Network Break
The Network Break podcast keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends & business outcomes. Published weekly.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Network Break 363: Broadcom Buys AppNeta For Experience Monitoring; Cloudflare Offers New Firewall Service
This week's Network Break asks 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, dive i…
00:50:45 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Network Break 362: AWS Announces Private 5G Service; FTC Says No To Nvidia’s Arm Grab
Today's Network Break covers two AWS announcements including a private 5G offering and new networking service, discusses why the FTC is against Nvidia acquiring Arm Holdings, examines a new security …
00:58:16 |
Mon 06 Dec 2021
Network Break 361: US Government Targets Spyware Maker; Ericsson Spends $6.2 Billion For Vonage
In this week's Network Break we discuss how an Israeli spyware maker ran afoul of the US government, why Ericsson is dropping $6.2 billion in cash for Vonage, new IPv6 subnets available in AWS, and m…
00:51:16 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Network Break 360: Facebook Chooses Cisco ASIC For OCP; Apple To Allow Limited Self-Service Repair
This week's Network Break podcast examines why Facebook has chosen Cisco and Broadcom ASICS for new Open Compute Project switch designs, Apple will allow self-service repair of two iPhone models, For…
00:46:54 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Network Break 359: Arista Increases Its 400G Switch Portfolio; Nvidia Accelerates InfiniBand
This week's Network Break examines new 400G switches from Arista, discusses the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification program for the HaLow long-range low-power standard, targets key Nvidia announcements, c…
00:47:50 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Network Break 358: Unpacking Juniper’s Strategic Objectives; Intel Details New Infrastructure Chip
This weeks' Network Break discusses Juniper's Analyst & Influencer day plus a new Wi-Fi 6E announcement. Intel is teaming up with Google to develop a chip for offloading network, security, and storag…
00:52:52 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Network Break 357: Switchless Networking? Startup Rockport Says Yes; ISPs Monetize Customer Surveillance
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss how startup Rockport Networks brings switchless networking to the data center. The FTC says ISPs are amassing and monetizing sensitive customer data. Cisco …
00:48:07 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
Network Break 356: Aruba Beefs Up ToR Switch With DPUs; VMware Stands Free
This week on the Network Break podcast we discuss a new ToR switch from Aruba that includes built-in silicon to offload security and network services. Dell Technologies says the VMware spin-off will …
00:57:01 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Network Break 355: Azure Brags About DDoS Protection; Marvell Hitches Ride With Dent Network OS
Today on the Network Break, we discuss Marvell's choice of the Dent network OS for its Prestera silicon, Microsoft shares details about how its Azure cloud service thwarted a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack, a r…
00:55:34 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Network Break 354: VMworld’s Constipation, Facebook Footgun, Marvell 5nm DPUs
This week on Network Break, VMware disgorges a slew of announcements at VMworld 2021, Facebook shoots itself in the foot with BGP and DNS bullets, Marvell announces new silicon for Data Processing Un…
01:06:04 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Network Break 353: New Juniper Chassis Tops 400G; Akamai Spends Big Money On Microsegmentation
This week's Network Break talks about a new data center chassis from Juniper, why Akamai spent $600 million to buy security company Guardicore, what happened to Zoom's big acquisition of a contact ce…
00:53:40 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
Network Break 352: Nokia Announces 800G Routing Silicon; Pica8 Enticingly Prices Its Campus Controller, Switches
This week's Network Break podcast discusses Nokia's new beefed-up routing silicon, how Pica8 is pursuing campus switching with a controller/switch pricing bundle, and the latest critical security pat…
00:49:24 |
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Network Break 351: Juniper’s Wired Campus Fabric Challenges Cisco; More Azure Holes Revealed
Today's Network Break podcast discusses Juniper's new wired campus effort and how it leverages Mist Cloud for to help automate its campus fabric, a new set of Azure vulnerabilities, robust SD-WAN gro…
00:53:21 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Network Break 350: Intel Pledges Billions For European Chip Factories; Facebook Reveals New Data Center Design
This week's Network Break podcast wonders what Intel wants in return for a multi-year, multi-billion pledge to build European chip factories, marvels at Facebook's newly revealed data center designs,…
00:31:08 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Network Break 349: T-Mobile Fails To Protect Millions Of Customer Records; Ciena Buys Vyatta Router
Today's Network Break podcast opines on why Ciena acquired the Vyatta router from AT&T (and why AT&T wanted to sell), how T-Mobile failed current and former customers via a breach that exposed sensit…
00:32:26 |
Tue 07 Sep 2021
Network Break 348: Ransomware Bedevils Cyber Insurance; TSMC To Raise Chip Prices
This week's Network Break examines how ransomware has insurers rethinking premiums and coverage limits, discusses the pros and cons of ISPs sharing flow records with security companies, digs into Ari…
00:54:03 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processin…
00:55:28 |
Mon 23 Aug 2021
Network Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms
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 Edu…
00:43:16 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
Network Break 345: Marvell Acquires High-End Ethernet ASICs; Arista CEO Says Component Shortage ‘Worst I’ve Seen’
This week's Network Break podcat discusses Marvell's Innovium buy and its impact on the high-end Ethernet market, new Juniper security software for applications, Arista financial results and componen…
00:47:33 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
Network Break 344: Zoom Expands Into Contact Center Biz; Will Devs Choose Cloudflare’s Green Compute?
Zoom buys its way into the contact center biz with the $14.7 billion purchase of Five9, Extreme announces Wi-Fi 6E APs, Cloudflare debuts Green Compute for scheduled workloads, and IT vendors report …
00:50:18 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
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