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Take a Network Break! This week we discuss AMD’s $1.9 billion bid for Pensando, why Juniper is partnering with Synopsys on silicon photonics, and a new application access control feature from Cato Networks. Security vendor Fortinet releases 7.2 of its core OS, IBM marches on with its mainframe business with the launch of z16, a group of investors sue IBM over alleged misclassification of mainframe revenue to other underperforming business units, and an article argues that Russia’s cyber-offensive in the war against Ukraine has been more far-reaching, effective, and intensive than suggested. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: ITProTV Start or grow your IT career with online IT training from ITProTV. Learn IT, pass your certs, and get a great job! Visit itpro.tv/NETWORKBREAK for 30% off all plans. Use promo code NETWORKBREAK at checkout. Tech Bytes: Nokia Stick around for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nokia about its new Edge Network Controller, a Kubernetes-based application that lets you configure switch hardware in edge cloud locations and support a NetOps environment for edge deployments. Show Links: AMD to buy cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 bln in data center push – Reuters AMD Expands Data Center Solutions Capabilities with Acquisition of Pensando – AMD AMD CEO Lisa Su breaks down acquisition of cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 billion – YouTube AMD: Pensando gives us better-than-AWS networking tech – The Register Synopsys and Juniper Networks Invest in New Company to Pursue Fast-Growing Silicon Photonics Market – Synopsys Is the Juniper/Synopsys Deal a Sea Change in Silicon Photonics for Networks? – CIMI Corporation’s Public Blog Cato Networks Introduces Risk-based Application Access Control Solving BYOD and Remote Work Security and Productivity Challenges – Cato Networks FortiOS 7.2: Enhancing the Only Converged Network Security Platform – Fortinet Blog The venerable mainframe rolls on at IBM with the release of the z16 – TechCrunch Announcing IBM z16: Real-time AI for Transaction Processing at Scale and Industry’s First Quantum-Safe System – IBM IBM deliberate...

Take a Network Break! There’s lot of new products this week including Aruba NetConductor, which is software meant to automate the creation of network fabrics using EVPN VXLAN. Aruba also announced new APs with on-board GPS for more precise location tracking. Arista is getting into branch networking with devices aimed at the commercial market including new switches and its first-ever firewall. Palo Alto Networks has announced a cloud-native version of its firewall for AWS. We also parse the meaning of “as-a-service.” We also discuss how rising power costs drove the British arm of Sungard into bankruptcy and what higher energy prices mean for cloud providers and their customers, examine HP’s $1.7 billion purchase of video camera and audio headset maker Poly, explore why Huawei is crowing about its EAL certification, and get updates on the cyber attack that took out satellite broadband services for many Viasat customers in northern Europe. Sponsor: Linode We’re sponsored today by Linode. Cut your cloud bills in half with Linode’s Linux virtual machines. Develop, deploy, and scale your applications faster and easier. Network Break listeners can get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. You can find all the details at linode.com/networkbreak. If it runs on Linux, it runs on Linode. Tech Bytes: Arelion Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Arelion, formerly known as Telia Carrier,  about how Arelion is driving the use of disaggregated optical networking gear and why it means faster rollout of new services and lower costs for customers. Show Links: Aruba ESP Delivers Cloud-native Services to Automate and Accelerate the Deployment and Protection of Edge-to-Cloud Networks – Aruba Networks Arista Introduces Edge as a Service with Cognitive Unified Edge Solution – Arista The New Edge as a Service – Arista Cloud NFGW: Managed Next-Generation Firewall Service for AWS – Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for AWS – FAQ – Palo Alto Networks Sungard UK goes into administration, blames it on energy crisis – DCD UK arm of Sungard Availability Services goes into administration – The Register Sungard bankruptcy: Private equity ‘vultures’ surrender Philly-area tech firm to hedge fund ‘bottom dwellers’ – Philadelphia Inquirer HP seeks to ride hybrid work boom with $1.7 billion Poly buyout – Reuters

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss how and why Aruba Networks is moving closer to HPE GreenLake and courting resellers with a new purchasing model for network gear, dig into problems at an OVH Cloud data center that hampered fire fighters’ efforts to put out a massive blaze, and discuss identity provider Okta’s response to a security incident that began with an outsourced employee. Cisco announces new capabilities across its Insight, UCS, and Hyperflex lines; and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger asks the US Senate for tens of billions of dollars to build chip-making facilities in three US states. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: ITProTV Start or grow your IT career with online IT training from ITPro TV. Learn IT, pass your certs, and get a great job  Visit itpro.tv/NETWORKBREAK for 30% off all plans. Use promo code NETWORKBREAK at checkout and save 30% off all plans. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stick around after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks. We talk about new SD-WAN integrations with Azure to streamline cloud access from branch locations. Show Links: Aruba Seeks To Entice Resellers With Modular ‘Network-In-A-Box’ Approach – Packet Pushers HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform Delivers Greater Choice and Simplicity with Unified Experience, New Cloud Services, and Expanded Partner Ecosystem – HPE OVHcloud fire report: SBG2 data center had wooden ceilings, no extinguisher, and no power cut-out – Data Centre Dynamics Okta says hundreds of companies impacted by security breach – TechCrunch DEV-0537 criminal actor targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction – Microsoft Security Blog Suspected Okta hackers arrested by British police – NBC Okta’s Investigation of the January 2022 Compromise – Okta Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$ – Okta Cisco Reveals New Cloud Software, Hardware and Operating Model to Accelerate Enterprises’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption – Cisco Systems Cisco accelerates h...

Take a Network Break! In this week’s IT news analysis we discuss Pluribus porting its network OS to NVIDIA DPUs, why Intel is pulling the plug on three FPGA cards in its portfolio, and the debut of a network operations startup that draws from multiple data sources to help NetOps teams troubleshoot problems faster. Ethernet switching revenues grew nearly 10% in 2021, Microsoft releases a free tool to scan for MikroTik routers being targeted by a botnet, and Google takes its domain registry service out of a seven-year beta and into general availability. Get links to all these stories below. Tech Bytes: Juniper Apstra Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Juniper Apstra where we talk about the latest features in Apstra’s intent-based networking platform. Show Links: Pluribus Unveils Unified Cloud Networking Vision, Industry-First Unified Cloud Fabric Solution and Collaboration with NVIDIA – Pluribus Networks Intel axes older FPGA cards, moves development to customers – The Register Acceleration Cards – Intel Selector.ai IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch and Router Trackers Show Strong Growth in Fourth Quarter of 2021 – IDC Microsoft creates tool to scan MikroTik routers for TrickBot infections – Bleeping Computer Uncovering Trickbot’s use of IoT devices in command-and-control infrastructure – Microsoft Find your online home with Google Domains, now out of beta – Google

Today’s Network Break starts with some listener FU (follow up) about the size of Starlink satellites. Then we dive into Google’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of security firm Mandiant, the 2.0 release of the DENT network OS, and record revenues posted by switch makers. We also discuss a new TCP reflection DDoS attack being discovered in the wild, how chipmaker NVIDIA plans to grow its revenue from software, and the intentional and unintentional fracturing of Russia from the global Internet. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Pluribus Pluribus delivers cloud networking solutions that dramatically reduce complexity and increase business velocity for enterprises and service providers in the distributed multi-cloud era. Mark your calendar for an important video broadcast event on March 16 to see how Pluribus and NVIDIA are revolutionizing cloud networking – for good. This is a can’t miss event! Sign up at pluribusnetworks.com/cloudnetworking. Sponsor: IP Fabric IP Fabric has put out a new report, the Future of Data Center Network Automation, which revealed that more than half of organizations that use manual data gathering processes feel it undermines their automation efforts. IP Fabric puts the right data in the hands of network engineers. You can get the full report at ipfabric.io/packetpushers. The first 10 to download the report will be sent a little something from the team at IP Fabric. Tech Bytes Netskope: Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes podcast with Netskope about the intersection of security and digital experience management. Show Links: Send your corrections, comments, and queries to packetpushers.net/fu Google to Acquire Mandiant – Mandiant DENT 2.0, Secure and Scalable Open Source Network Operating System Aimed at Small and Mid-Size Enterprises, Available Now – Linux Foundation Data Center Switch Sales Hit Record Levels in the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group MANRS – Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security – MANRS.org TCP Middlebox Reflection: Coming to a DDoS Near You – Akamai Heavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks – Packet Pushers Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification (PDF) – University of Maryland Why Nvidia sees a future in software and services: Recurring revenue – The Register

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss VMware enhancing its Carbon Black software with container runtime security, Google tells employees to return to the office starting April 4, and Broadcom takes in $7.7 billion in revenue its first quarter of 2022. Toyota shut down auto production for a day after a supplier got hit by malware, satellite broadband provider Viasat comes under cyber attack, and Cisco touts its Talos security platform as its supports Ukraine. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks We’re sponsored today by Palo Alto Networks. To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Sponsor: IT Pro TV Start or grow your IT career with online IT training from I-T Pro T-V. Learn IT, pass your certs, and get a great job  Visit itpro.tv/NETWORKBREAK for 30% off all plans. Use promo code NETWORKBREAK at checkout and save 30% off all plans. Tech Bytes: Aruba Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation where we talk with a credit union about how it deployed SD-WAN and branch networking using Aruba ESP. Aruba is our sponsor. Show Links: VMware Pioneers Modern Security for Modern Applications from Development to Production – VMware Google says its workers will have to be back in the office April 4 – Washington Post Google tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in April – CNBC Broadcom Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Results and Quarterly Dividends – Broadcom Broadcom says enterprise spending ‘on fire,’ forecasts upbeat revenue – Reuters Toyota Japan shutters 14 plants after probable cyberattack – The Register Toyota to restart Japan production after cyberattack on supplier – Reuters Viasat’s Ka-SAT experiencing service interruptions – PaxEx.Aero Satellite giant Viasat probes suspected broadband cyberattack amid Russia fears – Sky News SpaceX Starlink Service in Ukraine Is an Important Government Asset – Circle ID

Take a Network Break! This week we examine how Arista is turning a campus switch into a sensor for network detection and response, a new PCIe card from Mikrotik running router software, and a Dell/Marvell partnership on hardware acceleration for Open RAN gear. HPE taps startup Ayar Labs for silicon photonics, HPE jumps into the private 5G market with a new offering, and Cloudflare acquires an anti-phishing security startup to help secure its email service. Cisco and Dell report financial results, and an uptick in solar flare activity prompts a history lesson about the Carrington Event–a massive solar eruption that took down telegraph operations in 1859. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto We’re sponsored today by Palo Alto Networks. To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Sponsor: Pluribus This episode is also sponsored in part byu Pluribus Networks. Pluribus invites you to attend a special video broadcast on March 16, 2022 to learn how they are delivering cloud networking. Sign up at pluribusnetworks.com/cloudnetworking. Tech Bytes: Fortinet: Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Fortinet about FortiGuard Labs‘ threat intelligence service, which analyzes billions of global security events daily to provide actionable information for network and security teams. Show Links: Arista Integrates Threat Detection and Response into the Cognitive Campus – Arista The Migration from Network Security to Secure Networks – Arista CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe – Mikrotik Dell Technologies Telecom Solutions Simplify and Accelerate Modern, Open Network Deployments – PR Newswire Accelerating Open RAN Performance – Dell HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect – The Next Platform Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Ayar Labs announce strategic collaboration and investment to develop next-generation data center architectures and networking with optical I/O – HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Extends Leadership in Enterprise Connectivity With Private 5G Offering – ...

Take a Network Break! We start with three acquisitions: Juniper buys WiteSand for Network Access Control (NAC), Intel acquires Tower Semiconductor to boost to its foundry business, and Akamai buys Linode to bring IaaS into its portfolio. Gigamon expands its Network Detection and Response (NDR) service by adding a year of data retention and playbooks to streamline investigations, Aviatrix adds Network Behavioral Analytics to its NaaS offering, and the Semiconductor Industry Association reports a record-breaking 1.15 trillion semicondcutors were shipped in 2021. Arista posts big gains in its quarterly and full-year financial results, Cisco makes a bid for SolarWinds, and Cisco quietly congratulates itself for having helped secure the Superbowl. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at www.saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Tech Bytes: DriveNets Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes podcast with sponsor DriveNets. We talk about how your organization can adopt a hyperscale model in your network to do things like improve TCO, scale out capabilities and services, and get supply chain diversity. Show Links: US Agencies Say Russian Hackers Compromised Defense Contractors – WIRED Juniper Networks Announces Acquisition of WiteSand – Juniper Networks A Real NAC for AIOps – Juniper Networks Blogs Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 Billion – Intel Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Applications – Akamai Linode and Akamai – Linode Gigamon Introduces Playbooks, Plus A Full Year Of Data Retention, To Its NDR Service – Packet Pushers Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT 365-Day Data Retention Levels the Playing Field Against Adversaries’ Dwell Time Advantage – Gigamon Aviatrix Enhances Secure Cloud Networking with Network Behavior Analytics – Aviatrix Global Semiconductor Sales, Units Shipped Reach All-Time Highs in 2021 as Industry Ramps Up Production Amid Shortage...

Take a Network Break! This week we cover Cisco’s SD-WAN getting users to cloud services such as Webex and Microsoft 365 faster; as well as new capabilities in Pluribus’s Netvisor network OS including container visibility, a virtual packet broker, and flow tracking. Contamination at chip fabs affects flash memory production, plans are afoot for a 18,000 kilometer submarine cable to stretch from Singapore to the United States, and Arm begins plans to go public. Apple and Broadcom get a reprieve from a massive financial judgement for patent violations, and Starlink loses approximately forty satellites due to a geomagnetic storm. Sponsor: Nokia Nokia’s SR-Linux network OS and Fabric Services System enable data center automation, observability, and software-defined operations—the essential building blocks for webscalers that want to build more consumable data center services. Find out more at nokia.ly/consumable-networks. Show Links: Cisco SD-WAN Expands Microsoft 365 Integration with Informed Network Routing for Microsoft Teams and SharePoint – Cisco System Boost Hybrid Workforce Productivity with Cisco SD-WAN and Webex – Cisco Cisco Brings Webex Collaboration to SD-WAN Cloud Program – The New Stack Pluribus Delivers Unprecedented Network Visibility for Cloud-Native Applications; Unveils Support for 400GbE Networking – Pluribus Networks Pluribus Netvisor ONE R7 Feature Spotlight: Kubernetes-aware Fabric with the KubeTracker™ Fabric Service – Pluribus Networks Contamination at WDC/Kioxia JV Fabs – The Memory Guy Indonesia’s new mega-telco to build 18,000km submarine cable to the US  – The Register SubTel Submarine Cable Map – Submarine Telecoms Forum Nvidia calls off its efforts to acquire Arm – TechCrunch Termination of Agreement to Sell All Shares in Subsidiary Arm and Preparation for Arm Public Offering (PDF) – SoftBank The Arm Wrestle – Creative Strategies Apple, Broadcom allowed to press Ctrl-Z on billion-dollar Wi-Fi patent payout to Caltech – The Register Geom...

Take a Network Break! This week’s tech news includes new cloud-delivered security services from Juniper Networks and Cato Networks, new firewall hardware from Fortinet, and prognostications on the campus switch market. Cisco teases a private 5G service, Citrix gets acquired by a pair of private equity firms for $16.5 billion, and MariaDB goes public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). Sponsor: DataDog This episode of Network Break is sponsored by Datadog, the SaaS monitoring and security platform enabling full-stack observability for developers, IT operations, security and business teams in the cloud age. Learn more about Datadog by signing up for a free 2-week trial at datadoghq.com/networkbreak and you will also receive a free t-shirt! Tech Bytes: AppNeta Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about how to get end-to-end observability into cloud-delivered security, including cloud access security brokers and SASE. Our sponsor is AppNeta. Show Links: Juniper Networks Announces Juniper Secure Edge, a Cloud-Delivered Security Solution Managed by Security Director Cloud, as Next Step in SASE Journey – Juniper Networks Secure Edge – Juniper Networks Cato Networks Delivers Instant Visibility and Control of Cloud Application Data Risk – Cato Networks Cato Networks Adds A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) For App Visibility And Control – Packet Pushers New FortiGate 3000F Series Secures Digital Acceleration for Hybrid IT – Fortinet Private 5G Delivered on Your Terms – Cisco Cisco Private 5G – Cisco Citrix to Be Acquired by Affiliates of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital for $16.5 Billion – Citrix Campus Switch Market Returns to Growth Quicker Than Expected, $100B between 2021 and 2026, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation – MariaDB

Take a Network Break! This week we begin with follow-up from last week’s episode, and then dive into news. We start with NVIDIA’s hope to acquire Arm, which is running into serious interference from regulators concerned about the implications for market competition. Then we discuss two new generations of custom router silicon from Juniper Networks, and examine a new service from LiveAction that looks for potential security problems in encrypted traffic–without the need to decrypt packets. Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks report financial results, and the United Kingdom floats the idea of a professional registry for security professionals. See all the links below. And if you have corrections, comments, or additional info, hit us up at our follow-up link. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at www.saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Tech Bytes: Aviatrix Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation on  network security at scale. That is, in a cloud environment, how can you build security capabilities and features into the network while also being able to keep up with security policies, operations, compliance, and so on. Our sponsor is Aviatrix, which provides multi-cloud networking software for public clouds. Show Links: Follow Up – Packet Pushers NVIDIA – Arm Deal Falling Through? – Bloomberg Choosing a Silicon Architecture: It’s All About Finding the Right Tool for the Job – Juniper Networks Juniper Introduces New Trio 6-based MX Portfolio – Juniper Networks LiveAction Launches ThreatEye NV, a Network Detection and Response Platform That Delivers Complete Encrypted Traffic Analysis and Visibility – LiveAction Juniper Networks Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results – Juniper Networks Extreme Networks Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Results – Extreme Networks Doctor-style register planned for UK infosec professionals – The Register

Take a Network Break! This week we examine the drivers behind Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Juniper integrates its SD-WAN portfolio with Mist Cloud, and Wi-Fi 7 emerges on the horizon. Cisco announces a new Catalyst switch for industrial use cases, Telia Carrier rebrands to something more generic and forgettable, and JP Morgan Chase discloses tidbits about its IT strategy. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at www.saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we’re going to talk about how a SASE architecture and a next-generation CASB, or Cloud Access Security Broker, can help security teams manage SaaS risks. Show Links: Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard – Axios Microsoft to Buy Gaming Giant Activision for $68.7 Billion – Futuriom Juniper Differentiates With New AI-Driven SD-WAN Capabilities, Making the WAN Edge Even Easier to Deploy, Manage and Secure – Juniper Networks Juniper Networks’ SD-WAN Can Now Be Operated Via Mist Cloud – Packet Pushers Wi-Fi 7 hardware demos herald next-gen wireless networking – Ars Technica IEEE 802.11be – Wikipedia Cisco Expands Enterprise-Grade Switching Capabilities into Industrial Networks to Modernize and Secure Critical Infrastructure – Cisco Systems Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Data Sheet – Cisco Systems Telia Carrier Rebrands as Arelion – PR Newswire Telia Company reaches agreement to sell its carrier operation to Polhem Infra and proposes to reinstate the original dividend for 2019 – Telia Company JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon on Q4 2021 Results – Earnings Call Tra...

This week on Network Break we discuss why Salesforce is requiring multi-factor authentication from customers starting in February 2022, examine an SFP module that comes with a tiny computer running Linux, and highlight the vast gap between cloud hype and cloud spending compared to traditional IT gear. SD-WAN consolidation continues as a fiber providers snaps up a managed SD-WAN service, the FAA requires buffers zones around 50 US airports due to concerns about aircraft interference from C-band 5G, MWC Barcelona will be held in person this February, and a homeowner gets an unpleasant intrusion of telecom fiber. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia Network Break is sponsored in part by Nokia. Find out how Nokia’s SR-Linux operating system can help you build a DC fabric with EVPN. Check out a recent Tech Bytes episode we recorded with Nokia on the subject. You can listen by going to nokia.ly/evpn. Tech Bytes: Netskope Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes podcast conversation with sponsor Netskope about security clouds that offer capabilities including firewalling, traffic inspection, Web gateways, and more. We explore why these clouds aren’t all the same, and why the architecture under the hood, including networking, makes a difference. For more information, go to netskope.com/packetpushers. Show Links: Salesforce Multi-Factor Authentication FAQ – Salesforce Check That Your Implementation Satisfies the MFA Requirement – Salesforce Ghost in the ethernet optic – Benjojo Cloud numbers don’t add up – InfoWorld Computing and data infrastructure in ’22 – Kleiner Perkins Zayo Group Strengthens Edge and SD-WAN Leadership with Acquisition of QOS Networks – Business Wire FAA Statements on 5G – Federal Aviation Administration 50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones – The Register Verizon 5G Is Changing January 19: What You Need to Know – PC Magazine MWC22 Barcelona: Reconnecting an Industry and Community – MWC Barcelona GSMA: MWC Barcelona Must Go On, COVID Be Damned – SDX Central Attendance at CES 2022 conference plummets amid COVID-19 surge –...

Take a Network Break! This week we examine Oracle’s purchase of network assurance vendor Federos, discuss why Cisco has added a service mesh manager to its Intersight Kubernetes service, and explore why some users are frustrated with a crypto-miner in NortonLifelock’s anti-virus software. Googe Cloud acquires the security analytics and response startup Siemplify. A fire at a manufacturing plant that makes lithography equipment essential to semiconductor production adds to worries about chip shortages. EnGenius announces a new Wi-Fi 6E AP for small and medium-size businesses. Starlink grapples with a slowdown in new customers of its space-based broadband service. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks To find out what’s next in SASE, sign up to watch Palo Alto Networks SASE Converge 2021, an on-demand webinar. You’ll hear from leading voices in networking and security, get details on the impact of SASE technology, and more. Sign up at www.saseconverge.paloaltonetworks.com. Tech Byte: Aruba Networks After the news we have a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Aruba Networks on the need for policy-based, rather than topology-based networking in our new hybrid world. Find out more at www.arubanetworks.com. Show Links: Oracle Acquires Federos: Empowering service providers with AI-optimized service and network assurance, analytics, and automated orchestration – Oracle Assuring the Performance of Critical Networks and Services – Federos Cisco Service Mesh Manager Now Available on Cisco Intersight! – Cisco Remember Norton 360’s bundled cryptominer? Irritated folk realise Ethereum app is tricky to delete – The Register FAQ: Norton Crypto – Norton Community Raising the bar in Security Operations: Google Acquires Siemplify – Google Startup Radar: Siemplify Takes Threat Analysis Beyond SIEM Correlation – Packet Pushers Fire incident at ASML Berlin – ASML ASML Keeps Part of Berlin Manufacturing Site Shut After Fire – Bloomberg EnGenius Launches First Wi-Fi 6E Access Point for SMB Market – PR Newswire SpaceX: Starlink internet service has more than 145,000 users so far – CNBC

Take a Network Break! This week we examine whether Broadcom’s acquisition of AppNeta, which offers SaaS-based digital experience monitoring, is a good fit. We look at new features in the SONiC network OS including a new way to support dual ToR switches, and dive into a new firewall service available from Cloudflare. Aryaka announces an integrated managed SD-WAN and SASE offering along with a new managed WAN tier, Aruba positions its wireless APs to give home users and small offices a similar security and performance experience as on campus, the SD-WAN market grew 45% in Q3, and the German government rules that a teleworker who tripped and hurt himself walking from his bed to his home office is entitled to workplace insurance. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Juniper Apstra We’re sponsored today by Juniper Networks’ Apstra. Apstra’s Intent-Based solution simplifies the deployment, operations and management of your Data Center network from Day0 through Day2. It delivers automation and continuous validation of your data center network in multi-vendor environments. The result is savings on downstream costs and exponentially more value from your network investments. Get more details at juniper.net/packetpushers/apstra. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stick around after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation about how Palo Alto Networks is integrating ChatOps into its SD-WAN platform that lets you get SD-WAN performance and operational information via chat apps such as Microsoft Teams. Show Links: Broadcom Acquires AppNeta to Bolster Network Performance Monitoring Across Internet and Hybrid Cloud-based Applications – Broadcom NetOps Product Brief  – Broadcom Business-Critical Enterprise Software – Broadcom Software SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation – Microsoft Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One – Cloudflare Aryaka Announces “All-in-One” SD-WAN and SASE Offerings for the Cloud-First Enterprise and Hybrid Workplace Deployments – Aryaka New Aruba EdgeConnect Microbranch Solution Modernizes the Home/Small Office Experience for Hybrid Workplaces – Aruba Networks SD-WAN Market Surged 45 Percent to a Record Level in 3Q 2021, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules – The Guardian