Network Break 343: Ericsson, Verizon Ink $8.3 Billion 5G Deal; Intel Reports Flat Revenues

Take a Network Break! We begin with a couple of follow-ups (and you can send us your own FU here), and then dive into Ericsson’s $8.5 billion deal to provide 5G gear to Verizon, discuss why Microsoft bought identity and entitlement management company CloudKnox (hint: it’s about cloud), and dig into research on flexible microprocessors and their potential impact on medical devices and packaging. An Akamai DNS update makes a whole bunch of Web sites unavailable, AWS cuts off access to its CloudFront service to NSO Group over spyware concerns, and Intel reports flat revenues for the second quarter of 2021. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Fortinet Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes conversation with sponsor Fortinet. We talk to a customer in the education sector who’s using multiple Fortinet products including firewalls, the firewall analyzer, end point security and Fortinet’s Security Fabric. Show Links: Inside Ericsson’s $8.3-Billion Deal with Verizon for 5G – Futuriom Ericsson and Verizon ink landmark multi-year $8.3 Billion 5G deal – Ericsson Samsung Electronics wins $6.6 billion Verizon order for network equipment – Reuters Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband, Explained – Verizon Microsoft’s Cyber Startup Spending Spree Continues with CloudKnox Acquisition – Tech Crunch Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management – Microsoft Realizing the Full Potential of the Internet of Things – Research Articles – Arm Research FlexLogIC – PragmatIC Websites back up after brief global outage linked to Akamai – Reuters Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and more went down in massive internet outage – The Verge