿
Colt UK Trial 800Gbps Multi-Core Fibre Cable on Metro Optical Network in London, so get ready for
conf t→interface EightHunGigEthernet→ shake the wrist off… ⌚️Taara internet is 10 to 100 times faster than Starlink and cheaper than fiber and is powered by light and lasers rather than LEO or fibre 🔴
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.