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It’s the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco’s $500 million acquisition of Espagon, which monitors container-based and serverless applications. We also drill into Intel’s announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) designed to offload network and storage functions from the CPU. Cloudflare shares how it thwarted the largest DDoS attack it’s seen to date, and we parse the tea leaves of Cisco’s Q4 financial results. Greg Ferro is joined by guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research. You can hear more from Johna on the Heavy Strategy podcast. Sponsor: Unimus Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration Management solution that’s fast to deploy and easy to use. Designed specifically to make it easier for you to adopt network automation easier, Unimus takes under 15 minutes to deploy. You can get a free, no obligation Unlimited License trial, or schedule a short technical demo. Find out more at unimus.net/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Kentik Stick around for a Tech Bytes conversation about network observability. In particular, we get into the automation of performance testing and synthetic transactions for network monitoring. Our sponsor is Kentik and our guest is Avi Freedman, CEO and co-founder of Kentik. Show Links: Cisco Advances Full-Stack Observability Strategy with Intent to Acquire Epsagon – Cisco Blogs Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M – TechCrunch IPU and Mt. Evans – Architecture Day 2021 – Intel Technology – YouTube Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the largest ever reported – Cloudflare Tech Bytes: DDOS and State Exhaustion With NETSCOUT – Packet Pushers Cisco Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2021 Earnings – Cisco Systems

The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell’oro pitches that Education and Government markets will be spending big on WiFi6E – we aren’t so sure that campus spending will be big just some spending but Dell’oro told us that government economic stimulus is the driver. Most will focus on distributed work. Huawei posted 29% revenue reduction as the trade sanctions impact their overall business. A reminder that political solutions are slow if you have to make plans. And in space networking, SpaceX acquires pico-satellite company Swarm for IOT networking. Sponsor:  Nokia This week’s show is sponsored in part by Nokia. Did you know that Apple is using Nokia’s Data Center Fabric solution? If you want to know more, and learn about Nokia SR Linux and Fabric Services Platform for yourself, check out nokia.com/networks/dc-fabric Tech Bytes: NetScout Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes podcast where we look at how stateful firewalls and other devices are vulnerable to DDoS due to TCP state exhaustion attacks. Our sponsor is Netscout, we walk through how the attack works, and what can be done to mitigate it. Show Links: Juniper and ‘k2io’: https://www.k2io.com/juniper-and-k2-expand-partnership-for-cloud-workload-protection/ Link: – Extreme Networks – https://www.extremenetworks.com/whatsthedeal/ Link: Extreme announces intent to acquire Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN business – Extreme Networks – https://www.extremenetworks.com/extreme-networks-blog/extreme-announces-intent-to-acquire-infovistas-ipanema-sd-wan-business/ https://www.infovista.com/ipanema-sd-wan Link: Infovista acquires Empirix, extending its 5G Network Lifecycle Automation leadership | Infovista – https://www.infovista.com/press-release/infovista-acquires-empirix Link: Extreme Networks To Buy Ipanema SD-WAN For $73M – CRN https://www.crn.com/news/networking/extreme-networks-to-buy-ipanema-sd-wan-for-73m Link: 5-Year Forecast: WLAN Market, In the Right Place at the Right Time – Dell’Oro Group https://www.delloro.com/5-year-forecast-wlan-market-in-the-right-place-at-the-right-time/ Link: Huawei revenue drops 29% as its consumer growth engine stutters | Nasdaq – https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/huawei-revenue-drops-29-as-its-consumer-growth-engine-stutters-2021-08-06 Link: Git password authentication is shutting down | GitHub Changelog – https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-12-git-password-authentication-is-shutting-down/ Token authentication requirements for Git operations – GitHub https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/#what-you-need-to-do-today Link: Our Technology – How Swarm works and what makes us unique | Swarm – https://swarm.

Take a Network Break! Marvell buys Innovium and its high-end ASICs for $1.1 billion to challange Broadcom and others in the Ethernet market, Juniper Networks debuts agent software designed to protect applications from software exploits, and IDC predicts big growth for AWS Outposts and other on-prem infrastructure tied to public clouds. Cisco will experiment with remote and distributed work as employees voice a desire to not go back to the office five days a week, Amazon delays in-office work until January 2022, and Arista announces quarterly earnings while highlighting a very constrained supply chain. Get links to these stories below. Sponsor: Unimus We’re sponsored by Unimus, a Network Automation and Configuration Management solution that’s fast to deploy and easy to use. Designed specifically to make it easier for you to adopt network automation easier, Unimus takes under 15 minutes to deploy. You can get a free, no obligation Unlimited License trial, or schedule a short technical demo. Find out more at unimus.net/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Aruba After the news we talk with a pharmaceutical distribution company about their rollout of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN to boost uptime for fulfillment services, improve delivery services, and create a full-mesh SD-WAN to make it easier for warehouses and offices to share data. Show Links: Marvell to Acquire Innovium – Accelerates Cloud Growth with Expanded Ethernet Switching Portfolio – PR Newswire Marvell Tech to acquire Innovium for $1.1 bln as it courts more cloud customers – Reuters Marvell Acquiring Innovium for High-End Switch ASIC – Serve The Home Marvell to acquire Innovium for $1.1 Billion – Innovium Connecting and Protecting Applications within a Zero Trust Data Center Architecture with Juniper Cloud Workload Protection – Juniper Networks New Juniper Software Aims To Protect Applications Against Exploitable Vulnerabilities – Packet Pushers Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2019–2025: Market Trends and Outlook – IDC Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick – The Next Platform The great hybrid experiment – Cisco

This week’s Network Break analyzes Zoom’s $14.7 billion purchase of Five9 and its cloud-based contact center platform, new Wi-Fi 6E APs from Extreme, and the risks of Amazon Echo Dots where sensitive data can be recovered even after a factory reset. We also discuss potential ramifications of a ruling against a DNS provider regarding potential copyright violations, what the availability of Cisco gear on Amazon means for resellers, and whether stunning financial returns for consumer tech companies will raise similar expectations for IT vendors–which means higher prices for you. Speaking of financial results, it was a very good quarter for many tech companies. We look at the numbers for F5 Networks, Fortinet, A10 Networks, Juniper Networks, and Extreme Networks. Last but not least, Cloudflare will give developers the option to run workloads on infrastructure powered by renewable energy–but will developers use it? Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Aruba Networks Stay tuned after the news for our sponsored Tech Bytes conversation on how to get visibility into, and context for, the IoT devices connecting to your network. We’ll talk with Aruba Networks about how its Edge Services Platform delivers hyperawareness of your IoT environment. Show Links: Zoom To Acquire Five9 – Zoom Zoom buys Five9 in $14.7 billion deal to prepare for a post-pandemic world – CNN Extreme Networks First in the Industry to Ship Enterprise Grade Wi-Fi 6E Solution – Extreme Networks Amazon echo dot or the reverberating secrets of IoT devices – ACM Amazon Echo Dots Store a Wealth of Data—Even After a Reset – Wired DNSFilter CEO Responds to Quad9 Injunction: “DNS resolvers should not police the internet for copyright violations” – DNSFilter Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status – Quad9 DNS Provider Hit With Outrageous Blocking Order – Is Your Provider Next? – EFF Amazon.in: Cisco – Amazon Amazon.co.uk: Cisco – Amazon

Take a Network Break! We begin with a couple of follow-ups (and you can send us your own FU here), and then dive into Ericsson’s $8.5 billion deal to provide 5G gear to Verizon, discuss why Microsoft bought identity and entitlement management company CloudKnox (hint: it’s about cloud), and dig into research on flexible microprocessors and their potential impact on medical devices and packaging. An Akamai DNS update makes a whole bunch of Web sites unavailable, AWS cuts off access to its CloudFront service to NSO Group over spyware concerns, and Intel reports flat revenues for the second quarter of 2021. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Fortinet Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes conversation with sponsor Fortinet. We talk to a customer in the education sector who’s using multiple Fortinet products including firewalls, the firewall analyzer, end point security and Fortinet’s Security Fabric. Show Links: Inside Ericsson’s $8.3-Billion Deal with Verizon for 5G – Futuriom Ericsson and Verizon ink landmark multi-year $8.3 Billion 5G deal – Ericsson Samsung Electronics wins $6.6 billion Verizon order for network equipment – Reuters Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband, Explained – Verizon Microsoft’s Cyber Startup Spending Spree Continues with CloudKnox Acquisition – Tech Crunch Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management – Microsoft Realizing the Full Potential of the Internet of Things – Research Articles – Arm Research FlexLogIC – PragmatIC Websites back up after brief global outage linked to Akamai – Reuters Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and more went down in massive internet outage – The Verge

Take a Network Break! SolarWinds is back in the hot seat as Microsoft researchers discover an active exploit against SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer products. Meanwhile, SonicWall warns customers that a ransomware exploit is targeting end-of-life software on some of its products. NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks underwhelm with an announcement about using NVIDIA’s Bluefield-2 DPU to offload some network traffic from virtual instances of Palo Alto’s firewall software. Greg opines on the effects of inflation for IT project management, and Amazon snaps up a team of Facebook engineers that were working on a now-defunct satellite broadband project. Last but not least, Japanese bureaucrats who refuse to relinquish their fax machines are stymieing the government’s digital transformation. Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: AppNeta Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta. As organizations figure out how to make distributed work a more permanent feature, IT needs to be prepared to support both remote and on-prem workers for the foreseeable future. We talk with AppNeta about instrumenting application performance management to support a hybrid work environment. Show Links: Serv-U Remote Memory Escape Vulnerability – SolarWinds SolarWinds 0-day gave Chinese hackers privileged access to customer servers – Ars Technica Urgent Security Notice: Critical Risk to Unpatched End-of-Life SRA & SMA 8.x Remote Access Devices – SonicWall NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks Boost Cyber Defenses with DPU Acceleration – NVIDIA Facebook’s satellite internet team joins Amazon – The Verge Japanese fax fans rally to defence of much-maligned machine – The Guardian Hanko Stamp – Seal (East Asia) – Wikipedia

It’s time for a Network Break! This week we examine the fallout of the Kaseya breach that affected dozens of MSPs and many hundreds of customers, and discuss HPE’s interests in Zerto and Ampool, two acquisitions that extend the value of HPE’s Greenlake platform. Fortinet goes after software developers with its acquisition of Sken.ai, the US Federal Trade Commission goes after Broadcom with allegations of monpolistic practices in the set-top box and broadband modem business, the US Defense Department starts over on its multi-billion cloud contract bid, and a court tells Netflix it has to pay network usage fees to a South Korean Internet provider. Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Netskope We talk with Netskope about why IT can’t just take the office network out of mothballs and expect everything to be fine when employees show up. Guest Hansang Bae shares a punch list of tasks you might want to complete before your end users get back to the office. Show Links: FU: Fastcom Deploys Extreme Fabric to Power Business Growth and Deliver Differentiated Services – Extreme Networks News: Update Regarding VSA Security Incident – Kaseya Rapid Response: Mass MSP Ransomware Incident – Huntress The Kaseya Ransomware Attack Is a Really Big Deal – Lawfare Why some cyber criminals are ditching bitcoin for a cryptocurrency called monero – CNBC Fake Kaseya VSA Security Update Drops Cobalt Strike – Threatpost Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expands HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform with Acquisition of Zerto, a Leader in Cloud Data Management and Protection – Zerto HPE acquires Ampool to accelerate hybrid analytics for customers – HPE Ampool – Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding – CrunchBase Apache Geode — Performance is key. Consistency is a must. – Apache.org Fortinet Acquires Application Security Innovator Sken.ai to Accelerate DevSecOps – Fortinet

Take a Network Break! We start with some FU (Follow Up) from previous episodes, and then dive into the latest news. Marvell has announced a new Data Processing Unit (DPU)/SmartNIC to tackle security, networking, and storage workloads; the startup WiteSand emerges from stealth with a mission to manage multi-vendor campus networks and provide cloud-based NAC; and Forward Networks adds security capabilities to its network verification platform. A Windows print spooler vulnerability needs to be patched because it could allow the hostile takeover of your Active Directory domain controllers, SD-WAN and SASE provider Versa Networks raises $84 million to tell the world about SASE, and we conclude with a conversation about the distributed work debate. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Securely enable remote workforce with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, cloud-delivered security that  protects all user and application traffic while ensuring an exceptional user experience. Get a virtual test drive at paloaltonetworks.com/resources/test-drives. Show Links: Not-So-Solid State: SSD Makers Swap Parts Without Telling Us – Tom’s Hardware Marvell Extends OCTEON Leadership with Industry’s First 5nm DPUs – Marvell WiteSand Emerges From Stealth – WiteSand.io Forward Networks Unveils New Features To Verify And Validate Zero Trust Architectures – Forward Networks Forward Networks Adds Security Assurance To Its Network Verification Software. Is The Company Intent On A Makeover? – Packet Pushers Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system on your domain controller – The Register Versa Networks Secures $84M in Series D Funding to Accelerate SASE Growth – Versa Networks Just 2% of workers at Silicon Valley’s VMware showed up for the first day of in-person work – SF Gate Will businesses continue to work from home? – World Economic Forum Introducing new tools to help you work from anywhere – Slack COVID-19 and the employee experience – McKinsey

Take a Network Break! This week we cover a raft of news from HPE’s Discover event. HPE is barreling ahead with its GreenLake hybrid cloud strategy by adding new features including a new cloud optimization platform called Lighthouse, a secure attestation plan dubbed Project Aurora, and an option to get CPU resources on a pay-by-use consumption model. Aruba Networks announced products including new switches, the addition of authentication capabilities to Aruba Central, and an IoT dashboard in Central. Microsoft announces Windows 11 with native Teams included, and takes a shot at Apple’s business model for in-app purchases. The US government says old-school security techniques could have thwarted leaks from SolarWinds’ compromised software, and a strange iOS bug can disable your iPhone’s Wi-Fi. VMware announces a fix for serious vulnerability in its Carbon Black security software, and Intel snaps up Stanford professor and influential startup founder Nick McKeown to run its Network and Edge group. Many thanks to guest analyst Tom Hollingsworth, who stepped in while Greg was away. Tom writes the excellent “The Networking Nerd” blog. He’s also an event lead for Tech Field Day and co-host of the GestaltIT Rundown podcast. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Securely enable remote workforce with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, cloud-delivered security that  protects all user and application traffic while ensuring an exceptional user experience. Get a virtual test drive at paloaltonetworks.com/resources/test-drives. Tech Bytes: Telia Carrier After the news we talk with sponsor Telia Carrier about their global IP backbone and the IP services it has available in the United States. We also dig into how Telia is upgrading its network for 400Gig. Show Links: Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces breakthrough HPE GreenLake cloud platform innovations spanning silicon, software and security to power edge-to-cloud era – HPE HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On Greenlake Services – The Next Platform HPE Ezmeral Container Platform technical white paper – HPE Introducing Project Aurora: Enabling zero-trust security architectures from edge to cloud – HPE Aruba ESP Improves Network Agility for Organizations Adapting to New Business Realities – Aruba Microsoft just unveiled Windows 11: Here’s everything it announced – C...

Take a Network Break! We start with an FU regarding building silicon fabs in the Arizona desert, then jump into the newly minted IEEE 802.3cu standard that makes possible 100G and 400G speeds per wavelength on single-mode optical fiber. We also discuss a new security offering from Gigamon that combines SaaS-based NDR with on-call assistance from security experts. Speaking of security, we cover a raft of new SASE service offerings being launched US service providers, and then discuss why IBM spent $1.5 billion for resource-optimization vendor Turbonomic. A news article raises the specter of counterfeit semiconductors sneaking into the supply chain, and data center switch revenues jumped 14% for the first quarter of 2021. Last but not least, we add the phrase “turbidity currents” to our vocabulary in discussing an underwater avalanche that knocked out a pair of submarine telecom cables. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Securely enable remote workforce with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, cloud-delivered security that  protects all user and application traffic while ensuring an exceptional user experience. Get a virtual test drive at paloaltonetworks.com/resources/test-drives. Tech Byte: Fortinet Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Fortinet. We’ll here from Fortinet customer Batteries Plus about an SD-WAN and SD-Branch deployment with Foritnet. Show Links: Ethernet Alliance Touts Range of Simultaneous Advances for Global High-Speed Ethernet Community – Ethernet Alliance Gigamon Launches ThreatINSIGHT Guided-SaaS NDR to Improve SOC Effectiveness and Reduce Analyst Burnout – Gigamon Palo Alto Networks Teams with AT&T to Deliver Managed SASE – Palo Alto Networks Comcast Picks Versa for SASE Service – Futuriom Verizon jumps into SASE with multi-vendor play – Fierce Telecom IBM to Acquire Turbonomic Building Industry’s Most Comprehensive AIOps Capabilities for Hybrid Cloud – IBM IBM acquires software provider Turbonomic for over $1.5 bln – Nasdaq The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components – ZDNet Sales of Data Center Switches Surged in the First Quarter of 2021,

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Fastly’s quick recovery from a serious outage, examine an AWS incident in Frankfurt, and discuss exploits targeting VMware’s vSphere. We also dig into how US law enforcement recovered Bitcoin paid to the Darkside group, talk about why building a chip foundry in a desert may be a better idea than you think, review the opening of a new wafer fab in Germany, and talk about Hashicorp’s 1.0 Terraform release. Sponsor: Nokia Did you know that Apple is using Nokia’s Data Center Fabric solution? If you want to know more, and learn about Nokia SR Linux and Fabric Services Platform for yourself, check out nokia.com/networks/dc-fabric. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks After the news we have a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks about Digital Experience Management, which is all about monitoring and managing the user experience when employees are accessing networks outside of IT’s control. Show Links: Summary of June 8 outage – Fastly AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor – The Register VMSA-2021-0010 – VMware This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack – Ars Technica How A New Team Of Feds Hacked The Hackers And Got Colonial Pipeline’s Bitcoin Back – WABE Here’s why TSMC and Intel keep building foundries in the Arizona desert – Ars Technica Bosch opens wafer fab of the future in Dresden – Bosch Media Service Bosch Flips Switch on Silicon Saxony Foundry – SDX Central Bosch is the new star in Silicon Saxony microchip cluster – DW Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 1.0 General Availability – HashiCorp Datanauts 137: Automating Infrastructure As Code With Terraform – Packet Pushers

Take a Network Break! Cisco made a heap of announcements including Cloud ACI to unify policy on premises and in the public cloud. We also discuss other Cisco announcements including a Service Mesh Manager and a new UCS line. Microsoft has acquired an IoT firmware company to tackle software vulnerabilities, and a private equity company has acquired analyst firm IDC as part of a larger purchase of IDG Group. Amazon will activate its Sidewalk mesh network on June 8, which automatically opts in Ring and Echo devices. Telia Carrier gets spun out from Swedish telco Telia Company to compete in the global IP backbone market. A patent complaint has been filed against Cisco, Arista, Juniper and other vendors in the ITC. Intel warns that the silicon shortage could last two years, and HPE announced a pretty good quarter with overall revenues up 11% year over year. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Securely enable remote workforce with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access, cloud-delivered security that  protects all user and application traffic while ensuring an exceptional user experience. Get a virtual test drive at paloaltonetworks.com/resources/test-drives. Tech Bytes: Aruba Stay tuned after the news for a Tech Bytes conversation on Wi-Fi 6E, the latest upgrade to the Wi-Fi 6 standard that takes advantage of newly available unlicensed spectrum. We’ll talk to Aruba about their forthcoming Wi-Fi 6E access point and discuss highlights of the standard. Aruba is the sponsor. Show Links: Cisco Flexes Its Muscle in Cloud: Helping Customers Be Cloud Smart to Deliver Exceptional Digital Experiences – Cisco Systems Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System – Cisco Systems Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs to enhance IoT security – Microsoft Blackstone acquires tech publisher IDG for $1.3B, as private equity strikes again – TechCrunch Introducing Amazon Sidewalk – Amazon Amazon Sidewalk: Amazon Devices & Accessories – Amazon Amazon Sidewalk Privacy And Security Whitepaper – Amazon (PDF) Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors – Ars Technica CEO BLOG: Shaping a New Era of Customer Excellence – The Telia Carrier Blog Rethinking Internet Backbone Architectures – The Telia Carrier Blog

Today’s Network Break discusses why US energy companies are flocking to buy cyber insurance and how it might influence the security market, a forthcoming Aruba AP that will use newly available spectrum, and upgrades to Juniper’s Apstra data center automation software. Extreme Networks releases a packet broker that uses the programmable Tofino ASIC, the USB-C standard gets a jolt of new power capacity, and Dell Technologies reports financial results for Q1 2022. Sponsor: CablesAndKits CablesAndKits are Experts in Awesome. We’re an award-winning IT equipment dealer with a focus on networking products from SFP Modules and servers to fiber and rack hardware. Get your IT needs and Cisco related products at CablesAndKits.com. Mention PacketPushers for a free Cat8 cable and some free loot! Tech Bytes: Aruba EdgeConnect On today’s Tech Bytes podcast we speak with Victor Vega, a Network Engineer with Sanitas, on why he’s replacing his existing SD-WAN vendor with Aruba EdgeConnect. EdgeConnect enables application-specific routing, provides network insights for troubleshooting, supports fine-grained segmentation for security and compliance, and is easier to operate for a small IT team. Show Links: After Colonial attack, energy companies rush to secure cyber insurance – Reuters American insurance giant CNA reportedly pays $40m to ransomware crooks – The Register Aruba Introduces Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade Wi-Fi 6E Solution – Aruba Here Come Wi-Fi 6E APs. Should You Care? – Packet Pushers Juniper Networks Takes Intent Networking to Next Level with New Apstra Software to Simplify Deployment and Day 2 Operations in Even More Data Center Environments – Juniper Networks Extreme Introduces Cloud-Native Network Visibility Platform for Service Providers, Delivers Unprecedented Clarity into Enterprise Network Utilization – Extreme Networks Extreme 9920 – Extreme Networks Plastic Polymer Cables That Rival Fiber Optics – IEEE Spectrum USB PG USB PD 3.1 DevUpdate Announcement – USB.org (PDF) Future-of-Work Solutions Power Dell Technologies’ Record First Quarter Fi...

Eat the donut! This week’s Network Break covers new security offerings from Palo Alto Networks as the company unveils a revamped vision for zero trust. Arista brings its EOS network OS to a sub-100 nanosecond switch, and the FTC sues Frontier Communications for allegedly misrepresenting DSL service speeds to some customers. Cisco Systems and Palo Alto Networks post strong financial quarters, and Microsoft puts an expiration date on Internet Explorer (though IE mode will live on indefinitely inside its Edge browser to support a frightening number of older Web applications). Dell Technologies SONiC Dell Technologies is helping enterprise customers to pave the way for transforming their networks with innovative open networking offerings and global support and services. A key component of this journey are commercial versions of open source SONiC both within the data center and further. Get more details at delltechnologies.com/networking. Tech Bytes: Nokia Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nokia where we dive a little deeper into Nokia’s Fabric Services System for automating a data center fabric, including a fabric emulation feature that lets you build a digital twin of the fabric to help you manage change. Show Links: Palo Alto Networks Introduces Complete Zero Trust Network Security – Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks Introduces Complete Zero Trust Network Security – Palo Alto Networks Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity – White House – Executive Order (PDF) Arista Networks Launches Sub 100ns Ultra-low Latency Switch for Financial Services – Arista FTC Sues Frontier Communications for Misrepresenting Internet Speeds – FTC Frontier sued by FTC, six states for allegedly over-promising, under-delivering broadband – The Register Cisco Reports Third Quarter Earnings – Cisco Palo Alto Networks Reports Fiscal Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results – Palo Alto Networks The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge – Windows Experience Blog

Take a Network Break! Cisco demonstrates the breadth of its business units with one acquistion targeting optical/IP network integration and another for virtual events. Network monitoring company NetBeez enhances its path analysis capabilities with a souped-up version of Traceroute. We share updates on the DarkSide ransomware-as-a-service business, grit our teeth in frustration as US broadband companies avoid punishment for astroturfing FCC comments around net neutrality, and ask for your patience as the Covid outbreak sweeping India affects tech support around the world. VMware picks a new CEO, Arista releases its latest financial results, and StarLink strikes a deal to put ground stations in Google Cloud data centers. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: CablesAndKits CablesAndKits are Experts in Awesome. We’re an award-winning IT equipment dealer with a focus on networking products from SFP Modules and Servers to Fiber and Rack hardware. Get your IT needs and Cisco related products at CablesAndKits.com. Mention PacketPushers for a free Cat8 cable and some free loot! Tech Bytes: PathSolutions Stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with PathSolutions on how to automate network troubleshooting with PathSolutions TotalView software. We talk about how TotalView gives you full visibility into your network and surfaces up actionable insights for monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis. Show Links: Sedona Systems + Cisco Crosswork = Complete Modernized Automation for Routed Optical Networking – Cisco Investor Relations – Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Socio Labs to Power the Future of Hybrid Events – Cisco Betting On Virtual Events In A Post-Covid World – Packet Pushers Paris-Traceroute Dublin-Traceroute Shining a Light on DARKSIDE Ransomware Operations – FireEye Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom – Bloomberg A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang – Krebs on Security Pipeline Update: Biden Executive Order, DarkSide Detailed and Gas Bags – Threatpost Big Telecom Used Fake and Dead People to Fight Net Neutrality, NY AG Says – Vice Attorney General James Issues Report Detailing Millions of Fake Comments, Revealing Secret Campaign to Influence FCC’s 2017 Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules – NY Attorney General