Take a Network Break! Today’s podcast starts with a couple of FUs on certifications, and then dives into news from HPE Discover including HPE’s plans to make its full portfolio available by subscription. We also enjoy HPE’s “Cloudless” as a fine example of marketing jujitsu.

Riverbed and Versa partner on SD-WAN to extend Riverbed’s portfolio and customer reach, the startup Helium combines a peer-to-peer wireless network with cryptocurrency, and Cisco announces a Catalyst bug that crashes switches if you use the “show run” command.

Broadcom says its Trident 4 silicon is now sampling, Signify launches a Li-Fi play that uses light for data transmission instead of radio waves, and an open source group releases a proposed standard for service meshes.

Cumulus co-founder JR Rivers departs the company, Huawei says the US ban will strip $30 billion in revenue, a lack of good security gets very costly, and GE releases an unintentional parody video on the perils of IoT.

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Tech Bytes: Gluware

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Gluware. Recorded live at Intent ‘19, we talk with CEO and co-founder Jeff Gray about network automation, the notion of intent engineering, and how Gluware works.

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Certification Links:

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications Part II (CCNA)

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications Part III (CCNP)

Cisco Certification Updates

The CCIE Times Are A Changing

Future of Cisco Certs ?

Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE Certification MAJOR Update – Changes in 2020

HPE announces plans to offer entire portfolio as a Service by 2022 – HPE

HPE: Since y’all love cloud subs so much, we’ll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022 – The Register

Riverbed Strengthens and Expands Enterprise SD-WAN Market Presence, Signs Strategic Global OEM Agreement with Versa Networks – Riverbed

BiB 076: Versa Titan: SD-WAN ...