Network Break 264: Broadcom’s New Tomahawk 4 Hits 25.6Tbps; Juniper Announces SD-LAN For EX Switches

Take a Network Break! We start with a heap of FU on DNS over HTTPS, IT leadership, and more. On the tech news front, Broadcom ships its fastest-ever ASIC: the Tomahawk 4 reaches 25.6 terabits per second, twice as fast as the previous Tomahawk generation. Juniper Networks announces a new CTO from Google Cloud, and Juniper rolls out cloud control of its EX switches and new CPE gear. Palo Alto Networks reports its Q1 2020 financial results. Sponsor: Pilot Fiber Pilot Fiber is an ISP that actually cares about customers. Pricing is all-inclusive, no contracts, fast setup and installation, local support and construction teams. Friendly neighborhood internet experts. And by the way, Pilot’s looking for technical pros who share their passion for driving an unprecedented end-to-end experience. Find out more at pilotfiber.com/packetpushers. Sponsor: ThousandEyes ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt. Tech Bytes: Silver Peak Stick around after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Silver Peak. We’ll talk SD-WAN with customer, the Vitec Group, about their global SD-WAN rollout, how they’re migrating off MPLS, and the changes they’re getting in application performance. Show Notes: FU: Packet Pushers Holiday Edition December 18, 2019 UK ISP group names Mozilla ‘Internet Villain’ for supporting ‘DNS-over-HTTPS’ – ZDNet Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS – Ars Technica DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) Section 9 – IETF DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) Section 3 – IETF DNS over HTTPS – Publicly Available Servers – GitHub News: Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 4, Industry’s Highest Bandwidth Ethernet Switch Chip at 25.6 Terabits per Second – Broadcom Juniper Networks Appoints New Chief Technology Officer – Juniper Networks Newsroom Bikash Koley – LinkedIn Juniper Networks Expands Enterprise Portfolio with Cloud-Managed SD-LAN and New CPE Devices – Juniper Networks