Network Break
Episodes
NB573: Cisco Open-Sources OpenClaw Protection; T-Mobile Taps Starlink for Broadband Redundancy
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! It’s a busy show this week. We start with follow-up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, router bans, and end-of-engine...
NB572: Quantum Switches and Flying Cars
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Linux 7.0. On the news side, Cisco announces a prototype quan...
NB571: Linux Loads 7.0 with Network Upgrades; NetGear Routes Around FCC Ban, But How?
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a trio of vulnerabilities in Cisco ISE. On the news front, Cloudflare announces a private network offering ...
NB570: Project Glasswing’s FUD and Thunder; Au Revoir Windows, Bonjour Linux
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We commence with a red alert on FastMCP, and then debate whether Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is a marketing stunt or a r...
NB569: Adding Drones to Your DR Plan; Collision Avoidance (Orbital, not Wi-Fi)
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Integrated Management Controller. In the news, Verizon settles patent li...
NB568: Arm Reaches for More AI Revenue with In-House CPU; Debating the FCC Router Ban
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Mozilla is our Red Alert topic, with critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird. On the news front, we cover a string o...
NB567: CISA Says Harden Endpoint Managers; NVIDIA Launches GPUs for Orbital Workloads
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert about a swarm of critical D-Link vulnerabilities. In this week’s news, CISA warns organizations to ha...
NB566: Google Spins Out Fiber Business; HPE Networking Revenue Soars in Q1
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We begin with listener follow-up on Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities and a report that Nvidia is investing billions to develop open-...
NB565: New Algorithm Claims Quicker Quantum Decryption; Nvidia Revenue Rockets Higher
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Guest commentator Tom Hollingsworth joins Drew for today’s episode. We start with a double Red Alert from Cisco for its Se...
NB564: New Juniper Routers Pump Up AI and Cloud-Scale Traffic; Anthropic Vs. DoD
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on the proper pronunciation of the US state of Nevada, and then sound the alarm about new research that ...
NB563: Palo Alto Networks Nets Koi for AI Security; Quantum Networking Notches Research Wins
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups on secure browsers and data centers in space, and then sound the red alert about an RCE vulnerability i...
NB562: Cisco Challenges Broadcom With 102.4Tb ASIC; Arista Reaches Record Revenues
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on data centers in space, and sound the Red Alert about a sandbox failure in Claude Code and a ...
NB561: Kubernetes Retires Ingress NGINX; Are Data Centers Headed for Orbit?
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a trio of follow-ups, including a correction regarding Mplify certifications, Cisco proposing new OSI layers, and ...
NB560: Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We’ve got Red Alerts for HPE Juniper Session Smart Routers and SolarWinds. In this week’s news, Microsoft debuts its...
NB559: Cisco Builds Nexus Switch for Intel AI Chips; TeraWave Promises 6Tbps from Space
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert in Oracle’s WebLogic Server Proxy Plugin for Apache or IIS, which has a severity score of 10. In...
NB558: Microsoft Buys Indulgences for Carbon Sins; Starlink Cleared for 7,500 More Satellites
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we start with follow-up from a perhaps not-so-red Red Alert, and then cover two very-red Red Alerts. On the news front...
NB557: Meta Goes Nuclear; Arista Taps EVPN VXLAN for Massive Mobility Domains
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! The virtual donut factory is back from hiatus, and we’ve got a fresh batch to pass around as we discuss the week’s t...
NB556: 2025 Wrap: Insatiable AI, the Worst Top 5, Space Networking Surges, and More
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We close out 2025 with a look back at some of the stories and trends that captured our attention this year. We start with the to...
NB555: AI and APIs Drive HPE’s Dual-Platform WLAN Strategy; Dell, HPE Dangle VMware Alternatives
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert calls out a dangerous vulnerability in the popular open-source React library. On the news front, HPE decides on a ...
NB554: AWS, Google Link Public Clouds; Trading Data Center Has Zero Chill
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Fortinet’s vulnerability numbering, and sound a red alert about an authentication bypa...
1124 NB553: Palo Alto Networks Acquires Chronosphere; New Agentic AI Products for Orchestration and Networking
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a relative path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiWeb. We’ll move on to an acquisition by...
NB552: Nokia Switches On AI Ops; IBM Seeks a Quantum of Advantage
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Red Hat Samba server has a remote command execution vulnerability, and we cover some follow-up on fusion as a viable energy sour...
NB551: Cisco Adds AI to Tech Support; Cryptography Hits a Post-Quantum Milestone
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Unified Contact Center Express. On the news front it’s a Cisco tri...
NB550: A Cornucopia of AI Switches; DNS Strikes Again
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with some educational content on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, and sound the alarm about a sandbox escape affecting t...
NB549: Startups Take on Switch, ASIC Incumbents; Google Claims Quantum Advantage
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Companies spying on…I mean, monitoring…their employees via software called WorkExaminer should be aware of a login b...
NB548: Broadcom Brings Chips to Wi-Fi 8 Party; Attorneys General Scrutinize HPE/Juniper Settlement
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! On today’s coverage, F5 releases an emergency security update after state-backed threat actors breach internal systems, an...
NB547: New Cisco Router Targets AI DCI; Salesforce Launches ServiceNow Competitor
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on security browsers, and then dive into a deep pool of Juniper vulnerabilities to pick two cri...
NB546: Meta Mulls GPU Startup Purchase; Indirect Prompt Injection Exacerbates AI Risks
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a two-part listener follow-up and sound alarms about a serious flaw in Termix and tens of thousands of still-vulne...
NB545: CISA Orders Immediate Patch of Cisco Vulnerabilities; Firewall Upgrade Blocks Emergency Calls
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an abundance of vulnerabilities in this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert on a cluster of Cisco vulnerabilities in i...
NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s big-money deals and ever-more AI on this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert from NVIDIA, which has rolled out a software...
NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on...
NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Netw...
NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups regarding the 7-year-old Cisco bug, risks of AI agents, and Anthropic forcing you to opt out or have yo...
NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We double-dip on red alerts as the FBI warns that Russian state hackers are targeting a seven-year-old vulnerability on Cisco IO...
NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Fortinet’s FortiSIEM. On the news fr...
NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on post-quantum support in firewalls and DPDK, then highlight a command injection vulnerability in Rucku...
NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Guest opinionator Tom Hollingsworth joins Johna Johnson to opine on the latest tech news. On the vulnerability front, several ve...
NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! In our Red Alert section we note that memory safety bugs bug Firefox and Thunderbird, and on-prem SharePoint instances are under...
NB535: Tomahawk Ultra Chops Congestion; Denmark Invests for Quantum Advantages
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We begin with a listener question about a paper critiquing Shor’s Algorithm and quantum computing, and touch on a remote c...
NB534: Arista Late to SD-WAN Party but Ready to Dance; CoreWeave Acquires GPUs, Gigawatts for $9 Billion
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista market share in the enterprise, and then sound the alarm about a remote code executio...
NB533: HPE Settles With DoJ to Buy Juniper; Juniper Must Auction Mist Source Code
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! HPE and Juniper have settled with the US Department of Justice, allowing HPE’s $14 billion purchase to move forward. Howev...
NB532: HPE Deploys AI Agents Into GreenLake; Wi-Fi 7 Drives Q1 Switch Sales
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert is a remote code execution vulnerability in Roundcube. On the news front, HPE announces GreenLake Intelligence, wh...
NB531: Cisco Spotlights AI, Unified Management at CLUS; Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Unveiled
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert for the week is a remote code execution vulnerability in open-source XDR platform Wazuh. In tech news, we dig into...
NB530: Broadcom Hits 102.4 Tbps With Tomahawk 6; Wireshark Debuts Certificate Program
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with two critical vulnerabilities: one affecting cloud versions of Cisco ISE, and the other for HPE StoreOnce. In the n...
NB529: HPE Debuts 8Tbps Switch with Onboard DPUs; NVIDIA Revenues Run Wild
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tool, which has an unpatched (as of recording time) vulnerability that c...
NB528: IP Fabric Adds Firewall Rule Simulation; Extreme Networks Debuts Agentic AI in Platform ONE
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We begin with a Red Alert for critical vulnerabilities Kubernetes Gardener. Up next, a threat actor has been squatting on unused...
NB527: AWS Releases AI Agent for VMware Migration; Cisco Bullish On Customer AI Spending
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Tom Hollingsworth steps in for Johna Johnson. We start with Google patching a significant Chrome vulnerability and...
NB526: Cisco Unveils Quantum Networking Prototype; Arista Earns Record Revenues
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up from a listener on the best way to listen to our podcast that helps the most. The answer? Any listen on ...
NB525: Cisco, IBM Recruit AI for Threat Response; HPE Air-Gaps Private Clouds
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we catch up on the Airborne vulnerabilities affecting Apple’s AirPlay protocol and SDK, and get an update on act...
NB524: Forward Networks Adds Endpoint Discovery; Intel Forecasts Q2 Layoffs
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert for SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer Metadata Uploader, and then dive into a new endpoint discovery f...
NB523: CVE’s Reprieve, Google WAN For Sale, NVIDIA Pledges More US-Made Chips
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a red alert for the CVE program, which nearly lost government funding before CISA stepped in, and then raise an al...
NB522: Git Turns 20, An iPhone Airlift, Cybersec Silence Speaks Volumes
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Ned Bellavance steps in for Johna this week. We start with a Fortinet vulnerability, and then opine on a memo from...
NB521: Optics Advances in the Data Center; Google Extends Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We check in on a serious Firefox vulnerability, explore NIST’s latest post-quantum encryption algorithm, and discuss a bro...
NB520: When Good LLMs Do Bad Things, Dell’s Workforce Downsizes and Quantum Key Distribution From Space
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grab a virtual doughnut to blaze through this week’s IT news with Johna Johnson and John Burke as Drew Conry-Murray is enjoying his glazed, filled a...
NB519: Google Bids $32 Billion for Cloud Security Startup; NVIDIA Makes Nice With Quantum Computing
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Google’s $32 billion acquisition of CNAPP provider Wiz, Cloudflare offerings for AI security and suppor...
NB518: Clock Starts For New Intel CEO; Arista Load Balancing Targets AI Infrastructure
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with warnings about an Apple Webkit zero day and ransonware exploits against known Fortinet vulnerabilites, and discuss...
NB517: TSMC Pledges $165 Billion for US Chip Manufacturing; Will the CHIPS Act Get Axed?
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we’re joined by guest analyst Tom Hollingsworth of The Futurum Group. We start with red alerts from Broadcom on ...
NB516: Cisco, Nvidia ASIC Deal Chases Enterprise AI; Juniper Welcomes Third-Party LLMs
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we start with a couple of follow-ups and a Red Alert, and then jump into tech news. Cisco and Nvidia team up to put Ci...
NB515: Quantum Computing’s Future Looking More Certain; Arista Posts Record 2024 Revenues
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of good stuff in this week’s Network Break. Microsoft announces an 8-qubit quantum chip and declares that practical quantum computing is ye...
NB514: Cisco, Juniper Announce New Switches; SolarWinds Goes Private in $4.4 Billion Buyout
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with some Red Alert vulnerabilities to get your blood pumping, and then dive into networking news. Cisco announces new ...
NB513: UK Demands Apple Backdoor; AI Spending: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with some red alerts for Cisco ISE, Zyxel, Microsoft, and a Web manager suite called WeGIA. US senators and security ex...
NB512: US Objects to HPE-Juniper Wedding; Cheeky DeepSeek Freaks VCs
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! The US Justice Department blocks the HPE-Juniper merger with a surprise lawsuit, DeepSeek shakes up the AI world, and Broadcom r...
NB511: Cisco Sells Security Blanket for AI Nightmares; Stratoshark Captures System Calls
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities affecting the Android OS, Cisco Meeting Management, and SonicWall, and then discuss a rep...
NB510: CISA Says US Tech Inherently Insecure; AI Now Included in Google Workspace
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host John Burke joins Drew Conry-Murray for this week’s analysis of tech news. They discuss a string of serious v...
NB509: FCC to Raise Funds for Rip-and-Replace of Chinese Telco Gear; Billionaire Space Race Takes Off
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with serious CVEs for Perl and Ivanti. On the news front, the FCC wants to license spectrum to raise money to help US t...
NB508: Google Serves Up Custom AI and Quantum Chips; Nokia Puts Muscle Behind SONiC
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This is our final show for 2024. We start with critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti and OpenWrt, and then discuss what effect a pr...
NB507: Arista Announces Stackable Switches; FBI Recommends Encrypted Messaging
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we warn of significant vulnerabilities in WhatsUp Gold and Cisco NX-OS. We also discuss US federal reaction to the pen...
NB506: Billions Flow for US Chips; FCC Lets T-Mobile, SpaceX Make Phone Calls from Orbit
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We’ve got a full menu for our post-Thanksgiving episode. We start with a host of critical CVEs affecting Veritas and a cou...
NB505: NetBox Makes Lateral Moves with New Products; Submarine Cable Cuts Raise Suspicions
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a brief follow-up on our CVE coverage, and then dive into a serious one-two set of vulnerabilities being exploited...
NB504: Cisco Updates Licensing, Branding with Wi-Fi 7; Google Cloud To Require MFA
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we get an update on SonicWall’s new firewall warranty. We also cover Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7 launch; in addition t...
NB503: Apple Buys Stake in Satellite Telecom Company; Arista Enjoys AI Revenue Bump
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a serious Cisco vulnerability, SonicWall offering a firewall warranty, and a security advisory from ID provid...
NB502: AWS Revenue Growth Lags Cloud Competitors; Microsoft Entra ID Forces MFA
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Google adding traffic shaping to its cross-cloud interconnect, Aviatrix bringing hybrid cloud transit to it...
NB501: Fortinet, Cisco Defects Being Exploited; FCC Wants Input on ISP Data Caps
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new ZTNA offering from NaaS startup Alkira, a serious vulnerability in Fortinet’s management softwa...
NB500: SolarWinds and MacOS Vulernabilities Get Attention; Amazon Invests in Nuclear to Meet Power, Carbon Goals
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Network Break discusses a CISA warning that a serious SolarWinds vulnerability is being exploited, Microsoft turns the tables by dis...
NB499: Juniper Extending AI Umbrella to Security; Should We Regulate AI or AI Outcomes?
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new Juniper announcement and discuss how the company is bringing its security portfolio under its AI umbrel...
NB498: BlueCat Flows Into Network Performance With LiveAction Buy; T-Mobile Ordered to Appoint a CISO
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! DDI specialist BlueCat is getting into network performance monitoring with its LiveAction acquisition, T-Mobile is ordered to sp...
NB497: Blocking AI Scraper Bots; HPE, Arista Reach for Bigger Slices of the Enterprise
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss significant vulnerabilities in HPE APs and Cisco Catalyst 9K switches, the benefits of bug bounties, how HP...
NB496: Nokia’s Enterprise Data Center Intentions; Are AI ChatBots Worth the Nuclear Waste?
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Microsoft’s proposed deal to buy power from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, new APs and switches...
NB495: Fortinet Customer Data Stolen; Boeing to Test Quantum Entanglement Networking
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss the theft of 440Gbytes of customer data from a Fortinet cloud repository, how to think about resiliency aft...
NB494: AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Support; Verizon Spends $20 Billion for Frontier
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover an AT&T lawsuit against Broadcom over changes to a support contract for VMware software, why Verizon is s...
NB493: Cisco Acquires AI Startup to Police AI; Nvidia, Dell Ride GPU Profit Wave
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a couple of listener FUs, and then dive into the news. Attackers exploit a zero-day in Versa to harvest crede...
NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Robocalls
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! A US appeals court will let a privacy lawsuit against Google go forward, striking telecom workers are a reminder to test your re...
NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chip Factories
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Hackers may have stolen millions of US Social Security numbers, HPE acquires a multi-cloud management company, and Cisco announc...
NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the Bird
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a judge’s ruling that Google is monopolist and potential outcomes, the HPE/Juniper acquisition clearing...
NB489: Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike; Intel to Fire 15,000 Employees
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a proposed class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike, while Delta investigates options to seek damages from ...
NB488: CrowdStrike Bug Tester Was Buggy; Can Starlink Match US ISP Performance?
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on CrowdStrike and Microsoft, and then examine a CrowdStrike incident review in which the secur...
NB487: The BSODs Strike Back; SolarWinds Sorta Dodges SEC Bullets
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover the CrowdStrike/Microsoft patch debacle, why SolarWinds isn’t entirely out of trouble following a judge...
NB486: Chrome Ditches Entrust Certs; Do AI Stocks Mirror the DotCom Bubble?
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover why the Google Chrome browser won’t trust a set of Entrust digital certificates come November and what ...
NB485: A Final FU for Greg
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we...
NB484: HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with a longish round of FUs, and then dive into news. HPE announces HPE Private Cloud, which includes software, switche...
NB483: Cisco Hopes To Be Ikea For AI Infrastructure; Is Anyone Besides Nvidia Making Money From AI?
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We start with an announcement from Greg about his impending retirement. After we dust ourselves off from that, we pivot to this ...
NB482: HPE Launches Enterprise Private 5G; Arista Creates Agent for NVIDIA SmartNICs
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew for a second week. We start with a follow-up on last week’s take on HPE and 5G. With this week’s HPE...
NB481: HPE Unloads BSS/OSS Tools; Multi-National Force Busts Botnets
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew this week. We start with HPE adapting to the 5G market and unloading BSS/OSS tools to HCLTech. Dell fina...
NB480: New Dell Switch Targets Ethernet AI Fabrics; Nvidia Net Income Leaps 628%
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! Lots of hardware news in today’s episode. We start with a new data center Ethernet switch from Dell designed to accelerate...
NB479: Solar Storm Survival; Cisco’s Sinking Revenue Doesn’t Dampen Wall Street
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss what IBM and Palo Alto Networks get out of a deal for Palo Alto Networks to buy the SaaS version of the QRa...
NB478: More AI Assistants Emerge; Dell Tracks Hybrid Workers’ Office Attendance
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We begin the episode with some follow-up on edge AI chips, whether Packet Pushers should start a dedicated AI channel, and a cla...
NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new microsegmentation offering from Arista, new GenAI assistants from Fortinet, and a GenAI firewall from V...
NB476: IBM Buys HashiCorp; Running Data Centers With Vegetable Oil?
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! We welcome guest commentator Kyler Middleton of Day Two Cloud to discuss the IBM/HashiCorp deal, then pivot to new Wi-Fi 7 APs f...
NB475: Cisco Hypes Hypershield; Broadcom Tries To Clarify VMware Strategy
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Hypershield, a new Cisco security product that uses technology from its Isovalent acquisition. We parse a blo...
NB474: Intel Strikes Back In GPU Wars; The Fork Is Strong With Valkey
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take a Network Break! This week we start with some FU on Intel drivers, and how FISA affects people outside (and inside) the US. In the news we cover ...