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What happens when deep networking expertise meets low-level programming and a passion for invention? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Liang Chen, Senior Network Architect at Texas Children's Hospital and a true innovator in network performance and visibility. With more than 25 years of experience in networking, plus advanced expertise in programming languages like C and Assembly, Liang has built his own next-generation traffic analysis platform from the ground up—designed to provide real-time, packet-level visibility at massive scale.

What does it take to reinvent network visibility from the ground up? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, Bob sits down with Liang Chen, Senior Network Architect at Texas Children’s Hospital and creator of a next-generation network traffic analyzer built for real-time, packet-level visibility. Liang shares how he built a platform capable of analyzing traffic at up to 200Gbps with zero packet loss—unlocking deeper network forensics and faster troubleshooting in mission-critical environments.

Learn how Poller Checker helps identify polling issues, improve monitoring accuracy, and streamline SolarWinds troubleshooting. Discover key features, common use cases, and how to keep your environment running smoothly.

We're announcing the PagerDuty Rescue Program. PagerDuty worked. For a long time, it was the standard. But the world's changed, and PagerDuty hasn't. The single biggest reason teams stay on PagerDuty isn’t the product - it’s the pain of leaving. So, we’ve removed every barrier. You've wanted out for a while. Now, nothing is stopping you.

Cribl's Product Manager David Cavuto walks through how quick and easy it is to get data ingested into Cribl Search's lakehouse engine.