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Cisco’s Martin Lund joins David Bombal to unpack how AI-scale networking really works - and why a 51.2 Tbps, 64×800G, post-quantum–ready router matters. We break down scale-up vs scale-out vs scale-across, deep buffers to prevent drops on long-haul links, line-rate IPsec/MACsec, SONiC vs IOS XR, P4 programmability, coherent optics for ~1000 km DCI, and how these pieces enable exabit-class fabrics for AI clusters.
What you’ll learn
• Why GPUs are useless without massive, reliable interconnects
• 51.2 Tbps with 64×800G ports and what that enables for AI training
• Deep buffers vs shallow buffers and when each wins
• Line-rate encryption today and post-quantum readiness tomorrow
• SONiC on Cisco Silicon One, P4, and automation at hyperscale
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02:48 - Cisco's Announcement
06:12 - Data Center Scaling
07:02 - Data Centres Scaling Across
11:08 - New Router Speeds
13:24 - Securing the Data Center (Quantum Computing)
17:57 - Are Deep Buffers Efficient?
19:25 - New Protocols
22:50 - Data Center Infrastructure
24:07 - 8804 Router Innovations
25:33 - The Future of Data Centers
27:50 - Conclusion

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#518: How Cisco Links Data Centers: 64x800G at 51.2 Tbps Securely

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Two veteran OSINT investigators show how they pull hidden data from TikTok, Telegram, X, Cash App and WordPress using simple browser bookmarklets. No malware, no exploits, just JavaScript in your browser. They also show how to build these tools with AI in minutes, even if you can't code, and how to stay safe with sock puppets, VMs and VPNs. Timestamps below.

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0:00 - Coming up
0:41 - Updates with Griffin and Micah
02:44 - Brilliant sponsored segment
03:42 - Bookmarklet explained
08:16 - Real-world use cases of bookmarklets
11:11 - How do bookmarklets work
13:17 - Free tools // Tools walkthrough
16:55 - Using AI for safe bookmarklets // Protecting your system
21:24 - Using AI for safe bookmarklets demo
23:56 - More bookmarklet demos
31:20 - Efficiency with bookmarklets
33:09 - More bookmarklet demos
39:31 - Making a bookmarklet with AI
43:38 - Easter egg bookmarklet
44:56 - OSINT online training academy
48:32 - Conclusion

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#519: Build Your First OSINT Bookmarklet in 5 Minutes

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Apple says iPhone is extremely hard to hack. OTW says he keeps finding real malware on normal people's iPhones. We talk Pegasus spyware, the Meta vs NSO lawsuit over WhatsApp, Apple's new memory integrity protections, and why a $5M bug bounty still won't stop well-funded spyware. We also get into how one infected phone can take over your entire WiFi and smart home, why your router and VPN box are the weakest link, and what “everything is hackable” really means for you.

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0:00 - Coming Up
0:49 - Intro
01:53 - Brilliant Ad
03:00 - What are Pegasus and the NSO?
08:14 - Isn't Facebook the Same as the NSO?
11:39 - Can Governments Use Pegasus?
14:43 - When is the NSA Allowed to Spy on You?
16:39 - Will the Court Ruling Change Anything?
18:23 - NSO's USA Acquisition
20:06 - Are iPhones Impossible to Hack?
24:21 - IOS vs Android vs Graphene
28:03 - Is it Easy to Hack an iPhone?
29:40 - Apple's Bug Bounty Program
31:57 - IOS vs Android vs Graphene (Cont.)
35:55 - Are Flip Phones Secure?
41:25 - How to Protect yourself?
45:30 - VPN Hacking
46:44 - OTW's Hope for the Future
48:00 - Hackers Arise New Courses (with Discount Code)
50:08 - Conclusion

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#520: Watch Your WiFi: One Infected Phone Takes Over Your Life

GrapheneOS expert MetropleX joins David Bombal to bust myths. We cover banking apps, notifications, Play Services, and why GrapheneOS is more secure than iOS's lockdown mode.

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01:15 - "First time, huh?" 
02:04 - Proton VPN sponsored segment 
03:32 - Metroplex introduction 
04:14 - Myths and misconceptions about GrapheneOS 
05:55 - GrapheneOS + Google Pixel 
13:17 - Defining "tracking" // How phones track you 
17:28 - GrapheneOS privacy & security features 
26:15 - GrapheneOS proxies 
27:32 - How to download apps on GrapheneOS phones 
32:56 - Addressing the issue with banking apps on GrapheneOS phones 
34:52 - Installing Google apps on GrapheneOS phones 
38:42 - Creating multiple user profiles with GrapheneOS 
41:30 - Addressing notification myths 
43:40 - GrapheneOS coming to Pixel 10 // GrapheneOS dedicated devices 
53:29 - GrapheneOS updates 
55:31 - Will GrapheneOS affect Pixel cameras? 
57:16 - Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement vs GrapheneOS 
01:01:14 - GrapheneOS: balance of privacy and security 
01:02:58 - Conclusion 

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#521: Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)

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Is your encryption safe? Cisco’s Vijoy Pandey reveals why distributed quantum computing is coming in 2-3 years, not 10. Learn about the 'Store Now, Harvest Later' threat and how quantum networking changes everything, including the security of your VPN. This paradigm shift is 100x bigger than the ChatGPT/AI moment, requiring the entire theory of computer science to be rewritten.

Join us as we dive into the imminent future of cybersecurity, qubits, and
entanglement technology from Cisco.

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05:08 - Post Quantum Cryptography
06:12 - Why Bother with Quantum Computing
07:57 - How Do We get to Practical Quantum Computing
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15:03 - Outro

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#522: Does Traditional Encryption End in 2027?

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This video is a deep dive with Jeetu Patel on why the real AI revolution is happening in infrastructure and networking, not just in GPUs or chatbots.
Jeetu explains that we are massively underestimating how much AI infrastructure the world will need. Power becomes the core constraint, GPUs are the core asset, and networking is the force multiplier that lets thousands of GPUs act as one system. He walks through how we went from models on a single GPU → 4–8 GPUs in a server → racks with hundreds of GPUs (like NVL-72 with 500+ GPUs) → clusters of racks, and now “scale across” between data centers when power and real estate are scattered across different regions.

The conversation then shifts to edge AI and Cisco Unified Edge: instead of doing all token generation in big data centers, some inference and token generation must move to the edge (branches, factories, hospitals, stadiums, stores) where data is created. Jeetu explains why edge devices need to be plug-and-play, remotely managed, and integrate compute, networking, security and observability in a single platform.

He also introduces the idea that AI is now constrained by three big bottlenecks:
• Infrastructure
• A trust deficit (people don’t trust AI yet)
• A data gap (models are mostly trained on human internet data, not on rich
machine data)

Jeetu explains how security becomes a prerequisite for productivity, not a trade-off, and describes Cisco’s work with Splunk, open-sourced time-series models, and machine data (logs, metrics, traces) to close the data gap by correlating machine data with human-generated data for better insights.
Globally, he talks about the “token generation race” – how every country now cares about having enough AI token generation capacity because it directly links to GDP and national security. He cites huge infrastructure build-outs with partners like G42 in the Middle East, at gigawatt and trillions-of-dollars scale.

Finally, Jeetu tackles the “AI will take my job” fear. He outlines three stages of
thinking:
1. “AI will take my job.”
2. “Someone who uses AI better will take my job.”
3. “Without AI, I won’t be able to do my job.”

His message to younger viewers: be excited, adopt AI as a companion, own your learning, and learn fast because AI compresses the time it takes to build skills.

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0:33 - "Networking is sexy" 
02:24 - Scale up, scale out and scale across explained 
04:47 - Cisco and Nvidia partnership 
05:55 - Cisco and G42 partnership // Addressing the AI bubble 
08:11 - New Cisco Unified Edge 
11:08 - Agentic AI in the future 
13:05 - Huge demand for networking 
13:57 - The three constraints 
16:38 - AI in the real world 
19:26 - How AI will take jobs away 
21:38 - Conclusion 

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#523: Why We Are MASSIVELY Underestimating AI Infrastructure Demand

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Cisco Unified Edge & The Future of Physical AI (w/ Kevin Wolenweber) Kevin Wolenweber reveals Cisco's new Unified Edge device and details the massive Nvidia partnership transforming data centers. We discuss the shift to "Physical AI," the terrifying security challenges of autonomous Agentic AI, and why "Gigawatt" scale clusters are changing the landscape for network engineers in 2025.  

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// MENU // 
0:00 - Coming up 
01:00 - New Cisco Unified Edge // What is it? 
03:28 - Use cases for the Cisco Unified Edge // Using AI models 
08:00 - More traffic and more bandwidth 
09:32 - Addressing security issues and solutions 
10:44 - What's new on the Cisco Unified Edge 
11:41 - Cisco and Nvidia partnership 
15:03 - Growing data centers 
18:24 - AI in the future 
20:03 - Security regarding AI agents 
23:08 - Networking and AI 
25:35 - Conclusion 

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#524: Why Cisco Built This AI Device

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Rob Braxman reveals the dangers of Windows Recall, Apple Intelligence, and client-side scanning. Discover why AI surveillance and TPM chips mark the end of privacy in 2025.

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0:00 - Coming up
01:20 - Proton Pass sponsored segment
02:54 - Digital IDs and security chips on devices
05:24 - Client-side scanning
12:40 - Client-side scanning with AI
22:05 - Embedded AI for client-side scanning
27:32 - Microsoft + Windows Recall
35:51 - Microsoft vs Apple // Cloud storage
39:31 - Moving to Linux & dual boot
44:27 - TPM & EKI explained
49:28 - Restrictions with digital IDs
54:15 - Linux phones
56:00 - Conclusion

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#525: Microsoft Recall: The Ultimate Privacy NIGHTMARE of 2025

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Chatbots are out; AI Agents are in. But are your networks ready for the massive traffic spikes, and is your data secure? In this interview from Cisco Partner Summit, we discuss the critical security flaws in the Model Context Protocol (MCP), why 99% of these servers are exposed, and how Cisco’s new MCP Scanner and Silicon One P200 chip aim to fix the infrastructure gap.

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0:00 - Coming up
0:35 - The 3 trends of AI: infrastructure constraints explained
03:29 - Data gap explained
04:14 - Trust deficit explained // AI safety
05:22 - Solutions for the trends // Open source projects
08:56 - Addressing the problem with AI agents
10:22 - Reassuring the AI skeptics
12:22 - Conclusion

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#526: Stop Building AI Chatbots (Do This Instead)

Can CML support multivendor topologies? Can you use other vendor VMs with CML? These are often asked questions. In this video I'm going to show you how to run a Windows 10 Virtual Machine (VM) in Cisco CML (VIRL 2). 

Be warned! There are a number of steps required to make this work, but it's definitely possible. 

This is Part 7 of my CML (VIRL 2) series showing you how to download, install and configure Cisco VIRL 2 (CML-P). The new version of Cisco VIRL allows you to create virtual Cisco networks using just your Web browser. You don't have to use a thick client or any other software - everything is included and everything is easy to use.

The new version of Cisco CML is one of your best options for CCNA,  CCNP and CCIE Labs. CML has multiple advantages over other platforms such as GNS3 or EVE-NG. CML supports an HTML5 web client and contains all the Cisco IOS images. You don't have to use a thick client like you do with GNS3. You don't have to follow a convoluted process to get Cisco images working like you do with EVE-NG. 

You don't have to try to find images as they are all included as part of your CML subscription and by simply mapping an ISO drive to your virtual machine you can immediately start using all Cisco IOS images in your topologies. Both EVE-NG and GNS3 require that you provide your own IOS images - typically they recommend that you buy a CML subscription anyway. That means that you are already paying for CML. 

CML (VIRL2) is also an official Cisco product - that means that you don't have to worry about any gray legal issues with regards to running Cisco IOS images on your laptop. This is an official Cisco product that is supported by Cisco. By paying your yearly subscription fee of $199, you can use Cisco IOS images such as IOSv, IOSvL2, ASAv, NX-OSv and others without any worries. CML (VIRL 2) has everything you need to get started.

Disadvantages include the requirement to license your installation. That however has been simplified dramatically from previous releases. There is also a 20 node limited in topologies. However, for most of us that is fine for a lot of labs.

Is VIRL better than GNS3 or EVE-NG? In many ways it is. But, all platforms have advantages and disadvantages. If you are studying for your ccie, you many prefer gns3 or eve-ng as they don't limit the number of devices in a topology like virl does. VIRL-PE limits you to 20 devices - so your topologies cannot be massive like they could with gns3 or eve ng. However, if you are studying for your ccna or ccnp, VIRL may be more than enough.

Cisco have made massive changes to their certification programs and it is fantastic to see the new version of VIRL in action. 

Menu:
Overview: 0:01
Steps: 4:17
Download Windows VMs: 7:00
Download and install QEMU: 8:32
Unzip Windows Zip file: 12:14
QEMU command to convert vmdk to qcow2: 13:17
Increase storage space on CML (VIRL 2): 15:23
Use scp to copy qcow2 file to CML: 20:45
Node and image definitions: 24:37
Add Windows VM to CML Topology: 28:57
Start Windows lab 30:15
Ping Windows from outside: 32:38
RDP (Remote Desktop to Windows VM): 33:50

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