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Take a Network Break! This week we cover Arista’s new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debate whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign of problems or opportunity, and cover an update on the size of the SASE market.
HPE acquires a startup for monitoring and managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure, Google gives up on Glass Enterprise Edition, and journalists in Ecuador are targeted with USB sticks that literally explode.
Avaya declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy and touts millions in new capital, and Taiwan says it will build its own satellite broadband network to serve the country.
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Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks
Join Palo Alto Networks for a virtual event where they’ll unveil what’s next in SASE, with the latest innovations in Prisma® SASE, ZTNA 2.0 and SD-WAN. See how these new capabilities help your customers consolidate multiple point products intoa single platform to reduce TCO. Learn how they will also help automate costly and complex IT operations and stop zero-day threats in real time. Sign up at https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/sase-signature-moment-2023.html.
Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks
Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks about its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering that integrates SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security, and why you might want to consider a single-vendor SASE option.
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Arista Modernizes Routing in the Wide Area Network – Arista
Arista 5000 Series – Arista
Briefings In Brief 103: Arista Enters The SD-WAN Arena – Packet Pushers
Aryaka’s Expanded SD-WAN and SASE Offerings Bring Simplicity and Affordability to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises – PR Newswire
SASE Continues to Roll with Revenue up 34 Percent to Top $6 Billion in 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management – HPE
Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition – 9 to 5 Google
Glass Enterprise Edition Announcement FAQ – Google
Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face – Ars Technica

Take a Network Break! Greg Ferro asked ChatGPT to select virtual donut options for listeners. You can see the output below. On this week’s episode we start with some listener follow-up on pronunciations and desk-sharing, and then we examine Palo Alto Networks adding AI Ops to its SASE offering, and Microsoft Copilot bringing AI into its suite of Office tools.
The Ethernet Adapter market grew 22% in 2022, but not because more NICs were sold; we find out the real reasons. We discuss the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank failing, and Cisco launching a new learning platform for certification and training seekers. The US government threatens to impose cloud security standards, revenue for Secure Service Edge (SSE) grows, and Amazon unveils terminals for its satellite broadband service (though you won’t have anything to connect those terminals to anytime soon).
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Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks
Join Palo Alto Networks for a virtual event where they’ll unveil what’s next in SASE, with the latest innovations in Prisma® SASE, ZTNA 2.0 and SD-WAN. See how these new capabilities help your customers consolidate multiple point products in to a single platform to reduce TCO. Learn how they will also help automate costly and complex IT operations and stop zero-day threats in real time. Sign up at https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/sase-signature-moment-2023.html.
Sponsor: Itential
We’re sponsored today by Itential. Itential simplifies automation across hybrid cloud network infrastructure. Their platform makes it easy for network teams to bring their own automation assets and scale their network automation efforts, so you can spend more time working on the things you like instead of the repetitive, tedious tasks. Find out more at itential.com/packetpushers.
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How To Pronounce Thales Option 1 – French
How To Pronounce Thales Option 2 – English
News:

 
Palo Alto Networks Leads the Industry to AI-Powered SASE – Palo Alto Networks
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work – Microsoft
Ethernet Adapter Market Grew 40 Percent in 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group
SmartNIC, DPU Revenue Forecast To Grow 30% In 2023 – Packet Pushers
Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC – U.S. Department of the Treasury
Silicon Valley Bank failure – JP Morgan (PDF)
HSBC to buy Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1 in rescue deal – The Guardian

Take a Network Break! On today’s episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine a new record for wavelength transmission using coherent pluggable optics, and opine on Germany’s mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks.
Integrated SIMs, or iSIMs, are coming to Snapdragon SoCs, and VMware sees revenues rise but income fall. Google employees aren’t thrilled about a new shared desk policy for hybrid workers, and the acquisition of a satellite business gets a provisional green light from UK regulators.
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Tech Bytes: BackBox
Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes podcast we talk network automation with sponsor BackBox. From backing up network devices to updating operating systems and configurations and other tasks, BackBox works across more than 180 vendors. We’ll talk about how BackBox works and hear customer use cases. Find out more at backbox.com/packetpushers.
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Data Center Switch Sales Broke a New Record in 4Q 2022 and Full Year 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group
Infinera & Corning Achieve World-record Transmission with Infinera ICE-X QSFP-DD Coherent Pluggable – Infinera
Two World Records Mark a New Chapter in the Evolution of Coherent Pluggables – Infinera
Arelion and Infinera set new benchmark for 400G ZR+ deployments in live network field trial – Arelion
Exclusive: Deutsche Bahn bets on Huawei for railway digitalisation despite security concerns – Reuters
German 5G network ban said to loom for Huawei and ZTE – The Register
Qualcomm and Thales Unveil World’s First GSMA Compliant iSIM with Latest Snapdragon Mobile Platform – Qualcomm
iSIM (integrated SIM): definition, benefits, perspective – Thales
VMware Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results – Business Wire
Google CEO defends desk-sharing policy, says offices like ‘ghost town’ – CNBC
UK antitrust watchdog provisionally clears Viasat’s $7.3B buy of Inmarsat – The Register

Take a Network Break! We begin with some FU on what constitutes on-prem and off-prem, and then dive into news. Cisco and T-Mobile are partnering on 5G gateways, Cisco Webex is getting installed as a feature(?) in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Valtix offers firewalling, IPS, a cloud Web app firewall, and more for the big 4 US clouds.

The White House releases its National Cybersecurity Strategy which includes a proposal to make vendors liable for significant software defects, SNIA releases a new standard for memory-to-memory data movement, and IBM acquires DNS provider NS1.

Meta announces a Large Language Model (LLM) that can run on a single GPU, HPE buys Axis security to add cloud-delivered security services to its portfolio, and HPE announced it lost half a billion dollars in Q1 of its fiscal 2023.

APNIC beats back an activist contingent in recent elections, and LastPass discloses that attackers got access to a key employee’s laptop.

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Investor Relations – Cisco @ Mobile World Congress: Showcasing Simple and Secure Wireless Experiences to Help Businesses Connect More People and Things – Cisco

Cisco Launches Meraki 5G Gateways with T-Mobile to Deliver Simple and Scalable Business Internet – Cisco

Simplify and Scale Anywhere Connectivity – Cisco Systems

Investor Relations – Mercedes-Benz AG Partners with Cisco to Drive Hybrid Work Innovation in Automotive – Cisco

Accelerating Our Security Cloud Vision: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Valtix  – Cisco Blogs

National Cybersecurity Strategy – White House

SNIA’s New Smart Data Accelerator Interface Specification – SNIA

IBM Plans to Acquire NS1 to Help Enterprises Drive Network Agility in their Hybrid Cloud Environments – IBM

NetBoxLabs Blog – NetBox Labs

Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU [Updated] – Ars Technica

LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models – Meta

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss HPE’s purchase of Athonet and whether there’s enough demand for private 5G to justify it, new features in the OpenNMS network management platform, and a cloud misconfiguration that exposed sensitive military files to the Internet.

Aviz and Marvell partner on a SONiC-based network OS running on Marvell silicon, a security research firms says attackers were able to remotely penetrate data centers in Asia, and a SaaS provider says it will save millions over the next five years by abandoning public cloud.

Intel cuts its dividend to shareholders in a sign of significant financial hardship, and Nvidia sees income drop in its Q4 and full-year financial results.

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Sponsor: Itential

We’re sponsored today by Itential. Itential simplifies automation across hybrid cloud network infrastructure. Their platform makes it easy for network teams to bring their own automation assets and scale their network automation efforts, so you can spend more time working on the things you like instead of the repetitive, tedious tasks. Find out more at itential.com/packetpushers.

Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes

After the news we talk about Open Telemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among different monitoring and analysis platforms. We’ll talk with ThousandEyes about how it’s using OpenTelemetry to integrate  network visibility with  broader observability data.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise doubles down on private 5G, extends leadership in wireless connectivity with acquisition of Athonet – HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends leadership in enterprise connectivity with private 5G offering – HPE

OpenNMS releases OpenNMS Meridian 2023 with New Cloud-enabled Capabilities – OpenNMS

Sensitive US military emails spill online – Tech Crunch

Marvell and Aviz Networks Collaborate to Drive SONiC Deployment in Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers – Marvell

Logins for Apple data centers and others found online – Tech Radar

Two data centers used by major tech firms hacked – SC Magazine

Cyber Attacks on Data Center Organizations – Resecurity

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Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Avaya filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time, repeated breaches at GoDaddy, and vulnerabilities in Fortinet products.
Nokia introduces a photonic services engine that can support 800Gbps, the US Supreme Court will hear a challenge to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that shields social media companies from content liabilities, and Cisco and Arista both report good financial results.
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Sponsor: Nokia
We’re sponsored today by Nokia and its data center fabric for network automation and orchestration. Nokia’s data center fabric is designed for day zero design, day one deployment, and operations for Day Two and beyond.  Find out more at nokia.ly/dc-fabric, and listen to Heavy Networking episode 653 to get details and hear customer use cases.
Tech Bytes: Fortinet

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Fortinet. We talk about universal Zero Trust Network Access, or ZTNA, including shifting your access policies toward applications rather than networks, and how to implement zero trust for IoT devices.
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Get ‘SASE’ with Cisco+ Secure Connect – Tech Field Day via YouTube
Cisco Connects and Protects with New Cloud Tools Across Networking, Security and Operations to Provide Greater Visibility and Control Over Networks – Cisco Systems


News:
Avaya files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – Reuters
Avaya Wipes Out Shareholders In Bankruptcy (NYSE:AVYA) – Seeking Alpha
Avaya bankruptcy: Why shareholders are likely the big losers – Triangle Business Journal
GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach – Bleeping Computer
GoDaddy Inc. – Statement on recent website redirect issues – GoDaddy
Fortinet fixes critical RCE flaws in FortiNAC and FortiWeb – Bleeping Computer
FortiNAC – External Control of File Name or Path in keyUpload scriptlet – FortiGuard Labs
FortiWeb – Stack-based buffer overflows in Proxyd...