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This is part 2 of our series on wireless with APJC SE Director Grant Shelley from Hamina Wireless. This is not a sponsored episode, just three engineers discussing the complexities of modern day wireless networking and in Part 2 we talk about how Hamina is leveraging AI to deliver some amazing technology that boosts how businesses can design, deliver and track the performance of their wifi.

Today we're joined by SE Director Grant Shelley from Hamina Wireless - this is not a sponsored episode, its just part 1 of three engineers kicking back discussing where we've come from, where we're going and the complexities coming our way in delivering good wireless networking.

Fred and Vlad are back in business after some time off over Christmas and New Years.Hear from us about where we are at, how we plan to make a few guest-less episodes where we give our take on humanity.We speak briefly too about the workplace as an introduction to the series too. Enjoy and leave us a comment about what you'd like our take on!

We are back after a long hiatus!Get an insider's perspective of what goes on inside a Cisco Live event. This episode, Vlad and Fred tells you about what they were up to during the events of Cisco Live APJC 2025 in Melbourne. They touched on what went down during the keynote session, and also shared their thoughts on the event itself including the learnings they had walking around the World of Solutions.Think of this a special because of a video recording that came with this episode, make sure to catch that on Packet Party's YouTube channel!

Fred and Vlad sit down with Umu and discuss her career journey, from Dreamweaver to DR, we talk about how she transitioned to Cybersecurity and Sales and what kept her going along the way, what helped her transition roles too.

SASE, SSE, SDWAN, VPN, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, etc etc. The list of acronyms goes on and on. Fred and Vlad spend time with Umu breaking down where it came from, what it all means and most importantly, why you should care about a proper User Protection strategy.

30 years of being in tech, from Novell to Win3.1, NT to IOS, patch panels, PLCs, the early days of IoT and Token Ring. Scott Williamson has seen it all. He spends time walking us through his career journey, the skills that built along the way that kept him going as technologies came and went and he transitioned through roles. Interested in learning how he eventually ended up in Sales from operational roles? It's all about knowing how to sell the upgrades to your internal stakeholders - more insight in the show!

Join Fred and Vlad as they catch up with Scott Williamson from ThousandEyes to discuss what is 'Digital Experience Monitoring' and ultimately, why you as an IT professional or business leader should care. In this day and age, so much is reliant on SaaS and the cloud, hybrid work enables people to access applications from anywhere but whether that connectivity is reliable or not and affects peoples productivity - this is where Digital Experience Monitoring comes in.

Fred and Vlad give us their hot takes on Cloud Management and why its necessary; we go back in time discussing the pain of managing networks via CLI, how the CCNA/P used to look and how its changed dramatically; we also discuss the business reasons why for at least us, Cloud Management makes predominant sense for many general use cases.

This is our origin story, we introduce ourselves and why we're starting this podcast, what we're hoping to achieve and how we plan to connect with you.