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On today's Network Break we cover Cisco's new certifications and its CCIE Routing and Switching replacement, analyze Intel's acquisition of Barefoot Networks, dive into new products from Arista, and more IT news.

Take a Network Break! Cisco makes significant changes to its certification programs, including retiring the CCIE Route & Switch; Cisco also announced plans to unify its collaboration apps; and Intel snaps up Barefoot Networks for its Tofino programmable ASIC.

Arista launches new campus switches and an 802.11ax AP, VMware buys Avi Networks for ADC and load balancing, and Salesforce picks up Tableau for a whopping $15.7 billion in stock.

Broadcom announced its Q2 financials, Huawei presents Verizon with a patent bill, the Black Hat conference takes fire for a politician keynote speaker, and a nuclear sub sinks because someone forgot to close a hatch.

Get links to all these stories below.

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Show Links:

Cisco Unleashes the Capabilities of the New Network – Cisco Systems

Cisco launches a developer-community cert program – Network World

The CCIE Times Are A Changing – Networking Nerd

CCNP Routing and Switching – Cisco

‘No More Islands’ Across Cisco Collaboration Portfolio, Tech Giant Says – CRN

Intel to Acquire Barefoot Networks, Accelerating Delivery of Ethernet-Based Fabrics – Intel Newsroom

Barefoot Networks – Crunchbase

Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy – The Next Platform

Arista Cognitive Cloud Networking Redefines the Campus – Arista Networks

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Avi Networks ...

The Packet Pushers' latest crash course podcast on wireless for wired engineers dives into beacons, roaming, SSIDs, the ugly reality of band steering, and more WLAN nerdery. Our guest is Chris Reed.

You know your frame from your packet. You can explain how bridging tables are populated. Ethernet is your friend from as far back as 100 meg half duplex regularly plagued your life.

Wireless? Not so much. This is a second podcast in a crash course series explaining wireless networking to people who are really good at wired networks.

My guest is Chris Reed, lead network engineer at BEI Networks. Today, we dive into beacons, probes, SSIDs, roaming, and the ugly reality of band steering.

If you’d like to hear the first entry in this series, check out episode 440.

Show Links:

Chris Reed on Twitter

Clear To Send Podcast Episode 123 – Design Principles of Stadium Wi-Fi

Clear To Send Podcast Episode 127 – Stadium WiFi Implementation

SSID Overhead Calculator – Revolution Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi Roaming Analysis Part 2 – Roaming Variations – Revolution Wi-Fi

Heavy Networking 440: A Wireless Deployment Crash Course – Packet Pushers

Shannon McFarland discusses IPv6 and container networking on today's IPv6 Buzz podcast episode. We look at the state of v6 support in containers and orchestration platforms, how v6 addressing works with containers, the role of service meshes, and much more.

There’s a lot of talk about serverless and DevOps, but what’s it like doing these things in production?

My guest Robb Schiefer is a .NET developer and Microsoft MVP.

He’s using AWS Lambda in production at a healthcare company, and employing DevOps principles to keep applications and services running.

We discuss:

* Why the organization went serverless instead of using PaaS or containers

* Serverless benefits, including scale, consumption-based pricing, and no OSs to upgrade

* The decision to go with AWS Lambda over Azure Functions

* Why they went with Azure DevOps as the tool suite

* How they use AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning

* The challenges of running serverless in production

* More

Show Links:

Robb Schiefer on Twitter

DotNet Catch – Robb Schiefer’s blog

Ned Bellavance on Twitter

There’s a lot of talk about serverless and DevOps, but what’s it like doing these things in production?

My guest Robb Schiefer is a .NET developer and Microsoft MVP.

He’s using AWS Lambda in production at a healthcare company, and employing DevOps principles to keep applications and services running.

We discuss:

* Why the organization went serverless instead of using PaaS or containers

* Serverless benefits, including scale, consumption-based pricing, and no OSs to upgrade

* The decision to go with AWS Lambda over Azure Functions

* Why they went with Azure DevOps as the tool suite

* How they use AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning

* The challenges of running serverless in production

* More

Show Links:

Robb Schiefer on Twitter

DotNet Catch – Robb Schiefer’s blog

Ned Bellavance on Twitter

What's it like using serverless in production? We answer that question in this Day Two Cloud podcast with guest Robb Schiefer, who's running a live application on AWS Lambda for a healthcare company. We talk about why the organization adopted serverless, how they chose AWS, and how DevOps practices are key for ongoing operations.

On today's Network Break we dive into Google's self-inflicted outage, examine Apple's new HomeKit partnerships and Sign In, discuss the IEEE's reversal on Huawei, and parse other IT and tech news bits.

Take a Network Break! Internal misconfigurations at Google led to significant disruption to popular services including YouTube, Apple announced HomeKit integrations with security cameras and home routers for tighter security, and launched a new sign-in service to compete with Facebook and Google.

The IEEE unbanned Huawei reviewers from pre-publication technical papers, a British security official calls Huawei software “shoddy” (and doesn’t have good things to say about its competitors’ software either), and Firefox amps up its privacy features.

We discuss just how much funding U.S. telecos get from the government, Cisco acquires industrial security controls company Sentryo, and Google spends billions to buy analytics purveyor Looker.

Arista announces a new switch family and a Wi-Fi 6 AP, and Microsoft partners with Axe on an Xbox-branded line of soaps and deodorants.

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Show Links:

An update on Sunday’s service disruption – Google

Google Outage Sharpens Focus on Cloud Network Reliability – Data Center Frontier

Apple enables HomeKit support for home security cameras and routers – The Verge

Sign In With Apple – Apple

At WWDC 2019, Apple touts Sign In as convenient without privacy hit – CNET

Apple created the privacy dystopia it wants to save you from – Fast Company

IEEE says it may have gone about things the wrong Huawei, lifts ban after US govt clearance – The Register

Huawei must raise ‘shoddy’ standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official – The Guardian

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