Take a Network Break! We start with a few FU’s regarding last episode’s Dell announcements, as well as a correction on our reporting on Juniper’s SD-WAN capabilities.

On the news front, Microsoft has announced it will include a Linux kernel in Windows, VMware and Dell EMC partner to deliver on-premises infrastructure that’s operated and paid for as if it was in the cloud, and Cisco announces an “SD-WAN for colocations” offering.

China has reportedly repurposed U.S. hacking tools to use against Western countries, internal vendor security continues to be a problem, and Microsoft recommends that admins use separate workstations for administrative duties as a security measure.

The Public Internet Registry, which runs the .org domain, wants to eliminate price controls. Last but not least, Symantec’s CEO resigns as the company reports its Q4 and full fiscal year results.

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Sponsor: TeleGeography

We’re also sponsored by TeleGeography,  a telecommunications market research firm. TeleGeography wants you to know about its  WAN Cost Benchmark. This is a tool that lets you model your hybrid WAN expansion plans and compare costs based on over 2 million data points. Head to benchmark.telegeography.com to learn more.

Sponsor: Gluware Intent

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Tech Bytes: SnapRoute

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with SnapRoute, the startup behind the Cloud Native Network OS (CN-NOS). We get an introduction to its network OS, learn how SnapRoute differentiates itself from other network OSs, and drill into the operational capabilities it enables.

Follow Up Links:

Dell EMC Networking Virtual Edge Platform – Dell EMC

Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) Deployment Guide – Juniper Networks (PDF)

Heavy Networking 448: An Inside Look At What’s New In Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

News Links:

Announcing WSL 2 – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers – Microsoft

Take a Network Break! Pack a few extra virtual donuts because today our news cup runneth over.

Dell EMC flooded the market with a host of new products including VMware on Azure, an OEM deal with Big Switch, and a new server that bundles VeloCloud SD-WAN. And is Dell World shrinking?

Cisco Systems released three new Wi-Fi 6/802.11ax APs and a new Catalyst campus core switch, and also releases a string of new security patches including a fix for a hardcoded SSH key.

Cumulus releases version 2 of its NetQ switch management software, infrastructure provider Citycomp gets breached, and Bloomberg hypes a Huawei story for clicks.

SpaceX gets approval for a revised plan for satellite broadband, Aryaka lands $50 million in a series F investment, Arista Networks releases its quarterly financials, and Russia creates the legal framework for a national Internet.

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Show Notes:

Power Up Your Network, from Edge to Core to Cloud – Direct2DellEMC

Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions – The Official Microsoft Blog

Dell Technologies and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Help Customers Accelerate Their Digital Transformation – VMware

VMware Cloud Solutions on Azure – Microsoft Azure

Big Switch Networks Deepens Open Networking Collaboration with Dell EMC OEM Agreement and Dell EMC Ready Stack Validated Designs – Big Switch

Dell Technologies Transforms IT from Edge to Core to Cloud – Dell Technologies Colombia

Take a Network Break!

On today’s show we parse Apple’s spending on AWS and why it may be worth it, read between the lines of a G7 communication that wants Internet companies to provide access to encrypted data, and track whether core Internet routers have hit 786,000 IPv4 routes in their tables.

Pica8 releases new switch management software, Russia looks to homegrown technology for its 5G deployment, and Britian’s National Security Council gives Huawei a green light to sell to UK operators–just not in the network core.

Hertz sues Accenture for a botched site rollout, and Juniper, Amazon, and Microsoft release quarterly earnings.

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ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: TeleGeography

We’re also sponsored by TeleGeography,  a telecommunications market research firm. TeleGeography wants you to know about its  WAN Cost Benchmark. This is a tool that lets you model your hybrid WAN expansion plans and compare costs based on over 2 million data points. Head to benchmark.telegeography.com to learn more.

Gluware Intent

Join the Packet Pushers  in New York City on Tuesday, May 14th for a live event with Gluware. This half-day event will feature technical talks on data center automation,  you’ll hear from Gluware customer Merck, and more. After the event you can mingle with your IT peers, Gluware hosts, and the Packet Pushers. Tickets are free but the spaces are limited. Get details and sign up at packetpushers.net/gluware.

Show Links:

Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon’s cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customers – CNBC

Corey Quinn Twitter Thread

Combating the Use of the Internet for Terroist and Violent Extremist Purposes – G7 (PDF)

Leaders of the G7: A Safer World Means Strong, Secure Communication – Internet Society

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors – Schneier on Security

Canada says Facebook broke privacy laws and ‘refused to act responsibly’ – The Guardian

News release: Facebook refuses to address serious privacy deficiencies despite public apologies for “breach of trust” – Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Take a Network Break! Today’s episode examines what CloudGenix’s $65 million VC infusion means for the SD-WAN market, discusses Nubeva’s new cloud-based packet processor, and parses FCC chair Ajit Pai’s recommendation to block China Mobile from providing telecom services in the United States.

Apple relents in a long-standing legal battle against Qualcomm just before the trial starts, a reporter outlines reasons to avoid first-generation 5G phones, and Fortinet settles with the United States for misleading government resellers.

Facebook reveals that it exposed millions, not thousands as previously stated, of Instagram accounts to internal employees; and Blackberry Messenger announces that the end has come for its consumer service.

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Show Links:

CloudGenix Announces $65 Million in Funding, 300% Year-Over-Year Growth and the Industry’s Largest Gen-1 SD-WAN Replacement – Globe Newswire

Analysts: SD-WAN 5-year annual growth rate tops 40% – Network World

Nubeva Launches New Prisms Service Processor with Elastic Packet Processing for Public Cloud Networks – Nubeva

Tech Bytes: Nubeva Enhances Cloud Packet Broker With New Processing Capabilities (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

FCC chief seeks to block China Mobile from operating in U.S. – Axios

Ajit Pai proposes blocking China-owned telecom from US phone market – Ars Technica

Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation – Apple

Qualcomm just beat Apple into submission – SemiAccurate

Why did Intel kill off their modem program? – SemiAccurate

Apple-Qualcomm deal reshapes U.S. chip business – Axios

Take a Network Break! We start with corrections from last week’s show (and please do send corrections, opinions, and responses to things we say).

Then we pivot to news from Google Next ’19 including Anthos for hybrid cloud, plus Cisco makes ACI available in AWS, and Juniper launches an SD-WAN service.

Sungard files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; a VPN flaw bites Palo Alto, Cisco, and Pulse Secure; and HPE and Nutanix partner around HCI.

Chef is going to an entirely open-source code base under an Apache 2.0 license, the law catches up to Julian Assange and the second incarnation of the Dread Pirate Roberts, and Yahoo makes an $117.5 million offer to settle its breach lawsuits.

Last but not least, we offer a cautionary tale of why you should bring a Wi-Fi scanner to your next AirBnB stay.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: TeleGeography

We’re also sponsored by TeleGeography,  a telecommunications market research firm. TeleGeography wants you to know about its  WAN Cost Benchmark. This is a tool that lets you model your hybrid WAN expansion plans and compare costs based on over 2 million data points. Head to benchmark.telegeography.com to learn more.

Show Links:

Correction: Satellite Broadband – YouTube

Correction: Citrix Layoffs: Reports of Citrix layoffs may be overblown – Tech Target

Introducing Anthos: An entirely new platform for managing applications in today’s multi-cloud world – Google

Anthos – Google

Powering enterprise transformation: Announcing new additions to Google Cloud Networking – Google Cloud Blog

ACI Anywhere Now Extending On-Premises to AWS Cloud – Cisco Systems

Cisco taps into AWS for data center, cloud applications – Network World

Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller – AWS Marketplace

Juniper Networks’ SD-WAN as a Service Reimagines the Enterprise Branch – Juniper Networks

Take a Network Break!

Aruba announces new 802.11ax APs and ClearPass software for device identification, Intel rolls out a slew of products for the data center including a new Ethernet adapter and a second-gen Xeon processor, and Amazon confirms plans to launch satellites for a broadband service.

Citrix releases an update on the breach it announced in March, Kemp Technologies gets acquired by a private equity firm, Google dissolves its AI Ethics panel, and Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 turns twenty.

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Show Links:

Aruba Simplifies Enterprise IoT Adoption with New Automated Security and Next-Gen Wireless Solutions – Aruba Networks

Intel Announces Broadest Product Portfolio for Moving, Storing and Processing Data – Intel

Is Intel’s “Innovation Day” Innovative Enough for Carrier Cloud? – CIMI Corp.

Tech Field Day : Intel Ethernet Technology Innovations – YouTube

Server Speed and Capacity for Business Application Demands – Cisco

Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation – GeekWire

Citrix mysteriously quiet amid whisperings of senior layoffs: Executives, teams logged out, it is claimed – The Register

Citrix provides update on unauthorized internal network access – Citrix Systems

Mill Point Capital Partners with Management to Acquire Kemp Technologies – Kemp Technologies

Mill Point Buys Kemp Technologies – Private Equity Professional

Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart – Vox

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Take a Network Break! Attackers infiltrate ASUS’s update servers to propagate malware to customers, Cisco gets caught issuing a lazy security patch for its RV320 and RV325 routers, and Huawei takes four years to fix vulnerable code.

Britain’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board gives Huawei poor marks for software engineering and security hygiene practices, AWS announces Voice Collector for toll bypass as part of its Chime collaboration package, and Microsoft rolls out Data Box hardware for hybrid Azure use cases.

Cisco launches Decibel, an independent venture capital firm to spur enterprise startups, OpenDaylight debuts the Neon release of its SDN controller, and a former startup employee takes some shine off the startup dream.

Citrix rebrands XenServer to Citrix Hypervisor, and Office Depot gets smacked with a $25 million fine from the FTC for scamming customers with crooked malware scans.

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ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

TechBytes: Arrcus And LSVR

Stay tuned after the news for a conversation about a new data center protocol, Link State Vector Routing (LSVR). We talk with sponsor Arrcus about how its ArcOS network operating system leverages LSVR to help you build a BGP-based data center fabric.

Show Links:

Malicious updates for ASUS laptops – Kaspersky Lab official blog

Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers – Motherboard

Hackers dropped a secret backdoor in Asus’ update software – TechCrunch

ASUS response to the recent media reports regarding ASUS Live Update tool attack – ASUS

How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack – Ars Technica

Cisco bungled RV320/RV325 patches, routers still exposed to hacks – ZDNet

Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it – The Register

Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2019 – Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board (PDF)

Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices – The Register

Take a Network Break! Facebook stored millions of user passwords in plaintext and made them accessible to thousands of employees, Nokia sinks significant money into IETF sponsorship, and the Ethernet Alliance moves forward on Single Pair Ethernet.

Google announces a new streaming gaming service, but bandwidth requirements may strain broadband connections, the open-source Putty project releases a new version of the software to address eight critical vulnerabilities, and Huawei becomes a certified hardware partner for Nutanix.

VMware and Dell EMC partner on hyperconverged infrastructure, Dell EMC tops the global server market while Huawei notches impressive growth, MySpace loses massive volumes of user files and it takes months for anyone to notice, and a network admin takes the password to a core switch to his grave.

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Tech Bytes: Nubeva

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored conversation with Nubeva. We’ll discuss the newest features in Nubeva’s cloud packet broker, Prisms, and how you can get packet-level visibility into your public cloud deployments.

Show Links:

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years – Krebs On Security

Facebook Mistakenly Stored ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of User Passwords as Plaintext – Motherboard

Keeping Passwords Secure – Facebook

Nokia Commits US$750K to Support the Work of the Internet Engineering Task Force – Nokia

Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) comes to town – Ethernet Alliance

Google Announces Stadia, a Video Game Streaming Service Designed to Change the Way Games Are Enjoyed – MacStories

Amazon Lumberyard: Features – AWS

PuTTY Releases Important Software Update to Patch 8 High-Severity Flaws – Hacker News

Download PuTTY: latest release (0.71) – PuTTY

Huawei and Nutanix Par...

Take a Network Break! Facebook announces new switches under the Open Compute Project banner, including support for Cumulus and a model from Arista.

F5 buys NGINX for $670 million, NVIDIA buys Mellanox for $6.9 billion, and Citrix investigates a possible breach of its corporate network.

Big Switch demonstrates a network OS that combines Open Network Linux and Sonic, Facebook suffers an outage across multiple platforms, and the city of Tel Aviv tests new crosswalk lights designed to catch the attention of people whose faces are glued to their smartphones.

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ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offer complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment.

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Show Links:

Reinventing our data center network with F16, Minipack – Facebook Code

Arista 7368X4 Series – Arista

NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next – NGINX

F5 Networks –4.9% as analysts eyeball Nginx purchase deal – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) – Seeking Alpha

A Letter to F5 Employees from CEO François Locoh-Donou Announcing NGINX Acquisition – F5

NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion – NVIDIA Newsroom

Nvidia to make largest acquisition in its history with $6.9 billion deal for Mellanox – MarketWatch

Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, claims cyber-biz – The Register

Citrix investigating unauthorized access to internal network – Citrix Blogs

Big Switch to Demo SONiC with Open Network Linux at OCP Global Summit – Big Switch

It’s alive! Big Switch stitches together an open-source Network Operating System – The Register

Tel Aviv tries out new crosswalk lights for cellular addicts – Reuters

Take a Network Break! We start the episode with a correction about previous commentary about DNSSEC, and then jump into the news.

Juniper Networks acquires the wireless startup Mist Systems for $405 million, VMware announces a new service-defined firewall, and an Alphabet-backed startup called Chronicle launches a new security analytics service that leverages Google’s search and data processing capabilities.

Comcast acquires security vendor BluVector, RightScale releases a cloud adoption survey, and Facebook announces modest plans to sell spare fiber capacity to local and regional telcos.

Greg weighs in on cyber insurance, and Huawei files a lawsuit against the United States alleging that the government’s ban against Huawei gear in government systems is unconstitutional.

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Show Links:

Juniper Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Mist Systems – J-Net Community

Juniper Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Mist Systems to Bring AI to IT, Delivering on Promise of Software-Defined Enterprise – Juniper Networks

Quick Take: Why Juniper Bought Mist Systems – Packet Pushers

VMware Introduces Industry’s First Service-defined Firewall to Help Better Protect Apps and Data On-Premises and In the Cloud – VMware

Chronicle Security – Technology Overview – Chronicle

Chronicle Releases Chapter One: Backstory – Dark Reading

Comcast Acquires BluVector, Developer of AI-Powered Cybersecurity Technology – Business Wire

State of the Cloud Report – RightScale

Building network infrastructure with fiber-optic cable – Facebook Code

Facebook Will Begin Selling Wholesale Fiber Capacity – Data Center Frontier

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