Episodes

  • NB494: AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Support; Verizon Spends $20 Billion for Frontier

    NB494: AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Support; Verizon Spends $20 Billion for Frontier
    Sep 9 2024
    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 spending $20 billion to buy Frontier, and new critical security patches from Cisco. ASML, which makes the machines that make high-end computer chips, gets antsy over US restrictions to China.... Read more »
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    32 mins
  • NB493: Cisco Acquires AI Startup to Police AI; Nvidia, Dell Ride GPU Profit Wave

    NB493: Cisco Acquires AI Startup to Police AI; Nvidia, Dell Ride GPU Profit Wave
    Sep 3 2024
    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 credentials, AT&T agrees to a fine of nearly $1 million for a network outage that affected 911 calls, and Intel and Broadcom tout integrated optics for more broadband... Read more »
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    50 mins
  • NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Robocalls

    NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Robocalls
    Aug 26 2024
    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 resiliency planning, and AMD spends nearly $5 billion to acquire systems engineering talent from ZT Systems. Juniper Networks offers deep discounts and other enticements to get network engineers to... Read more »
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    43 mins
  • NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chip Factories

    NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chip Factories
    Aug 19 2024
    Take a Network Break! Hackers may have stolen millions of US Social Security numbers, HPE acquires a multi-cloud management company, and Cisco announces plans to lay off 7% of its employees. Pure Storage joins industry efforts to make Ethernet suitable for AI workloads by signing on to the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Texas Instruments will add... Read more »
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    20 mins
  • NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the Bird

    NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the Bird
    Aug 12 2024
    Take a Network Break! This week we cover a judge’s ruling that Google is monopolist and potential outcomes, the HPE/Juniper acquisition clearing regulatory hurdles, and Microsoft flipping the bird at Delta’s legal threats. HPE Aruba Networking adds NDR for IoT devices, Fortinet fortifies its DLP capabilities via acquisition, Azure lets you stack logs in different... Read more »
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    27 mins
  • NB489: Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike; Intel to Fire 15,000 Employees

    NB489: Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike; Intel to Fire 15,000 Employees
    Aug 5 2024
    Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a proposed class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike, while Delta investigates options to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Microsoft Azure goes down after a DDoS defense error, campus switch sales are forecast to drop significantly in 2024, and DigiCert warns customers that an error it made will... Read more »
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    31 mins
  • NB488: CrowdStrike Bug Tester Was Buggy; Can Starlink Match US ISP Performance?

    NB488: CrowdStrike Bug Tester Was Buggy; Can Starlink Match US ISP Performance?
    Jul 29 2024
    Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on CrowdStrike and Microsoft, and then examine a CrowdStrike incident review in which the security company says a bug in its content validator meant that a problematic update was mistakenly validated. An insurance company estimates the CrowdStrike Windows crash will cost the Fortune 500 about $5... Read more »
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    45 mins
  • NB487: The BSODs Strike Back; SolarWinds Sorta Dodges SEC Bullets

    NB487: The BSODs Strike Back; SolarWinds Sorta Dodges SEC Bullets
    Jul 22 2024
    Take a Network Break! This week we cover the CrowdStrike/Microsoft patch debacle, why SolarWinds isn’t entirely out of trouble following a judge’s dismissal of most–but not all–of an SEC lawsuit, and why an AT&T breach revelation highlights third-party risk. Juniper announces an AI infrastructure testing lab and enhancements to its capabilities to operate AI infrastructure,... Read more »
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    48 mins